wtf, this make no sense at all? are you on drug or something?

I'm still trying to make sense of this article...

Huh? A physical button on your motherboard? Seriously re-write the article for human comprehension.

I think the article is referring to the new "Turbo" button that is making a comeback. I think I read somewhere this will be a retro feature to increase performance when needed. I think it is MSI that will start using this feature. What did you guys find so hard to understand about the article?

Ummm, Weren't the BE Chips already Unlocked?

Now lets hope Intel doesn't roadkill the rabbit...
The Turbo button, now that's a thing I don't miss that at all!

Do you mean that the CPU speed is depending on the motherboard? For example, a 2.5GHz CPU on an $80 board is 2.5GHz, 2.6GHz on a $150 board and 2.7GHz on a $200 board.

lolocaust on a stick

yeah. where are these extra pins? are they in the mobos? I don't get it at all.

Black Edition Phenom at 2.8GHz? I've heard no word of such a beast. Theo gets too excited. Lay off the AMD Cool Aid.

lol this is awesome, makes it sound like a Nitrous Oxide button in a car or something.

wow... wtf?
rewrite this article please

Ok...it's not nice to play with our emotion's like that!

But if this turn's out to be true and offer's some kind of performance increase then maybe i will not buy the new Intel offering's and stay with AMD?

What the Hell...?
That article is just way over my head... Can you tell it in simple terms...?
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"It just does not get any more better than this." ????

Sounds more like a sales pitch than an impartial article. Are you long on AMD stock?

I guess we just should not expect too much from the author of this article, after all he's originally from The Inquirer.

all your turbo buttons are belong to us...

-c

hmmm ...the Inquirer does suck...

"It just does not get any more better than this." More better??? Please learn English or even American English and then re-write this sad excuse for an article.

so let me get this.. somehow.. AMd has a plan up its sleeve to sell "crippled" cpu for people to think they couldnt overclock or go further than 3ghz, BUT, now they will release the motherboards with the capability tounlock the hidden feature and overclock past what they wherent suposed to do.... SHIT THE FUCK

OK on the good side, this means that we can actually buy 3.6 GHZ PHENOMS (given we use the right mobos/cpus combos)

What next? File off the pins and the Phenom will work in an LGA1336 board?

Thanks Theo.

As usual your in front of the other hacks.

I notice that you and Charlie and Fuad still get the news days in front of the rest of the journo's around.

See their whmperings above ... pipped again at the post !!!

heh heh

I agree. Everyone I knew left the turbo button on all the time. It reminds me of "This is Spinal Tap":

This amp goes to 11!
Couldn't you just make 10 louder?
But this one goes to 11.

I imagine the clock increases are related to the memory dividers...remember those who were running a 6000x2 with a 3ghz clock had thier 800mhz memory speed rounded down to 750mhz because odd dividers were't allowed? But despite things like that AMD still managed 25% memory performance with that $180 chip than Intels $1500 chip.

I don't really recall the "turbo button", but i do recall the dip switches for manually setting the cpu multiplier...the Socket A gigabyte GA700x2 was one such board. Those were annoying to rely on alone, but were more stable in some instances then bios changes.

Guess we'll have to wait and see....howeveri feel i must say this again...AMD/ATI cpus/gpus are for 64bit vista/DX10 games.

Intel/nvidia is for people who want to spend $4000 on a new rig every 4 months running 32bit xp/vista and bragging about thier 700fps in doom3

Why is everyone so confused by this article.....it really couldn't be more straight forward. the new mobos with the new chips give you a small automatic OC. that wasn't so hard was it guys?

The point with that turbo button was to slow down the PC to be more compatible with really old games(other software) that didn't have any means of limiting the games speed. With fast hardware those games would have been impossible to play, everything would have happened way too fast. Some games would even crash completely... this was back on the 286/386/486 era or there abouts...

Apparently nobody had seen the adds for the Lenovo 3000 K100 desktop systems that have a "Turbo" mode button very prominently positioned on the front of the system. I am sure they are not the only ones that are going to offer this "turbo/auto/cool" setup, because everyone has become so energy conscious.

you would think that with this free upgrade to 2.8/3.0/3.2ghz, AMD would just release said processors at those speeds instead. i foresee massive RMA's due to "faulty" motherboards because the cpu cant play at those speeds. if AMD can pull it off, well then cool. we need someone to put pressure on intel. if they fall on their face.........again......they take yet another PR hit.

LOl stop being cheap, just by an Inel and stop torturing the small helpless animal that is AMD

uhhhhhhh? what is this article saying? ive never heard about running any phenom stably @ 2.8ghz. How is the speed gonna be upgraded? is it a downloadable update? "Now we just need to know how this overclocking feature will compare to Intel’s processors" the q6600 can go up to 3.6, 3.4 easily! And we know intel is faster clock for clock. AMD is gonna pull an ace outta its sleeve only to find out intel has the other 4...