Try lowering HTLink, raising CPUNB and see if you can get that vcore under control. Heat is your enemy on these, less heat less voltage needed. I never had a Kuma core though. Closest I would say I had to that is the 9950 (Both are Phenom I ) the 1090 is going to blow your mind after practicing on that Kuma core :) Hell the 550/555BE will blow your mind after that LOL

CPUNB will probably crap out around 2400 on that gen... on air/water and not much further colder IIRC...

When is the competition? I need to pick up a cool running AM2 chip for my nieces PC I just built her (have the 555BE in there now but its not "recognized" ) I can send you my Crosshair III and 555BE to practice on. Board is fresh from RMA new mobo this time instead of repair to old...

Depending on your sticks, 500 4-4-4 should be easily doable even on that old ass IMC.

EDIT: 1:1 HTL/cpuNB for wprime? interesting.... it is worth a shot. Vantage CPU test definitely sees an improvement in dropping HTLink... (and raising CPUNB of course) and that is multi threaded... try it though.

It's not really multi-threading that makes the difference with Vantage CPU neuro, it's the fact that it's graphical and using other components. Allot of the other stuff you've laid out is bang on, just adding my 2 cents :)

awesome you guys are right, ht link gains no time and nb frequency was huge change :) mem is junk tryed 1066 cas 5 no go.

Heat is def stopping me at this point. 3300mhz was the cap until I put rad infront of AC than 3.5ghz was my best 2400nb 1600HT link.

Think I get the idea now, also 9 out of 10 times the 2nd run was .2s faster. big difference.

oh yeah I forgot that..2 runs ftw same as Spi. :)

Also wprime32M test... 3 threads on a AMD dual core. hurts on the long test though. Might not be all archs...

It sounds weird but it always seemed to work better for me