Quote Originally Posted by Tonucci View Post
From what I've seen, the multis will go up a few notches, even in cheaper models, due to the turbo mode mechanics. Only fully unlocked extreme edition models can up the multi beyond what turbo mode can do. Looks like base frequency can be adjusted too, but very limited. But eh good thing is, the multis will be soo high even @ stock, that an slight base frequency increase will yield nice clock improvements.

Of course i may be wrong, but thats what some credible guys have said/implied.
I have this bad feeling that there are gonna be some very dead CPU's because of this old FSB mindset and way of thinking. I've seen lots of new options on ref boards, and who knows what boards like the Asus enthusiasts boards will have in there.

This thing is a completely different CPU. It is not like anything before it. If you go in there thinking I'll bump the voltage and jack the FSB (which there isn;t one any longer) up I really get the impression that folks are gonna be in for a shock. There are a myriad of sttings on just the reference board, and who knows what settings relate to what, and what settings influence others.

That IMC also throws a new curve ball into the mix. It's brand new. There's never been anything like it, and I've read things like "it'll work just like AMD's did" which has turned out not to be the case. It's that thinking that this CPU is like past technology. I really hope I don;lt see one of these killed due to that thinking. That would be enough to make a grown man cry to finally get all that stuff, and then start pecking around in the BIOS and end up with the black screen of death.

That's why I'm being very careful to hold back until I see some real official info posted on this thing about how it *really* works and what makes it tick. I've seen alot of rumors posted that turned out to be really bad info. Alot of it stemmed from Fud (which I Ignore), but some of it was posted from Anandtech and that really concerns me. I really belived Intel had a memory issue when it fact that was totally bogus. In fact the majority of these rumors have tunred out to be not true, so that leaves us with not every much except the stuff from IDF's.