Ryan,I finally got rid of my AMD chip and got an I7 875K with the unlocked multiplier running on an Intel DP55KG Board.The unlocked multi (don't have to mess with voltages) is nice but it's only unlocked with turbo boost on. Right now I'm running stable on stock voltages with the Multi set to x29 at 3.9 GHz at 57C under load on air. I turned off all of the power saving features so that it stays at 3.9GHz all of the time, but I was wondering if I set all of the multipliers evenly for each core (as I have it now) will Turbo Boost throttling cause an issue in FSX if I turn the power saving features back on?This thing is eating FSX for breakfast.

I'm not entirely sure - I don't run with any of the power saving stuff or turbo-boost on with mine. It's 4GHz all the time. I'd say just try it and see if you see anything strange going on - you can monitor the speed with CPU-Z while running FSX for instance and make sure it's not downclocking.I'm also not sure that multiplier-based OCing means that you don't need to increase any voltages (at least Vcore) - that seems strange to me if it doesn't, the extra voltage is what gives a CPU stability at higher clockspeeds.

I meant to say that I don't have to mess with the BCLOCK. At stock cpu voltage 3.9GHz is stable. A multiplier of 30 gives me 4.0 but it fails when I run stress tests (BSOD), so I think a little bit of an voltage increase would stabilize it. As far as CPUz goes it reports the 3.9GHz clock speed the whole time even when the CPU is idle.

Ryan,I ran my first flight last night after reinstalling everything and I confirmed with CPUZ that the Turbo Boost didn't throttle down and that I had a consistent 3.865 GHz the whole flight. Thanks for your initial response.

No problem! I'm might look into turning that stuff back on then - I'm sure I'm wasting electricity here when the system's just idling at 4GHz while I'm not here etc....

Ryan,Just to clarify, even though I'm running Turbo boost I still have the power saving stuff disabled so I to am running at 3.9 24/7. I haven't tested it with the downclocking enabled.