I had more time for playing last night - thanks for the CMOS clear tip, that fixed the speedstepping issue.

For the 3dmark score drop, I was able to do some pretty concrete testing, and the 50% score drop was an exaggeration but accurate based on my observations during the first test. This is the score I get when I OC to 4GHz (3dmark reports for some reason 4.3GHz)

http://service.futuremark.com/result...&resultType=14

And then, here's what I get with no overclocking, default BIOS settings:

http://service.futuremark.com/result...&resultType=14

Each higher OC above 3Ghz would result in a lower and lower score. It went from 9.9, to 9.8, to 9.6, etc. until finally this 9.1 at 4GHz. Imagine my despair Now, before my wife convinced me it was time for bed, I began playing with the Temperature Control CPU setting (I believe that's what it was called), and with it disabled it would have difficulty booting per intermittent shut downs during the boot process. Increasing vcore/mch did little to alleviate it, and I wonder if it's the Abit Thermalguard kicking in because my CPU temps are reporting between 70 and 95. I'm wondering if the Temperature Control was causing CPU throttling, and hence the higher OCs would cause higher temps, and hence more throttling. Or is this a separate feature altogether?

BTW, increasing the PCIe Clock had no affect - tested 101, 102, 110 and 115. Tested GTLref 63 to 69

Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
i do not understand about the 50% drop....is your 3d2006 score dropping 50%????