Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
That or in single thread mode the Turbo on the old i7 is ridiculously high while in MT mode it is only one bin.With SB,the Turbo in single thread mode is maybe lower but it kicks in aggressively in MT mode providing the performance gains of 6x or 7x. Also you can see in my previous post that there are numerous 5100+ results on 32bit win7 OS for the i7 Q720. Q720 Turbo with 3-4 loaded cores is 1.73Ghz while for 1 core it's 2.8Ghz.
It could be that the single-thread SB turbo is not yet working to its ideal aggressive setting, true. Doubt that there is much turbo in the multithreaded case for either part, I expect the gains have to do with the extra load port given to SB. They did promise HT improvements.