Quote Originally Posted by biohead View Post
3600 mhz here, 258*14*10*10, with turbo to 3870 mhz (not sure if it works all the time though, sometimes tmonitor (realtime core freq meter) doesn't budge while it should). turbo DISABLED in bios, otherwise it won't boot since the stock turbo (without k10stat loaded) is 16.5x multi which results in 4.25ghz.

if you haven't yet tried k10stat i recommend you do. on the fly p-states changes etc, it's quite handy. and if you enable turbo (in k10stat not in bios) hopefully you can let the turbo multies kick in (i.e it kicks in 16x on a 1, 2 or 3 threaded app, it doesn't when all cores are utilised).

otherwise i won't blame you for swithing to an asus or similar. i'm gonna have to deal with this one. i have the money but won't spend a dime on this system for the time being. i hope future bios updates will resolve most of the issues, but i don't think the vcore jump is gonna change. it's probably "hardcoded" in the VRM or whatever. so i'll have to compensate the lower idle vcore with CnQ for lower idle clocks.

last thing i'll say is that i haven't tried remounting my HSF. i think maybe i have a bad mount or the IHS is concave which gives me +10°C load temps. i have primed some cores individually at 4ghz with 1.3750v bios (1.43v load?) and it seemed to do okay which is a good sign.
I decided to keep my board, I haven't messed with k10stat yet, I haven't had time, work etc. Plus trying to find a board with the kind of layout that the 890/880G share for the price is nearly impossible, sigh.

I need to RMA my video card now, its giving me GSOD's and some other issues, once I get my new card in I will piss around with the board some more.

With your push/pull setup on the cooler, did you order a second set of fan clips, or just use zip-ties?