about qpi, check with cpuz or hwinfo32 in windows please, iirc it shows as 6.4 in bios but it does set it correctly according to what the cpu flags as default qpi link speed.
its something about the bios not recognizing it easily and possibly an award kernel bug or something, dont remember the details...
since it didnt actually affect the qpi speed when we checked, was quite a while ago we first noticed this, we decided to ignore this bug.
but even if it actually sets the qpi speed wrong at default, it doesnt really matter, you dont lose any performance whatsoever from what i saw when i tested.
even if you underclock bclock to 85mhz (yepp, br can do that
) and set the lowest qpi multiplier, there is still no drop in performance... qpi is quite a powerful bus, well it is essentially hyper transport, and we all know how ht made no diference when benching on a64.
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