Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
The thermal diode is not disabled in Denebs,that would never happen BTW.I don't know what Francois was thinking when he said that..
It is just calibrated so that it doesn't lock the chip when temp. drops below certain level or go above certain level.That's all.The thermal monitoring works and is not disabled like Francois claims.This was achieved with some changes in design + a big change in manufacturing(apart from smaller node AMD ,for the first time,applied DFM strategy for it's first gen. 45nm parts,which cuts costs and improves yields).
Francois wasn't talking about Denebs, he was talking about Nehalems. Francois gave instructions to FUGGER on how to disable the temperature sensor on Nehalem to make sure Nehalem wouldn't crap out under extreme clocks and extreme cooling. Now he will pretty much have to tell everyone how to do such tricks, otherwise it would be a useless achievement to be able to clock it that high while nobody else can.