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Old Oct 21, 2009, 11:18 AM   #15
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Do you know the exact mechanisms for how the [turbo+thermal managment] feature works? Is there a complex lookup table which basically manages the turbo multiplier based on core utilisation (backend and frontend instruction pipe)? Or is it fully "live and dynamic" thermally managed? Or a mix of both?

What happens when a stable idle OC (like above) gets attacked with some heavy crunch number? Will the turbo+thermal management cut back to maintain stability, and to what level, or will the CPU operate beyond the planned TDP and possibly fail? Curious.
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