Ohh that, I thought it was speedstep. I've turned it off in bios 3 times and it keeps coming back like a desperate ex. I canned XP and installed Vista 32bit today cuz XP Catalyst drivers were giving me a headache. So far everythings working ok in Vista so I'll flash my bios tonight and see if I can't fix that downclocking. Funny isn't it how the mobo tries so hard to save energy all the while I've got 6 120mm 1300rpm+, 1 140mm 1200rpm, and 1 80mm fan cranked to the max. Seriously it way to loud but it's very frosty. I played 2 hours of Crysis today on high settings having a ball and my cpu didn't go past 39C and the Radeon OC at 665/1023 didn't go past 44 C. I played with headphones on of coarse. Something else I need to tweak in the Bios to intelligently controll those fans...heh
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