Read more.A lowering of TDP means new revision of the six-core chip should overclock like a champ.
Read more.A lowering of TDP means new revision of the six-core chip should overclock like a champ.
Amazing achievement on 45nm.
I found this an interesting read:
Odd about the TDP not necessarily being the maximum power draw. For laptops especially, if I buy a laptop, I want to know I can use it to its full potential (e.g. Folding, should I so desire, or perhaps more likely video encoding) without it dying in a horrific ball of fire and molten plastic because the cooling wasn't up to the actual power dissipation needed.Originally Posted by wikipedia
Any idea what improvements they made to reduce the TDP? Or just by binning chips?
How did they do that??!! I wonder whats gonna happen when they go to 32nm
AMD will tell you it's a combination of improvements in the manufacturing process, leading to better yields, augmented by binning.
Whatever else, six cores at 2.8GHz, plus Turbo Core, is pretty damn good.
The lower TDP didn't result in higher overclocks on the Q9550S.
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for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
We have one coming in soon. Will put it to the test and you good folk know.
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either way I suppose it will save you some money, I cant wait to see the review
PLEASE DO!
I'm still on a Q6600 mildly overclocked. It's the longest I've had a CPU in my main workstation - since 2007! - and it's been a champ. But between 3Delight and Ableton Live my requirements have risen and it just isn't enough any more. Previously the 1055T hasn't looked like such a good option purely down to power consumption. If this brings it down by a sizeable amount, I might just have to change back to AMD...
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Looks like I may go back to AMD and years with intel due to these, but my Q9550 is still going strong so no rush.
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Not precisely, but for all intents and purposes, you may as well say TDP=E.
Reducing TDP is basically a function of reducing resistance in the ICs, and there's numerous ways of doing that. Usually by shortening pipelines, improving efficiency of the transistor layout, and whatnot.
Ah right, thanks for the info
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