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To: Dan3 who wrote (257576)	12/26/2008 9:50:40 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Phenom II status - minor update. I set the CPU fan to be a little more responsive (there's a setting in "Easy Tune" to do so). Everything else is at default (voltage, PCI, memory settings, etc.) and it ran through WIP at 3.6ghz this time. The CPU fan made it up to 2250 RPM (still pretty quiet). For what it's worth, the Processor score stayed at 5.9 (shouldn't it have gone up?), but the Graphics performance score went from 4 to 4.1 as I moved from 3ghz to 3.3 and 3.5ghz and then to 4.2 when I went up to 3.6ghz (using the on-board 790g "HD3200" video). I think that's pretty good. The case is a Thermaltake "Wing RS", a narrow mid tower that cost $50 at Tiger Direct and the heat sink is a $25 TT Silent boost Rx K8 from Frys with a $7.95 case fan replacing the original "open frame" heat sink fan that died. That's about as bad as it can get in terms of a system that wouldn't be expected to be able to overclock much, and it still runs at 3.6ghz under a complex load.