Replies to post #55013 on Intel Corp (INTC)

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AMD Phenom TLB Patch Benchmarked and Explained

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/618/2/

Legit Bottom Line: AMD fails to communicate a performance crushing erratum to the media. They then provide motherboard companies a BIOS fix with, but there is no way to disable the BIOS workaround. AMD then releases new OverDrive versions that can disable it with a mystery 'turbo' button.


This is funny. A "Turbo" button that disables the performance degrading patch. It's now a "feature", just like you predicted, Windsock. You can choose "slow" or "buggy", your choice. It's an example of AMD Customer Centric Innovation.

I also liked this line:

We asked AMD if they could go into more details on what exactly these settings are doing, but it has been days and they have not commented. To be honest we have asked more than one person in AMD what these settings do and either they don't know or don't reply....

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Absolutely and I have no idea what Ron was talking about I was just joking :) I do think it would have been out sooner if there were 45nm problems.