Were your timings and background processes EXACT for the WinRAR comparison Cam? The results are very good, more than what you usually can get. Thanks for the comparison, helps much in deciding BIOS with better MEM perf

About stability testing:- whoever said SnM, damn that application is second to only Intel TAT in stress. Beats Linpack hands down. Furthermore, it can detect Tcase, Tjunction, voltages, fan speeds, tests CPU, Cache, FPU, HD, MEM, graphs it all working out many statistics auto. Excellent app

I've tested 14 stability testers yesterday but on Intel builds. Can't test on Phenom until it starts up.
Best ones so far are SnM, BurnIn Test, System Stability Tester, SysTools.
Worst ones are Burnin 2008, OCCT and Orthos.
Highest system loads are with SnM and Intel TAT.

And Cam - man you have a lot of reading to do
You're not supposed to open two such monitoring apps together, they can and most of the times do set your readings and OS haywire

Only open CPUZ/EVE after AOD, like I've been saying right from the beginning as did Sami as has done Feiry - that they will most likely conflict. Exactly the same with any other "monitoring tool" which accesses same readings AOD does, don't try and cause a crash by opening both that conflict due to the way the software works.