Quote Originally Posted by Blauhung View Post
I'm not 100%, but I'm pretty sure it's not power based downclocking, it's merely the basis for when turbo mode is allowed to kick. The override on the 965 allows you to set that limit so that turbo mode functions nearly all the time when the cpu is in use. On the locked chips, turbo mode only kicks in when this headroom is available. There is no forced thermal throttling when these chips reach this point, just turbo mode won't kick in.

OC'ing will still work, just if you get close to the TDP, you probably won't get that extra oomph to kick in.
Ahh, well that seems much more reasonable and logical. So Tom's sound like they dramatized what this was. If i can push my chip to 3.8, I m not really going to miss my turbo that much hehe good that this seems a lot clearer now