new way to play with Phenom X4: 4 cores, 4 frequencies!

[RPGWiZaRD]

this will be a nice feature for sure. but it would be kinda annoying if your core1/2 hits significantly lower clocks than your core3/4 - and you're playing games that are only optimized for 1 or 2 cores hehe.
in this case it would be cool to change the order the cores are used =D (or is that already possible somehow?)

That's the idea of setting affinity. Of course that would be a pain in the arse to set all the time but I'm sure we'll see a nifty software that would make this much easier. But perhaps we also see some software from AMD or some1 else yet that allows you to specify in which order the cores should be utilized, then disabling cores wouldn't be required.

If core 2 and 4 for example clocks significantly higher you would use those by setting affinity to core 2 and 4 and turn of the others. This is useful though only as long as things doesn't improve over 2 cores. Well you could also of course do the same for single threaded apps, just use the core that clocks highest and for apps that would use 3 cores you could at least disable the core that clocks worst.

So yea independent core frequency adjustment is a quite nice feature. It will give you better chance of reaching better results in a non 4-core utilizing application vs a normal quad core CPU without this feature.

So except power consumption saving it should give a garantuee of slightly better performance in apps that utilizes no more than 3 cores max as long as it's not core4 that is the worst clocking core. Should also be quite interesting to see how much the max clock results varies between the cores on the same CPU.