Hi mw86 enjoying this forum very much , spend a lot of time on the notebook review forums , yes both are accepted but the score will be much lower if you use the amd optimized option the drop in points is even more , i have just installed in m18x a 2960 was trying to replicate your score of 10,000 lowering my flex but no , with amps what is best setting to start with , i am running 45x on all cores with a flex of 8 and my amps at 1050 which was recommended to me , but i feel the cpu runs a bit hot so whats a safe temp on these cpu ? i have repasted but used AS5 , but decided to order up some of that diamond paste to see if that helps , but i have no lock ups as regards to the temps , tried super pi 32mb and my time was 7mins 30 secs approx anyway any tips would be greatly appreciated . Cheers.