AMD Energy Efficient AM2s Info

[veranor]

I have found out through my testing that these chips are severely underclocked. This is the "energy efficient" way of getting them to low voltage.

Currently running a 2.0 Windsor x2 3800+ at 65w / 1.2v / 200 FSB.

I believe that this is a higher CPU in disguise... someone confirm? Its ridiculously easy to oc without raising volts.

 

[bfellow]

Raise it to 3.0+ ghz and find out?

 

[veranor]

Okay I've figured some things out as to why the mobo (Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5) will not post if the CPU is raised too high in speed/voltage.

First off, this is an EE processor (Energy Efficient), and I think AMD may have put something in the chip itself to check for voltage and temperatures. Its either that or the motherboard doing this.

Right now, I have achieved 2.5 Ghz @ 250x10/1.25. Stock for this processor is 200x10/1.2. This is great considering the volts.

Memory is not a concern right now, as I have tested it (Corsair 2x2048 XMS2 6400) throughly and it is stable at DDR830. The memory can actually achieve speeds of DDR900+ @ 5-5-5-12 2T.

This is a very healthy oc (Prime95 16 hours testing) with near stock settings and stock heatsink/fan.

Can someone confirm this info ?