It seems the above combination is not the best mix. In my testing of a Phenom II 1090T chip on a Crosshair IV motherbaord I ran into a glitch. With Cool and Quiet enabled, STO does not for whatever reason bring the chip out of idle mode. The result is the CPU is only running at 800 MHz during game play and the game is jumpy to say the least.
Upon experimentation I have found there are two work arounds to resolve this issue.
1) If you want to leave CnQ on to reduce power consumption when idle the way around this is to set the affinity fo the STO client. To do this you start up STO and then go to the Windows Task Manager. Under the Applications Tab right click on the STO Application and select go to process. This will move you to the Processes Tab and highlight the process associated with the STO client. Now right click the highlighted process and select Set Affinity. Click all processors to uncheck all of them and now select Processors 0 and 1. (2 Cores seem to give the best results) Click Okay and enjoy your game.
2) The second option is to simply go into the BIOS and disable Cool and Quiet as well as C1E.
I have passed my information on this along directly to Cryptic as well as Asus and AMD for resolution. I have tested the Thuban on a different brand of motherboard and the issue did not occur. The issue seems to be specific to the Crosshair motherboard. I will have two new 800 series motherboards in hand within the next few days and will post results with testing those.
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