Quote Originally Posted by daseto View Post
With the results that i have seen with Thuban it would appear that AMD did some pretty good performance increases to the IMC for DDR3. People seem to be able to handle higher NB with less volts and in turn able to clock some nice DDR3 speeds close to 2000mhz with what appears to be relative ease. I would like to know if indeed Thuban is better memory wise or is it the new chipsets that are making for higher mem clocks.
For sure the IMC has been improved in Thuban. Before I had to bump up CPU-NB voltage to a minimum of 1.35v just to even get anything remotely stable on my previous 920, 550, 555 processors. Since I've been trying to find a good OC, while still keeping total wattage lower, I was surprised in my findings that I did not even need to have my CPU-NB voltage as high anymore. I think it's at 1.2v now.

I can even boot my NB at over 3GHz on Air, whereas on previous processors it would instantaneously blue screen.