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    Turbo Mode on Clarksfield, speculation

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by IntelUser, May 13, 2009.

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    Though Turbo Mode isn't a significant boon to the heavy OCers, rest of the people will benefit a lot from it. It's a critical step to reduce the sacrifices you have to make between single thread performance and multi-core performance. The current enthusiast "Bloomfield" Core i7's do not feature high clock speed boosts with Turbo Mode as its aimed at enthusiasts, which overclock their CPUs anyway.
    The more mainstream Lynnfield and notebook quad core Clarksfield are set to change all that. Currently these are the rumored lineups for quad core Clarksfield notebook CPUs.

    Base Clock: 2.0GHz Turbo Clock: 2.13GHz QC/2.53GHz DC/2.93GHz SC TDP: 35W
    BCLK: 1.73GHz TCLK: 1.86GHz QC/2.26GHz DC/2.66GHz SC TDP: 35W
    BCLK: 1.6GHz TCLK: 1.73GHz QC/2.13GHz DC/2.53GHz SC TDP: 35W

    I see yet another model coming that is hinted, but not arriving with the top 3 models. It was perplexing to me that the presentations always put 45/55W TDP figures for Clarksfield, yet the rumored models are 35W.

    BCLK: 2.26GHz TCLK: 2.4GHz QC/2.8GHz DC/3.2GHz SC TDP: 55W
     
    IntelUser, May 13, 2009
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