Quote Originally Posted by Helmore View Post
To be honest with you, I have never really heard of some kind of hindrance in OC capability when using a 64-bit OS. Maybe I'm not keeping up enough to even know about it....
Some have said on this thread (or was it the one in the AMD section?) that their results varied, they have even had a higher stable overclock on a 64 bit OS.
I remember a lot of stuff on the AMD subsection showing phenom clocks and how 64-bit OS's had enough hindrance that people stuck w/ xp b/c it made that much of a difference. That's one reason I am glad I went with a q6600. I'm not a fan boy, just looking for whats best now.

Link to the thread about higher OC in 64 bit?

If the price / performance ratio is awesome for the new AMD chips, I'll pick one up. For most of the things I do, the cost of intel is not needed (htpc, folding@home w/ gpus, etc) and thats why this might be up my alley.