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AMD announces Turbo CORE for upcoming desktop CPUs

• bitwize 17y ago
  "Turbo" fell off PCs sometime in the mid-nineties when all the games which relied on a 4.77MHz clock were well and thoroughly obsolete. I don't want to see it get back on again, in any form, especially since I do most of my computing mobilely these days and battery life/power consumption is more critical to me than pure raw unbridled performance.
  • MichaelGG 17y ago
    These types of Turbo, well, Intel's moreso, helps you conserve power. Consider the mobile i7 quad core line. It starts at only 1.6 ghz - but in single core mode can hit near 3 ghz. This helps you get the performance you need for single threaded apps (hint: a lot of stuff), while not having to power 4 or more cores on all the time.