There's a new BIOS, not sure about what it brings. Will try it and see: A7376ACI.101

Quote Originally Posted by madfaze View Post
really?! stock vcore?!

cool...
Air, if cooled, it will bench 2.7G stock volts. I tried two of them, both did, others had some which did the best so far too, some above 3G.

not tested so far cause i had an isue with our board specially on the link width of pcie..sometimes it read out x4 only (instead of x16)...do you happen to experiece that too?!
Nope, first time hearing it. Set PCIe speed to Auto in BIOS and see what happens.

Which PCIe are you using BTW? Use the one closest to the CPU.

Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
Thanks for the update, thought higher DID's than one (2x) did not work. Tried 600MHz with success. 300MHz also works but it's too slow.
For the record, 0.85V VID was lowest stable for you, no matter what freq?
I haven't had any time to try things, only tried 2-3. I was at 207MHz HT and so couldn't try lower, had much work open so not sure. I just left volts as they were for previous 800MHz CnQ setting
I read some ignorant individual online saying AMD Phenom has problems that it can only go to 800MHz power saving, and it's obvious he had no clue what he was talking about, so we proved him wrong.

400MHz is fully stable, even 150MHz was fully stable switching between ~150MHz to 2691MHz. I never tried lower yet.
I think we're making very good ground here Achim, excellent tweakers chip its become.
It looks to be too complicated a chip for too many out there to get most out of though.

You're right, below 400MHz gets slow, jitters and stutters. 400MHz seems like best CnQ option to run and that's what I've been running since my last post. I also have 3rd core downclocked (13x core 0,1,2 and 12.5x core3). This is what I'm running for a day now:




Enable CnQ:


Update:
broke 100W ground here
http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=96acc2b.jpg
96.3W AC idle

100MHz (0x48009500)
http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=100dh0.jpg

Can switch between 100MHz/0.625V and 2.6GHz/1.3625V via reg c0010062h without problems.

UPDATE: 500MHZ/0.7V is somewhat comparable to by old celeron laptop at 600MHz, still onyl 97W AC consumption in idle. I like the higher DID's.
Nice, glad you got below 100W, finally

I am idling 93W AC with the above CnQ config (2xHDD,1xOptical,2xfans). Same as 800MHz/0.850V-1800/1.038. Which means, the power consumption for CPU at the 1GHz mark idling is negligible and most of the AC power is the rest of the system. Phenom at 200MHz/0.600V idle cannot be consuming much power at all, it won't even be 10W DC IMHO.

Quick calc: 95*((200/2300)*(0.600²/1.232²))
= 1.959W TDP

So CPU alone will have very low power idle at those settings, the rest will be nearly all other system component power. That's why CPU power is not going down much and neither is CPU temperature.

That's kinda incredible that it can run stable from 100-2700MHz, no core that I know has done that or given the user the ability to run CnQ in such a way. BTW I have the Abit 770 and the GBT Odin since a few hours now. Going to set it up morning, too busy now before sleep.