I know that there exist something that is called Cool'n Quiet, but I have stated in my first Post...

Quote Originally Posted by zir_blazer View Post
Most people will say that I should turn Cool'n Quiet on, but as an enthusiast, I prefer to manually manage that instead of letting something else do it for me, and if it wasn't due to K10stat I wouldn't be able to do it.
The point is, there is ABSOLUTELY NO REAL REASON for BIOSes to not have a range of Voltage options that includes values under the nominal ones, not just above these. This is what I am complaining about, and while there are workarounds and all that about this matter, BIOS options are always preferable, yet no one seems to care about the idea. Or do you prefer to overclock using Clockgen or other Windows based utilities?
Besides, considering the Post that I linked, the nominal 2.6 GHz should be reachable with only 1.15V instead of the default 1.35V, and it would be better if the machine booted using that Voltage instead of having to wait to Cool'n Quiet kick in or manually doing it using K10stat. Also, there are some experiments that would be much less risky if the machine booted at more conservative power settings to begin with, like not connecting the Fan to just use passive heat dissipation, and for that purpose, booting at 0.8V would be much safer than 1.35V, don't you think so?
Finally, this Forum is supposed to be called XtremeSystems because people here does a lot of crazy things and spends tons of money for ever-dimishing returns just to brag about minimal and untangible performance increases. So I suppose that 10 Watts saved on power consumption (Actually, around 15% of what the Processor consumes) isn't extreme enough for you?