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I’ve seen numerous good reviews of the GA-P55-UD3R which put it top of my list of relatively cheap P55 boards. There is also the GA-P55A-UD3R which adds SATA3 and USB3 at a slightly higher price.

Wrong again. CPU driver does not matter, he uses another software, designed to override the CPU driver. Cool'n'Quiet is rather limited, no adjustments.

smilingcrow wrote: Rebellious wrote: Idle vcore is 0.975 both stock and overclocked. My 3.7GHz is a straight multiplier overclock 200x18.5 at 1.425 volt. Cool'n'Quiet and C1E are both enabled, the only difference when overclocked is that CPU max p-state jumps to 3.7GHz/1.425V instead of the stock 3.1GHz/1.325V 800-1900-2400-3100 = stock 800-1900-2400- 3700 = OC. From your previous comments I deduce that the Vcore for the...

thanks for all the feedback i stressed the cpu at the lowest setting by disabling all the other multipliers (still not sure if that is the right term), so it forces it to run 200mhz x 5, 1.0ghz, with prime95 running, which it is stable with voltage 0.75V. so as some of you mentioned, it is most likely the machine hangs when changing state. the odd thing is, when i was running vista ultimate 64bit, the setting i had then doesnt work now that...

bigdoofus wrote: Let me know it goes, especially the undervolt. Will do, but shipping might take 1-2 weeks (ordered the components Friday night; no confirmation yet).

hybrid2d4x4 wrote: HTPC CPU: Pentium DualCore E5200 2.5GHz w/ semi-passive minja Mobo: Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H (the GF9400 one) CPU-Z shows 0.896V (sometimes alternates to 0.912V). Peak temps are 39 on both cores under Prime95 blend after ~45mins so far* and stable. Hi, what are your default VIDs? the VID at full load (maxVID) and the VID in idle when EIST drop Vcore and multiplier (minVID)? you can see those values with CoreTemp... thanks

Interesting reading. However ixbtlabs measurments for MSI 785GM-E65 look unrealistically low: 10W - idle, 39-56W - Far Cry. And this is with Phenom II X4 810. Tom's Hardware came up with 85W idle / 128W under load for the same board and Phenom II X2, X3 CPUs. Go figure, might depend on the measurment method.

expxe wrote: Asus M3A78, this is an mATX AMD board can underclock the CPU vcore 0.775 volts (although your cpu won't be able to) with phenommsrtweaker or AMD overdrive. will accept AM2+/AM3 CPUs with DDR2 RAM. chipset is 780G. comes in integrated ATI HD 3200 that can playback 1080p videos.

Memory latency is tricky, because it is specified in terms of clocks. So: a CAS latency of 7 @ 1066MHz equates to 6.56 nanoseconds a CAS latency of 9 @ 1333MHz equates to 6.75 nanoseconds The CL7 RAM is only 2% faster to access a memory column in absolute terms. As for real world performance, I don't know, but I'd guess swivelguy is right. Bandwidth is probably more important than latency for most applications. Either way, I suspect...

I don't think you'll see much benefit past 4GB of RAM in most situations. With the exception of video encoding, it is very difficult to max out the full 4GB with desktop apps or games.