Quote Originally Posted by Ghostbuster View Post
Games still can hardly use all 6 cores. I think he meant going the way which Intel did with ClarksField, using SMT. Using 3 cores with SMT would have reduced the die size, lower the TDP and can go for higher clock speed as well as higher Turbo.

This caught my eye -> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...fx,2613-9.html
i dont think if amd went the SMT route, would automatically get higher clocks. and lets face the fact its a little too late to rethink phenom, lol, its only 2 something years old, might as well be a senior citizen in the tech industry

and the turbo working on only 3 cores is very limiting in certain games. i think we need to see a good list of duel core and quad optimized games and compare them to a 955 (because the 955 and 1090T both run at 3.2 stock) so we should see a very obvious increase, or near identical.

the good news is AMD Overdrive is able to let the user set how many cores can turbo (im 90% sure of this) so people can simply set it to 4 cores, deal with 15 more watts of heat, and see 400-500 more mhz in any game.

i would have really preferred in AMD did let 4 cores use turbo in x6, and leave it at 2 cores for x4 chips. 3 overclocked cores might as well have been left at 2, and get an extra 100mhz out of it, cause honestly how many applications take advantage of 3, nothing i can think of realistically. even if amd let 4 cores turbo, the TDP would be higher, but i dont think it would have been high enough to break the 125W TDP they set, unless if 6 cores at stock was atleast 115W.