.95 firmware lowered the voltage on the 4 VRM boards which prior to its release, were left to overclock after 4 were removed without any testings of consequence.
The performance of .93 & .94 outshine the performance of .95 on boards with 4 VRMs. I have posted those pictures as well and others have switched back too. People rather run the boards with higher voltage/amps (overclocking but you hate that term) and cool them to prevent as much of them failing than to run a gimped .95 that does nothing to keep more cores running.
You get more WU with .93 & .94 than with .95. The cooling helps reduce HW errors regardless if you ignore that reality.
Dear sir, may I direct you to some dictionary that will explain to you what a clock signal is?
All the boards have the same clock and PLL settings, trust me. You are using the word "overclock" in a mistaken belief of its meaning.
The individual chips exhibit up to 40% process variations, which is normal.
What the error is is that the VRM modules can be programmed to a certain output voltage which they fail to respond correctly to.
Please, study the behaviour and manufacture of MOS transistors to see the error in your thinking, it is impossible to manufacture identical chips, chips across the die will exhibit different capacitance and different speed, both independently.
You may understand it easier when I remind you that the chips are not sorted in ANY way prior to package assembly, thus random chips are selected (but most likely in serial order in which those were on the die.)
Once again, the chips were never tested or put into different batches. That was to save us week(s) of production time, not to mention costs and development costs of the testing scripts.
When you ordered from KnC, all of this was already public knowledge. If you are unhappy with your unit you are free to sell it for more than you have bought it -- on e-bay for example.
P.S. Many people report way higher production rate under the 0.95 BIOS. So you assume that just something works in your set-up better that means the whole world revolves around you. Wrong, sir.
P.P.S. Would you like some overclocked Fish&chips?
