Quote Originally Posted by iocedmyself View Post
A few seconds doesn't cut it, you have to turn it off long enough for the power LED on the board to actually go out. What i mean by "having the voltage jacked up" is doing something like booting at stock clock with over 1.55v. Actually a reliable source has told me that anything over 1.475 is going to be more likely to cause instability if clock is below 4ghz, 4.1ghz - 4.2ghz require between 1.525 and 1.55 AT THE MOST for complete stabilitly, but also requires a mid to high end heatsink.

Phenom II's are optimized for overclocking, so they don't REQUIRE that ACC is enabled to clock high. This is why all the PII chips and AM2+ motherboards have TDP ratings of 125-140w with stock voltage at 1.35 when the chip consumes closer to 60w. Most have no problem running stock speed at 1.2v, and can hit 3.5ghz - 3.7ghz without having to raise cpu voltage.
iīm an electrician.. i know how long it can take condensators to unload
acutally, a very reliable source (called me,myself and i), has experienced stability issues when not using 1.4875v (1.52v in cpu-z) at a clock of 3.7ghz.
iīm on water, so iīd consider my heatsink kinda "highend".
i know that there are better steppings out there that reach 3.7ghz on stock voltage. but that doesnīt help the fact that I CAN`T USE ACC. even if itīs not necessary, itīs a feature of my mainboard, so i would like to use it.