Comments on: Underclocking an AMD Phenom II X4 or Intel Core I7

By: Da

Da — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:14:48 +0000

Actually your CPU controls your CPU. Modern CPUs decrease their speed when they’re not under load.

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:06:28 +0000

Thank you, revan05. The link to the AMD Overdrive OC manual can be found at http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_overdrive.aspx. Furthermore, the Memory controller, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_controller, is new to me. It seems that AMD and Intel are moving towards putting whatever they can onto the CPU chip. Therefore, revan05 is correct. The newer CPU's have a Northbridge built into the CPU to remove the delay in communication between the CPU and the RAM.

By: revan05

revan05 — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:23:20 +0000

I think that in the gigabyte manual they mean the northbridge on the cpu transfers mem data, not the nb(790fx) on the motherboard. This is a frequently used misconception regarding the term “northbridge”, as one learns from reading the AMD Overdrive OC manual.