Cold air benching - the secret OC weapon of the poor xD I am always trying to get the best possible temps. Whole rig in the freezer, radiator on the outside, dry ice chilled liquid - I used to get very creative when it came to lower the temps somehow

I need better memory, that's for sure. I have pretty much 0 knowledge about Win 7 tweaking apart from what you always do since XP, but yes, I noticed the bad efficiency. I also ran SuperPi, but I was shocked how slow Piledriver is on it. My personal best was twice as fast - done with a CPU 4 years ago

I didnt notice any difference between 0078, 0501 and 1201. Might make a difference when going subzero. I am already trrying to find some decent RAM. Until then, I will try to find out, what might make the CPU fly on the CVF-Z, then go for LN2 - everything else is just child's play But from the results I have seen, 8350 seem to clock 100-150 MHz higher on average than 8320 do, so that might be also the case with 8300 depending on what bin AMD uses as basis for the low vcore validation. Being able to boot at 4.8GHz with just 1.4V and run Cinebench at 5GHz with that vcore made me curious on how much more it could do. I will try some more, but I almost touched each and every BIOS setting, so I doubt I will find THE golden setting.