cool n quiet on phenom II

[swaaye]

I saw a big drop in speed in XP, probably because of the independent core clocking. Games loaded slower (until I forced affinity), 3Dmark05 CPU test showed a quite significant drop. Vista is all good though. Probably because the CPU changes clocks on all cores at once.

I wanted to run XP on here but that just makes it not an option.

This is one of those things that really makes me go "Hmmmmm". AMD engineers had to know that threads fly all over the place and that performance was going to see a major hit if the cores were clocking at 800 MHz when performing tasks... My good 'ol Q6600 has no problems with XP, thanks to its "rudimentary" EIST.