Sparky, should easily be able to do 11.5 to 12 multi change. Bump the V to 1.265V and check, if it fails, you most likely have other problems somewhere.

Can you give us a ss of what AMD Power Monitor along with Memset 3.5BETA and CPUZ CPU/SPD tabs show?

LIKMARK, 165W AC idle is mostly due to your card+chip I'm gathering. I have more peripherals connected than you and have to increase Volts to 1.29V idle now because after 15hrs, trying SupCom, it failed after 1hr37m play at the above post#608 setting, and still, I'm idling 106W AC without CnQ and 95W AC with tweaked CnQ.

I'm wanting to trying 5 boards ATM (RD790: Sapphire/Jetway, ASUS Crosshair II, Abit AX78, Gigabyte 780G) and give feedback and I can pick all of them up by Friday evening, incl the ASUS with 10 phase PWM ()... problem is actually time and space. I'm too overloaded nowadays, I haven't even managed to post 8 different and very large testings I've done with K7.5/P4C/P4/X2 BE 45W/X2 G2 BE/C2D G0/C2Q G0/X4 95/96/96BE since 6 weeks now, not even arranged the +600 odd pics, they're scattered all over UK on diff. systems, then theres the in-depth memory test I ran similar to that recent article posted here but at least 4 weeks before it and not yet posted, incl not answering around 104 old PMs, 19 vital member posts and 24 old emails yet and skimping on some lengthy testing for software devs and site reviewers.

It's why I 'aint really doing much, and also dropped writing an intro AM2+ guide linking to 5 in-depth walk through guides for Phenom systems and overclocking on different boards, setup, requirements, best procedures, known issues, experiences, oddities, expectations, base performances, performance tweaking 'n' tricks (exact values and their effects), limitations, stability testing and how to deal with them, especially the biggest headache causers and things for newcomers, incl. which CPU (Phenom/C2Q) is better for which sort of real-life segment and which program (can bench 2.8GHz Phenom and 4GHz C2Q all the way down to air to show each application). There's a big difference between oc now and before. Before with C2Q, quads were either the market for those who spend on nothing but computers, rich, very limited specific need segment or are too into them beyond reality or need so don't mind waste credit card purchases to pay-off over the next year. Now quads are open to near enough everyone of the general public, again this because of AMDs mainstream competition and pricing, to whoever can afford any standard single core PC, and so a lot more newcomers are getting them, want to oc and get started on them, especially with the 9500/9100e and the various 770/780G/690G chipsets incl. the MSI/DFI 790FX and their prices. You can't exactly write "MSR001_0070 [32:29] in CCPUID MSR Editor and you're done!" but you have to write towards the intended audience most of whom know nothing of that sort.

Daily IT onliner, gamer, mainstream, overclocker/bencher, budget, general desktop, HTPC, science calcs, rendering/multimedia are different segments, with different needs, perspectives, uses and thus tips and advices.