Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
Had it a few weeks ago, it was DOA (never booted) and I've not had it back since. My procedure is quite lengthy since I don't buy them myself so it's not me dealing with the supplier or retailer, it'll me the IT management at my uncles firm dealing with their distributor or usually AMD, and so it takes longer for me to get something since they cover many queries at once i.e., I drop it back there when I get time (500 miles away), they then work something out with their distributor/AMD, then retake, redelivery to them, I get informed by whoever finds out and I have to wait to drive 1000miles there and back again to pick it up.
What is wrong with sending it through the post?
Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
BTW, AMDs SB600 gives higher ATA133 IDE performance than P965, P35. However the SATAII performance is worse on my board than the UDMA6 IDE HD.
In 32MB sequential read using HDTach, I get 20MB/s more for the IDE HD than the 2x SATAII HDs I've tried.
What is your average read speed? With an 500GB Sata II HD i get 56MB/s with my 8 year old 20GB IDE 12,5MB/s.

Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
TDP compare: No problem.
My main point is, clock per watt, oc'd clock per watt, at the same fab process, one revision earlier, K8 core still clocks higher within the released Phenom TDPs, whereas K10 core stops at a low point. Hence there is something with the K10 core stopping the clocks and it cannot be just design materials (SOI) since it's this same SOI with much worse transistor performance/leakage that can produce higher clocks at the same TDP in K8.
They had problems with higher clocks on the first K8's in 65nm too. Can be there is a leakage problem with the L2/L3 cache as there are no 2MB L2 65nm k8's also.