Quote Originally Posted by Particle View Post
Yeah, yeah. That's what I was getting at--win at "something" (just power consumption). At 2.2GHz, I've no illusions of setting stunning performance records for anything even with 12 cores. We'll have to see how far it'll clock, and before I go too crazy I want to inspect the VRMs to see what I'm dealing with. I'd also like to get a fan on their heatsinks and maybe some real thermal paste.
Good idea, your task manager ss looks like your cpu is throttling @ only 2.2GHZ; check it out before you break your expensive hardware.