Quote Originally Posted by MadDias View Post
i think i found the reason for the weird "downclocking" iīm experiencing when running prime95 for a few minutes.
itīs the mosfet/nb cooling...
even at 3.2ghz idling itīs getting so hot that u canīt really touch it.
just for fun i tried putting the stock amd coolerfan that came with my 9950 on the mosfet heatsink. that way i could pass 3dmark vantage runs at 3.4ghz without having those weird hiccups during the cpu-test (guess that was because of the "downclocking" when the mosfets or the nb exceeded a certain temp). that lil 90mm fan went up to 4900rpm during the benchmark so that heatpipe thing getīs really hot and i think i need to put it under water too.
Hey this is really hot, how do you read the MB temps?
I'm using asus probe2 and i' having around 31°C at full load with intelburntest using maximum ram.
What voltages have you set?
I'm using
HT voltage: 1.34
NB (core) voltage: 1.3

I've come a little further with my AMD system, i'm aiming for a 100% stable 24/7 overclock, because this system ist mainly my storage server with software raid and encryption.
here is a result with a uncommon CPU for this board


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