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Your default VID is 1.68v or you had manually increased it to 1.68v?

You may also need to change your power plan profile in Vista. If you have it set to High performance, it may ignore speed step. (I've never used Vista, I jumped from XP 32-bit to 7 64-bit, so I can only guess on the profile name).

so are you guys saying that having speedstep enabled will basically make my pc use less energy when idle but give you full power when you need it in 3d apps like games and that! Exactly. As long as you are not depending on increasing your voltage for your OC and you haven't manually set the multipl...

I agree about disabling it when using non-standard voltages. Speedstep drops my voltage as well as the multiplier when idling. I imagine it does not work well if you are manually increasing your voltage. It does not effect bus speed. So if you overclock using the stock multiplier and voltage then th...

I wonder why the lack of passively cooled units. Seems like a great card for HTPC use.

This may apply to other brands of power supplies as well, but Antec no longer includes -5V lines on their power supplies. I have an EA-430, EA-500 and TruePower 430 and none of them offer -5V. Anyway, I want to supply a couple of case fans with 7V instead of 5V or 12V since they are really noisy at ...

In my HTPC, I have my E5300 running at 3.458 GHz on a PK5 at stock voltages and cooling. I simply bumped the FSB to 266 MHz from 200 MHz and confirmed max temp and stability using IntelBurnTest & Core Temp 0.99.5. Anyway, I have Speedstep/EIST enabled, so when the CPU load is low (90% of the tim...

You can count me in, that P/S looks pretty sweet.

I just posted this on someone's blog, but I thought I would post it here as well.... It seems that older 360 HD-DVD drives have the cooling fan set to run very fast (fast = noisy). I purchased one from Future Shop in Canada a little while ago. When I hooked it up I couldn't believe how noisy the fan...