Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post
XP boot is harsher and creates more heat than vista/win 7 if you can believe that.......we have noted this quite a few times when benching on LN2, XP load screen is the equivalent of like running cinebench/Wprime 1024 M, I have no explanation why but it definitely puts a strain on the CPU.

Try booting in cold, etc with the PC off for a while.


I found 1333 5-5-5 to be less strain and easier on the IMC.......in my comparsion I think it was 1 sec slower in 32m and the 1600 ram clocks had a 30mhz advantage in NB speeds.........so the 1 second could be contributed to that.....
1 sec lower in 32m is more or less nothing. whatever my ram needs > 2.0v for 1333 cl5 so no option. try 1333 cl6 now with 6gb..

i really never experience such boot problems with xp. it was always easier compared to vista 64. but perhaps you are right and the system is better on 64bit and so the harsher boot sequence comes into play.. i suppose you compared with vista 32bit?

whatever its for benches only so i do not care that much.. but nice to know..