Originally posted by theonejrs:

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Since today was the hottest day of the year so far, and it being about 84-85F inside, I decided to torture my computer some more. I've left the HT link frequency at 2200MHz, and raised the NB Frequency to 2800MHz. I upped the NB Voltage to 1.40v, and the CPU NB VID to 1.4250v. This fattened the Memory bandwidth up to almost 9000MB/s. A healthy 700+MB/s increase.




I set the ACC to Hybrid, and set all cores at +2%. This stops the individual cores from showing their temperatures in everest and AMD/OD. Here's a screen shot of AMD OD to confirm the settings.




The end result is faster encode times. I re-encoded the same flick I did last night with DVDRB/CCE 2 pass, and the improvement was almost 5 minutes. I figured I would go ahead and do it today since it's so hot. Temperatures were never an issue, as the CPU hit 43C, and the motherboard hit 41C.

Hey, I'm still learning! LOL!! I'm very pleased with the results!

Best Regards,
Russ

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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I've had one kill two drives, but it wasn't actually the splitter at fault I believe, it was a Molex->2 Molex splitter. I threw them all away just to be sure. All the others seem to work fine, but yeah, they are risky cables. I never use previously-unused Molex->S-ATA cables on anything but bare drives, just in case.

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I wanted to check with you AMD guys to see if anyone has come up with a solution for monitoring the Core Temp on an unlocked CPU.

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@ bigwill68
My question is are you getting a temp reading in bios of the unlocked fourth core?
the fourth core is usually a defective core so unlocking them is sometimes problematic
I heard Core temp is meaningless since you will always have one core warmer than the other. If you go by your overall CPU temp you will be fine.As long as you keep you CPU temp below 60c and another thing. I heard once you unlock there is no way of knowing your individual core temp because the sensor is disabled. Once you lock it back up the sensor goes back to normal.

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(By 2oldGeek)My bad? I said Core Temp but really meant CPU Temp. Yes, you can get current CPU Temp from Bios but that does me no good when running Prime95 and would like to see what the CPU Temp is doing. After unlocking a disabled core, no software that I have found will read the CPU Temp. not AMD Overdrive, SpeedFan or Core Temp, etc. I do set CPU Warning Temp in Bios to 60C to warn me if it goes over. AMD says the Max Temp is 71C but I like to stay away from anything over 60C.

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2oldGeek

I have tried a lot of software to monitor CPU temps but no luck at all. Have never tried Everest, will give it a try.

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I know, it?s a crap shoot but when you buy a X2 555 or X3 720 expecting to get a duo or tri and end up with a quad with a 6MB L3 cache and OC?s like a dream, Happy Birthday!

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I know it's a challenge to get those extra cores to open and have them run stable. I haven ran across that path yet but...I believe it's worth the award after words to see done and that yo did it...Thanks for the Birthday Wishes

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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I've managed to install Win7 in Dual boot with XP, and it all works correctly. I do have to say that I am disappointed with the playback of DVDs with it though. Not near as good a picture as on XP. I guess if M$ does that it will increase the sales of 1080p monitors! LOL!! I've installed the latest video drivers from nVidia, so it all should work well, but .....

My only real complaint is it can be so frustrating to do simple things, like getting the S/PDIF audio to work. I googled the problem and came up with a ton of useless suggestions. The wind up was that you can't have the analog plugged into the computer, or neither the Coax or Optical audio work. I only found that out by accident, I unplugged it and the sound came on. Plugged it back in again and it vanished. XP lets you use all three!

Another thing I don't like is the lack of an active icon for the internet/network activity. I've tried a couple of programs from the internet that installs an icon like XP has, but it only works the first time you use it. After that it never worked again. You also can't set the folders or drives the way I like them. I prefer icons (shut up Rick), and have all of mine set to 7 icons wide. I prefer to scroll up and down, not sideways. The only good thing I see with them is if you search alphabetically, it does move the each letter keyed to the top of the window. I'll get used to it, and at least it's installed, authenticated and registered to me! I'm sure 6 months from now, that I'll like it a lot better.

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I don't know about liking it better as time goes on, getting more use to it maybe but not liking it.