Quote Originally Posted by Lightman View Post
I'm using A6-3650 (2.6GHz/320shaders) in my HTPC for some time now. In XP MCE I originally had on my box you had to turn off C'n'Q to comfortably watch x264 movies due to independent core clocking and processes jumping between unloaded 800MHz cores.
My Vista Business install solves this problem completely and power efficiency is just great for HTPC box with everything I need from my living room box, including causal gaming on pad. Most console ports work well even in 1080p at the console quality (Medium on PC).

Now to OC bit!
Dead main rig board forced me to temporarily use my HTPC as main ring so I've putted HD6970 into it and started OCing.
Because I have cheap Gigabyte A55M-S2H board I wasn't expecting miracles, but I was pleased with stable 140MHz base clock (AHCI). Memory clocks really well and hitting over 1950MHz with 9-9-9 timings and 1.5V from my Vengeance 1833 9-10-9 sticks was effortless.
Sweet spot I settled for: 137MHz base, 1830MHz mem (1333 div) giving me 3200MHz @1.3V. Power efficient and quick enough for BF3 at Ultra 1920x1200 (HD6970).
Pushing it higher didn't make sense with voltages required to hit 3.4GHz stable from my POV and HTPC being on small AIR cooler.

Great little platform and flexible enough to replace my main rig when needed!

Now AMD bring me FM2 I really was waiting for!
Just my 2c
Interesting.. did you try BF3 Muliplayer on that setup ? seeing as its a fair bit more CPU intensive then Singleplayer would be interested to know how well the lil llano with a discrete card coped with that on Ultra.