Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
BUT..BUT what about those of us that don't want any powersaving anything turned on.My machines run at 100% load 24/7/365.25...

Although I have a pair of L5630 32nm quads that I'm testing in my SM X8DA3 board right now and seeing 175w usage(8C/16T@2130MHz) on a kill-a-watt is very pleasing to my wallet!
well, let s say for example that you run a non optimized code, like PhysX (lol) where the code is only using x87 ... or scalar SSE for the x64 version (low 64 bit), then, Nehalem architecture will turn off the high part of the execution unit, and save power to give you more frequency using Turbo ... helping to maximize your experience and processing power. In the case of overclockers, well, when you OC, those features mostly turn off when they are tuned well ... and this is where we go back to the point that tunning needs to be done and applied right.
early proto stepping never get the final tuning.