Phenom II TLB Bug Question

[Torey]

I bought a Phenom II X4 965 BE A month ago to upgrade from an Athlon 64 X2 5600+ since a friend was giving me a free AM2+ Board and second GTX 260. Well anyways I was reading up and came across the TLB bug which Phenom processors were plagued with at first and that the Phenom II series was not supposed to have this issue, just confused because some people say they do and also I downloaded the "Fix" for it which you can switch on and off.

I did a series of test using Heaven Benchmark , Performance Test, Battlefield 3 while streaming 1080P.

Basically in ever test I did it was better with the TLB Bug Fix enabled.

Battlefield 3 while streaming in 1080P on Twitch without the Fix was using my cpu around 97-100%, after applying the Fix the usage went down to around 85%.

Heaven 3D gained around 100 points on the test each time I did it.

The Performance Test didn't increase a whole lot but it did.

Also Windows Experience Index wen't from 7.6 to 7.7

My question mainly is why is this improving my CPU if the Phenom II's were not supposed to have this issue.

[SubTract]

Wow I remember this. Although I was under the impression that it was actually fixed with the phenom II's From what I have read alot of people are having improvements using this patch some minor some large on Phenom II chips however there is a warning on the patch website saying "do NOT to use this patch on ANYPhenom II as it will cause instability."

Have you had any stability issues?

And now looking at this I wonder if by some small chance this will improve performance of FX chips.

Can you provide a link to the bug fix you're using there are a few different ones from what I can see.

[Torey]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?180338-Phenom-TLB-Disable-Tool-and-Phenom-MSR-tweaking-tool

This is the tool I'm using. I haven't noticed any instability, My computer did lockup once during BF3 streaming but then again I was overclocking my cards quite a bit, My second 260 doesn't like to be pushed passed 615Mhz and I just had to push it to 620 heh.

[Torey]

Wow I remember this. Although I was under the impression that it was actually fixed with the phenom II's From what I have read alot of people are having improvements using this patch some minor some large on Phenom II chips however there is a warning on the patch website saying "do NOT to use this patch on ANYPhenom II as it will cause instability." Have you had any stability issues? And now looking at this I wonder if by some small chance this will improve performance of FX chips. Can you provide a link to the bug fix you're using there are a few different ones from what I can see.

Can you download this and try it out? Would really like to know, might keep me from getting an 8350 later on.

Mine basically gives me 10-12% off my CPU when I'm doing anything intensive. BF3 + 1080P streaming any gaming really period adds around 10-15% FPS.

Was making a video showing it but got lazy =/

[S-L-R]

The AMD 8350 is a new architecture anyway. You wouldn't have to apply this patch, but, if you're running windows 7, you might need the Bulldozer patch for windows in order to unlock all the cores.