@Leeghoofd: Are turbo modes (all-cores-on one and max one) enabled and working right? Better check for it directly (clocks during tests)! Perhaps it's not enough to enable it in the BIOS. There is a CPU driver to be installed, I mean...
Sounds interesting...
Could be also a microcode update. AFAIK it's a very low-level (non-x86) code that is downloaded into the CPU at POST from BIOS and modifies the workings of certain parts.If there is any truth to this then it might be OS scheduling problem or a platform(bios?) problem. But don't get your hopes high.
(Wouldn't want to be in the place of those programmers now who are working on it 24/7... Even less if they are trying to catch some f...ing bugs... You know, the stress, almost no sleeping for days because of the adrenaline, and all... Brrr... Cheers to them!)
Win7's scheduling also needs some adjustments (to say the least), but I doubt an update for it will come in a week (if ever).
You mean from the 4.
Sure... Wouldn't think at all that the current performance fits their intentions and plans. There must be some little flaw that's hindering it. Unless they've seriously missed something fundamental, but I wouldn't think that either.
Can't wait how it pans out in the end... Stirring...
How much? Isn't it uarch that basically determine frequency, rather than the process (in normal circumstances, I mean the latter being neither bad nor something wonderful).
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