On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:54 AM, David Brodbeck <g...@gull.us> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) > <svein-listm...@stillbilde.net> wrote: > > You did read the "symmetric" part of "symmetric multi processor" didn't > you? > > > > It's a limitation of the technology. One clock. > > I don't think that's quite true. The newer Intel server chipsets have > the ability to throttle back idle cores and boost the speed of active > ones, to improve performance on single-threaded workloads. >
AMD has similar technology on the Phenom's as well. I'm not sure how factually accurate the following link's assessment is but it's a good read either way. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3641/amd-divulges-phenom-ii-x6-secrets-turbo-core-enabled Mark _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
