03.11.2009 00:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Intel pushes the turbo to new heights

Ten days or so ago, we explained the operation of the Turbo mode of the Core i5 and Core i7 processors of the iMac. In short, Intel does not focus any more on frequency, but within the more general framework of the maximum thermal envelope of a processor and authorizes overclocking more or less according to the load of each one of their cores. Thus, the Core i7 runs normally at 2,8 GHz but can under certain conditions reach 3,46 GHz.However Intel now seems to want to go even further in this process, and even for low consumption processors. The Core i7 640UM will be certainly the processors that breaks some records. Originally running at 1,2 GHz, it will be nevertheless able to push the frequency of one of its cores to 2,26 GHz. However its

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