Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
i dont consider 1.55v on thuban 24/7 for most people. most dont push it past 1.5v because air cooling just cannot keep it stable around there (unless you have a fan that makes you deaf)

also the crashing in idle ive seen before, and its because my idle voltage was too low. i would turn that up a few notches or just turn off CnQ and see if that fixes it.

can you test power consumption with the 2 different chips? it would be great to see identical load wattage and see how different the temps are, since that can give a very clear indication if the cpus are set with different calibrated sensors.
You know what the bad thing about FX is?
You should get a 30% performance/watt increase with the move to 32nm vs 45.

If you produced an FX-6100 (33% less cores than FX-8150) on 45nm it would have the same power consumption as X6 1100T and lose to it in EVERY benchmark AND real-world task. Even overclocked, it would lose in EVERY benchmark. ...that is, excluding benchmarks that take advantage of the new instructions which are little to none currently.