Quote Originally Posted by ReverendMaynard View Post
Point taken. I've honestly never used it. It's the first thing I disable and have since the E6600. That is the 10000th thing that I would look for in a $450 board. And honestly, I wouldn't care if my GPU's didn't downclock either. It pisses me off actually, and I am positive it affects benchmarking.

There are a few dudes here toting that they have low voltage/high overclocks. The need for power saving options just seems ridiculous looking at this forum and the bigger picture of overclocking.
Sorry but i dont agree. I have done DOC overclocking when a prometheia was the best you could get. And i dont whant that kind of power consumption anymore.

Let me explane a bit:

My current i7 920 @ 3.6 GHz @ 1.25v (uncore at 2900 QPI voltage stock.) was using about 330 watt in a full prime load. But then i tried to get to 4000 MHz and a uncore of 3200. I used 1.52v and 1.55 uncore. My power draw then became a stunning 440 watt load. bot only 400 MHz. Thats not worth it in costs. Uncore was doing a 40-45 watt extra the rest was for the CPU cores.

Same with my old X1900 XTX. I lowered the power draw 60 watt full load. and only lost 20 MHz on the core gained about 50 on mem. so the performance was almost the same.

I'm trying to clock for the most optimal performance per watt. I dont need those 400 mhz all the time. its only interesting for benshmarking. And when i do that i will unleash that power. But i have a low power high performance setting for 24/7 usage and folding.