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That's the fella... Available most places -
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=11675&&source=Dealtime
http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=310787&cks=SER
I can vouch for the DFI Lanparty UT nF4 boards having the Ultra-D version myself. A little daunting at first maybe due to the mountain of options but the best AMD motherboard available today.
I guess ultimately it depends on what you want from the end result..
Do you want to sit on the sofa and play driving/platform/sports games with reasonably good graphics on a large screen or would you prefer a high spec PC with superior graphics and the ability to upgrade as and when necessary...
Most retailers wont tell you what the stepping code is so I purchased mine from http://www.cpucityshop.co.uk/ as they told me what stepping it was before I placed the order.
CAB2E's were very popular and some people acheived 3ghz from their 144's. CABNE 0540's aren't bad, CABYE's seem less...
That's what the program is designed for... Adjusting fan speeds hence the name SPeedfan. The main page allows you to adjust the speed of various fans in your PC from 100% down to 0% (off).
As gaming benchmarks are primarily associated with graphics cards they are not neccessarily the ideal benchmark for testing the cpu, hence I ran Superpi instead, but nevertheless here you go -
3DMark05 - 7664 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1497627
PCMark05 - 4419 -...
Rather than spend £700 on an Athlon 64 FX-57 take one server rated AMD Opteron 144 (CABNE 0540) with standard heatsink, a DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D motherboard and a few hours tweaking and we end up with the end result below..
Not bad for a humble 1.8ghz server processor. Unfortunately...
VVT is very real in the sense of Variable Valve Timing and constantly adjusts the timing from 1350rpm(ish) upwards.
Any sound at 5k(ish) has absolutelty nothing to do with VVT whatsoever. These are Clio's not Type R's. You seem to be thinking of VTEC however which is not merely valve timing.
As already said Event Viewer (also found under Adminastrative tools) is the best option but this inly applies to Windows XP and wasn't present in the previous versions of Windows.