Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
Mine's now idling 30W AC lower and I'm slowly dropping the volts. At 1.272V for 2.613GHz for over a day and night to going to drop it lower. Stock all else volts.
Hmm I removed all additional stuff (fans,cdrom...) tried different slots for the ram and still had the +30W. Tried the 3850 from the intel rig and different pci-e slots without luck.
Switched to the BE2400 and verified the same power consumption at 3.2GHz i had few weeks ago.
After switching to the 9600be the power consumption is now at 148W AC at 2.6GHz (13x200) running at 1,35V now, guess i can go lower.
So the issue is gone now. Puh, was 199W at 2.6GHz before.
Above 2.628MHz system is not stable with vcore below 1.4V, dont want to use higer vcore atm.
Trying 1.28V vcore for 2.6GHz now above the voltage requirements rise very quick.
I think i can reproduce something comparable to your idle freezing. If i run 3dmark06 with prime the system freezes if i submit the 3dmark results. That additional test shortens testing a little.