New Intel C2D 'Santa Rosa' - Enhanced Dynamic Acceleration Technology

[Mr. Smith]

"We call this processor Core 2 Duo but really it's Core 2 Duo on steroids. This microprocessor is going to be more powerful than the previous generation," said Intel's mobility chief, Mooly Eden.

The new chips will be able to overclock one of the cores if the other core is not being used.

"The idea is the following," explained Eden. "If you are running a single threaded application, one of the cores can go to sleep, and the left over power can be used by the other core - we give it a turbo boost; the ability to run faster than it used to.

"This is not overclocking. Overclocking is when you take a chip and increase its clock speed and run it out of spec. This is not out of spec. Here, it is within the spec of the dual-cores, we just identify when one core is not using the headroom and we give it to the other core.

"This is called Enhanced Dynamic Acceleration Technology. We've had problems implementing it, but we've been able to do it in Santa Rosa," Eden said.

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[Bogel]

O_O Sounds neat

 

[duktayp]

so you technically couldnt oc thic cpu? if you oc'd it to its limits, then it automatically overclocks itself, that sounds like trouble! unless you'd turn that feature off... which you probably wouldnt want to do...

 

[Mr. Smith]

so you technically couldnt oc thic cpu? if you oc'd it to its limits, then it automatically overclocks itself, that sounds like trouble! unless you'd turn that feature off... which you probably wouldnt want to do...

I don't think that is what would happen. (I could be wrong)

"This is not overclocking. Overclocking is when you take a chip and increase its clock speed and run it out of spec. This is not out of spec. Here, it is within the spec of the dual-cores, we just identify when one core is not using the headroom and we give it to the other core.

So, I beleive that you could OC in the usual way and this feature would still function...

 

[Nagaru]

This is really a cool feature, basically the best of both worlds. The only thing that scares me is that they are talking about extra power, I hope we are not going to be seeing huge power usage again.

 

[Rastalovich]

Are they talking about, taking all the crap out of the schpiel, u`r chip is clocked at 2Ghz, if the one `core` is bumping along doing nothing in particular it`ll use like 500Mhz and the one thrashing can use 1500Mhz if desired. (probably all confiurable)

 

[equk]

Hmm

It sounds ok, but isn't it just like a advanced version of speedstepping

I would be dubious that (as said above) intel will make this a non user controlable feature and so stop anyone from overclocking the chips.

speedstepping+486 turbo button

 

[PP Mguire]

486 turbo button

All this sounded like to me cept a better automatic one i guess.

 

[Joe]

not overclocking .. reallocating bus bandwidth .. rite? 1 core = 99% of bus bandwidth used by 2 cores