It’s a small feature in most AMD processors, which allows the core to halve its core speed and reduce its voltage considerably. I’m happy today coz’ I just figured out how to get it up and running. When I bought my motherboard (ASUS A8N-E), I got the drivers for the processor and the display application for displaying the frequency in real-time. Well, the frequency remained stuck at 2 Ghz (I have a AMD 64 3200+).
Then I read an article at hardwaresecrets.com, which said that in Windows, you had to go to Power Options and select ‘Minimal Power Management’. I really have to hand it to those guys. Full credit to them.
June 22, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Nice. Welcome to the AMD Brotherhood my friend. Onkur Banerjee, Prashanth Kanduri, Akshay Varma, Roshan Shariff, and many other geeks throughout Delhi are the illustrious members of this community.
So, still with the socket-939 wala AMD 64 eh?
I am looking forward to Phenom (TM) and the Fusion desktop processors. Nice to see that AMD and ATi have decided to OSS their system drivers…
Best hai AMD, baaki sab GMD!
June 22, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Need to note that AMD HAS lost its edge recently because, but hell, I like their high IPC philosophy. Even I’m waiting to Fusion for an upgrade.
July 5, 2007 at 2:04 pm
sorry can i knoe what is the diffrent between amd turion64 x2 n intel core duo n core 2 duo. are amd run same just like intel
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