PhenomMsrTweaker: Cool and Quiet customized

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@Rezag1000 & mtl777: There's no right answer to your question about an "appropriate" powersaving state as it completely depends upon your needs and liking. The Phenom I halves its speed in P1, my X4 9950 defaults to 1.3 GHz @ 1.05V; the Phenom II uses 4 states, the lowest P3 state is set to 800 MHz at some voltage < 1V - correct me if I'm wrong, I think I've read it somewhere. I personally set myself a voltage limit (1V currently) and try to use the highest stable frequency (currently 6x262 MHz = 1.57 GHz). 4x262 MHz = 1.05 GHz seems to be stable at 0.85V, but I prefer wasting some minor Watts and having that extra 50% speed in P1 (=> lower percentual CPU usage, P0 doesn't kick in for very short loads).

Make sure to use tested stable settings for P1 too, don't assume P0 kicks in immediately when there's load. I use PhenomMsrTweaker's custom C&Q, set the power scheme to 'Powersaving' so that only P1 is used and then run a Prime95 session (large FFTs) for at least 2 hours. I suggest to set the NB VID to the same value as for P0 because the NB runs at the same speed all the time (that's mentioned on the webpage).

/edit: Just to demonstrate the usefulness of separate multis in P0: I'm currently running 11.5|12|11|11.5x262 MHz = 3|3.15|2.88|3 GHz @ 1.425V after having figured out that the second core performs best of all and is able to compensate for the "bad" third core. The result of many painful Prime95 sessions and crashes...