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Whoa man thanks for the testing!
My scores the lowest, yep
I did not want to prove that. I'm curious what intel will bring to the table, currently their onborad gfx chipset is more or less on par with 1250/HD2100 beside intel also can run the SM3 stuff.
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Hmm.. I tracked a program running at startup which set "ATi mode changes" - possibly something to do with that. Your scores are still very close by though for both runs.
I run an about a year old winxp installation on the M2A-VM so a software problem caused by old drivers or registry settings are quite possible here.
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Yep, Sandra has to put load on or it can't fetch temps, thus what you see is slightly loaded temps [+2-3C from idle] - ambient was high.
Ah ok.
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I've been able to troubleshoot and found EVEREST also picks up BIOS temps, CPU and GFX-NB temps, as does EasyTune, it just labels them wrong way round. Here's real idle temps in both states->

"Motherboard" in EVE is CPU in BIOS as you can see through EasyTune and "Aux" in EVE is GFX-NB labeled as System in BIOS/ET.
+2.5v rail is actually the DRAM voltage, real is slightly lower [-0.016v]
Great, thank you it's similar to what i get on the Sapphire with Sapphire bios.
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BTW, two of my old gen PATA Maxtor drives, still living, one of them beats all of my WD SATA II-> [all settings are same]
No big difference between SB600 and SB700 with a normal disc it seems. That PATA drive was faster on the MSI also if i remember correct.
Thank you for the power measurement. I'll connect a few discs and the GBT PSU and post results here for comparison.
The 4850e run's at stock frequency (2.5GHz) with 1.175V have you tested the 4450e in that area?