AM2 Phenom support

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I've been running a Phenom 9500 in my Crosshair mobo for a couple of weeks now. Bought my 9500 CAAB1 AA 0744MPMW for 1390 NOK (approximatly 261 USD or 178 EUR)

There are a few threads here about Phenom and AM2+ boards that are great, and a lot of phenomenal wisdom can be learned there. (KTE and Brother Esaus threads to mention some of them)

However, not all of the functions of AM2+ boards apply for AM2 boards with the Phenom, and therefore running Phenom at AM2 boards is a bit different.

Therefore I would like to make a thread for AM2 Phenom owners to share experiences that don't apply for the AM2+ boards. It is advisable to check out your board manufacturers support sites to see if your board support Phenom.

First, a list of known facts about running Phenom at AM2 boards.

1.The boards must be able to handle the Phenoms power consumption. Most high end AM2 boards pwms can handle the amount of amperes/watts the Phenom's are drawing. If your board can't handle a 125W Athlon, it probably won't handle a 95W Phenom either.

2.The boards BIOS' needs to support Phenom. It is advisable to check out your board manufacturers support sites to see if your board support Phenom, BIOS wise and PWM wise.

3.You will not benefit from HT 3.0 and split power planes. You will not be able to feed your cores and your north bridge different voltage.

4. You will not be able to change your nb multiplier, it will run at stock *9 multi, and therefore hamper your overclock unless you have a Black Edition cpu where the nb multi is unlocked. If you do have a BE and want to change your nb multi, you will have to do this with a msr editor as no BIOS allows to do this yet.

NOTE:These boards/bioses officially support Phenom. However, official and actual support are two quite different things, therefore I've decided to mark the boards tested and confirmed by users that they actually support Phenom. The tested boards ar bolded

ABIT:

-A-N68SV
-AN52V
-AN68SD

ASROCK:

ALiveDual-eSATA2
ALiveN570SLI-eSATA2
ALiveNF5-eSATA2+ R3.0
ALiveNF5SLI-1394
ALiveNF5-VSTA
ALiveNF5-VSTA R2.0
ALiveNF6G-GLAN
ALiveNF6G-VSTA
ALiveNF6P-VSTA
ALiveNF7G-HD720p
ALiveNF7G-HD720p R1.0
ALiveNF7G-HD720p R3.0
ALiveNF7G-HD720p R5.0
ALiveXFire-eSATA2 R3.0
AM2NF3-VSTA
ALiveNF7G-FullHD R1.0
ALiveNF7G-HDready

ASUS:

-Crosshair: BIOS 0904/0905Beta(*)(PS: SLI disabled)
-M2N32 SLI Deluxe: BIOS 1701
-M2A-VM /HDMI, BIOS 1501 (Recommended upgrade to 1603 only if having problems with 1501)
-M2R32-MVP - BIOS 1009
-M2A-MVP - BIOS 0509
-M2A-VM - BIOS 1501 (Recommended upgrade to 1603 only if having problems with 1501)
-M2N-SLI Deluxe - BIOS 1302
-M2N32 WS Professional - BIOS 1703
-M2N32-SLI Deluxe/Wifi - BIOS 1503
-M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition - BIOS 0801beta
-M2N-E - BIOS 1202

BIOSTAR:

TF570 SLI A2+ - BIOS N57LAB06.BST
TF560 A2+ - BIOS N56BAB03.BST
TF520 A2+ - BIOS N52BAB03.BST

DFI:

-LANPARTY UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G

ECS:

-NFORCE6M-A V3.0
-GeForce6100PM-M2 V2.0

EPOX:

FOXCONN:

-520A
-560A
-A6VMX
-A6VMX-K

GIGABYTE:

-GA-M52S-S3P(rev 2.0) - BIOS FC
-GA-M52L-S3 - BIOS F4
-GA-M56S-S3 - BIOS F3
-GA-M57SLI-DS4(rev 2.0) - BIOS FG (may cause stability issues in Windows at this time)
-GA-M57SLI-S4(rev 1.0 + 1.1) - BIOS FE
-GA-M57SLI-S4(rev 2.0) - BIOS F12
-GA-M61SME-S2(rev 2.0) - BIOS F7
-Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2L v1.0 - BIOS F4 (2008/01/23)
-GA-MA69G0S3H - BIOS F5
-GA-MA69GM-S2H -BIOS F4

JETWAY:

-Jetway M2A693PLUS-VP
-Jetway M2A694-GDG
-Jetway M2A694-GDP
-Jetway M2A694-GHG

MSI:

-K9NGM4-F V.2
-K9N SLI-F V.2
-K9AG Neo2 - BIOS A7368AMS.209
-K9AG Neo2-Digital - BIOS A7368AMS.209
-K9AGM3-F - BIOS A7367AMS.G01
-K9AGM3-FD - BIOS A7367AMS.G01
-K9AGM3-FIH - BIOS A7367AMS.206
-K9AGM4-L - BIOS A7373AMS.204
-K9AGM4-F - BIOS A7373AMS.204
-K9N Neo V3 - BIOS A7369NMS.30B
-K9N Neo V2 - BIOS A7369NMS.30B
-K9NGM3-FIH - BIOS A7349NMS.H07
-K9NGM3-FD - BIOS A7349NMS.U01
-K9NGM3-FD(TPM) - BIOS A7349NMS.W01
-K9NGM3-FD V2 - BIOS A7349NMS.S06


Disabling TLB Patch with MSR editor (see STICKY for disabling patch) is documented to work for board/BIOSES marked with *

Tools for msr edititing:

WPCREDIT (32bit only)
BAREDIT (32/64bit)
RWEVERYTHING (32/64bit)

(Please feel free to correct me if my information is wrong, I want this to be as correct as possible of course. Would appreciate if people would help me update this thread with important information too. )

Everyone but TROLLS are welcome to post questions/answers in this thread, it would be nice if they were somewhat on topic though.