Nehalem-EP......BLOOMFIELD

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nehalems overclocks automatically, even to 3.4 ghz or more, so the inflated benchmarks corresponds to overclocked processors and that explains the 130 tdp, even for the 2.6ghz processor.

i think this is not good for (dirty) intel. using overclocking to improve results."

source; vr-zone from (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Tur...ntel,6193.html , http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...9455&Itemid=35 )

wow wow wow!
If you don't mind, The architect of the processor designed it to take advantage of the thermal "room" we have on the socket. it is not cheating or anything like you are saying, it is being smarter about thermal. Today's processors are very stupid in that sense, an opteron or a Yorkfield does not increase the frequency, even if it could, because it has room when not using 4 threads ... on single threaded program, 3 cores are in C6 states. Why giving penalty to the single threaded performance, because the Max power of 4 cores. PCU + Turbo fix this.
If you have a program using 4 threads, but not using a lot of thermals, because using a tight loop in the L1 (not using a lot of transistors), why not raising the frequency of 1 or 2 steps if your process technology allow you to do so and PAST EVERY QUALITY TEST !!!!



Using the thermal envellope in a better way is very smart, all other x86 makers are stock at their thermals because of the 4 cores max power.

On the top of this, Nehalem has Power gating for each Core, we can reduce the power usage to a neglisable quantity, it would have be foolish to implement this without the PCU (Power Controle Unit)

The Architect of Nehalem invested a lot of time in the PCU, it has more transistor than the original i80486 ... just to give you the scale.

the PCU and its reward will give nehalem an edge on all small form factor PC, it will allow you to overclock, it will make sure you minimize your carbon foot print.

nothing related to cheating, it is a new features that will save millions of tonnes of carbon, for Fudo ... it is Fudo ... what do you expect from "FUD"zilla ... some FUD , no?
and for Tomshardware ... well, this is a long serie of innacurate articles due to the fact the dresden fab is not doing the same ...

PS: This is my personal opinion for the conclusion ...