Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
Hmm..
^ That was your comment about MaxVid/MinVid.
Tried it here on the m2a-vm with 1,325V vcore and MaxVid is 1,3V here. Gonna inspect that register further.



Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
Those RAM/L3 are directly comparable, they're the same NB/RAM.
The L1/L2 caches aren't comparable because my CPU is 100MHz faster.
I'll run some 200x11 today and post here.

However you only ran one single threaded bench which doesn't support Phenom fully yet. Try and run Sandra/WinRAR as it supports Phenom multi-threaded memory access and that'll show the real bandwidth of Phenom better. Unganged will perform better than Ganged in multi-thread, EVEREST can't be used to show the real bandwidth but can be used to show the single-threaded memory bandwidth.
Yep, I tried RightMark's multi threaded memory benchmark whom SocketMan recommended.
Unganged mode is faster here. Even more faster (ganged vs unganged relation) with ram at 1066 than at 800.
Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
Here ya go Achim, everything's matched now even the CPU speed. Only thing different is you have the theme service switched off, I'm on XP Pro SP3 and RD790 chipset.
Yep, theme service and some other useless services are deactivated by default. No international SP3 available I guess.
Beside that I see the biggest differences in latencies. MSI seems to be a tight better in unaganged, Asus in ganged mode.
Thank you for running those benchmarks, I expected bigger differences.

Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
Interesting thing to note-> people really haven't worked out this platform properly yet, let alone a week or a few days for a review. Look below

Power Consumption:

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CPU 11.5x 2.3GHz @ 1.160V, 1.175VID
NB 9x 1.8GHz @ 1.050VID
HT 9x 1.8GHz @ 1.1V
2x 1GB RAM 800 @ 2.2V
HSF 1290RPM @ 5V - 400mA
Sapphire HD 2600 XT 800/700 @ 1.26V/DK
2x SATA II WD Caviar SE 80GB
Antec Earthwatts 430W
Hibernate: 9W AC
Standby: 55W AC
Idle: 94W AC
Load: 161W AC


Compare with stock system findings 15th Jan: Power Draw

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CPU 11x 2.2GHz @ 1.160V, 1.175VID
NB 9x 1.8GHz @ 1.050VID
HT 9x 1.8GHz @ 1.1V
2x 1GB RAM 800 @ 2.2V
HSF 1290RPM @ 5V - 400mA
Sapphire HD 2600 XT 800/700 @ 1.26V/DK
2x SATA II WD Caviar SE 80GB
Antec Earthwatts 430W
Ganged DCT Mode:-
Idle AOD Green: 92W AC
Idle AOD Yellow: 95W AC
Idle AOD Red: 119W AC
Load: 156W AC

Unganged DCT Mode:-
Idle AOD Green: 94W AC
Idle AOD Yellow: 97W AC
Idle AOD Red: 118W AC
Load: 158W AC

AMD should have merchendised the tlb-fix as a power saving feature.
Is the load consumption also affected by the tlb-fix?