Quote Originally Posted by tictac View Post
yes that is the number set it ... after set you need to restart te computer to make the new NB speed take effect...

after you shutdown the computer the setting will be gone.. so no worry

to make it easier number shown in that place represent

00001b = NB Multiplier 5x
00010b = NB Multiplier 6x
00011b = NB Multiplier 7x
00100b = NB Multiplier 8x
00101b = NB Multiplier 9x
00111b = NB Multiplier 10x

NB Speed = NB multiplier x HTT

Good Luck
Good TicTac! Should be very intresting to run Phenom on 790FX and set up the NB speed to different levels and see how the processors efficiency increases.

This was originally one of AMD's weapons I think but to run the IMC/L3 cache faster than the processor itself (async like the ALU's in the Netburst architecture).

It's surely one of the bottlenecks in the processors performance. The L3 add's about ~20ns memorylatency. Phenom looks good, but is too early and not finished, just released in a crappy form.