Will the upcoming Yonah's rated clock speed mean anything?The Inq reports that the upcoming Yonah processor will not only lower its rated clockspeed for energy savings, it will under certain unnamed circumstances raise its clock speed.
You read right. Sometimes the chip will overclock itself.
As the Inq points out, this makes a fine mess of relying on clock frequency; as the chip that you may purchase with a nominal 2.16GHz rating can clock itself down to say 1.08GHz to save power, and might under some circumstances clock itself up to 2.33GHz or higher.
Will chips now come with a labeled speed range? Or a "Turbo" overclock frequency?
Ofcourse this also makes a mish-mash of Intel's attempts at stopping overclocking; after all if it overclocks itself, it can hardly blame hobbyists for doing the same!
I don't know about y'all... but I long for the old days... when multipliers were unlocked, and no artifical speed limits placed on processors or motherboards. Why don't processor manufacturers have some OTP rom (one time programmable) in the processors that the BIOS can read for the "Official speed"?
