Intel are re-introducing the PC Turbo Mode! Yay!

by Gregory Brine

OK, so it’s not the same method used in older machines where you could flick a turbo button and double your processor speed, but it is a turbo boost to the chip. The latest chips are multi-core, but also able to have cores turned on and off, which will save power and boost performance.

Some friends and I - being the geeks we are - were reminiscing over that classic piece of computer history. Why did they ever remove it? Think about that for a second. I guarantee that 95% of the time, you’re not using all the power on the chip, so why not save power and slow it down? Makes sense to me!

Reading the background on these chips, they sound pretty awesome! Improved everything… That’s a little broad but they better at everything! Speed, power consumption, 3D (apparently twice the performance), better caching and memory handling. Have they missed anything? Read the specs on that site. There’s more to it than that, but that’s a pretty impressive so far! Role on 2009…

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