Quote Originally Posted by kemo View Post
That is something and others are trying to find an excuse that Phenom could consume less power
but interesting to note that PII/C2Q in Crysis uses 70+W more than CPU test while I7 uses 45W or less more on Crysis , i thought all 3D and CPU results should be linear , But i was wrong
the reason for that is simple, artificial cpu tests are stressing the cpu to the max (eg. prime with 8 threads).

Games on the other hand dont stress all cores on Ci7 so the PCU shuts down not needed parts.

I hope AMDs next cpu has something similar to intel PCU.