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Originally Posted by 3.0charlie  Keep us on the loop, I always had ECC disabled. But Powernow, that's interesting. Could it be the 'Turbo' kicking in? As far as tpf and ppd, both rigs are almost the same (22:40, 238k per HFM).
edit: I don't think Powernow makes any difference - see AMD PowerNow!. My question is, why add this feature on a 4p server board when the article talks about notebooks and battery power savings? Weird. |
I think the recommendation is to disable PowerNow to increase performance slightly. PowerNow lets the CPUs drop bellow 2Ghz when they are not fully loaded I would guess and then they take some time to get back to full frequency which impacts performance.