Quote Originally Posted by ajaidev View Post
As i have said before the main features of sandy bridge as a whole is turbo and power saving. The high end sandy bridge will have better c2c execution than the current gulftown but that is not the whole plan. Imagine a bloomfield with a turbo like you find on the lynfield and to top it of the benefits of the new system agent.

I cant stress enough the importance of system agent and another monitoring system in sandy bridge and the future cpu's.
What is the "other monitoring system" to which you refer? You mean the temp/power monitoring aspects of the turbo control?

"system agent" : that's the northbridge including IMC. Was there really that much more performance to wring out of that portion?

BTW, why was lynnfield's turbo so much better than bloomfield's?