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    @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...

    Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
    This was posted by Dresdenboy some time ago:
    http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showp...&postcount=824
    Sounds interesting...

    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.
    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.

    (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).

    Quote Originally Posted by EniGmA1987 View Post
    Its 3 modules and 6 threads for the FX-6100. A single module is disabled from the 8's
    You mean from the 4.

    Quote Originally Posted by PerryR View Post
    I still say something doesn't add up
    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...

    Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
    and be capable of higher frequencies than the original Thuban.
    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).
    Last edited by dess; 10-06-2011 at 11:52 PM.

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