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Old 12th April 2009
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Originally Posted by vermaden View Post
You need to know that Intel's Core 2 Quad is nothing more then two Core 2 Duo dies put together on one die and connected by a FSB link, so cores 1 and 2 "talk" to eash other thru L2 Cache while cores 1 and 3 "talk" to eash other by FSB bus, its pretty fscked up desing without any smart designs and sollutions, pure brute force, two dual cores thrown together to serve as a quad core, this is because you got only two instead of four Intel SpeedSteps messages.
Ah, yes. The non-monolithic design. I was aware of that, but I never would have thought that it would have anything to do which my situation.

So, are you telling me that I have no issue with EIST? If so, is there a way I can verify that in FBSD?

Last edited by Android1; 12th April 2009 at 09:08 PM. Reason: Improved wording in the last line.
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