Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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Here's stock Sandra [512MB access] Phenom 9850 BE bandwidth compared - they are our own results, upper two are mine and lower two are Achim's;
Phenom 9850 BE 2.5G 1066 Unganged vs Phenom 9850 BE 2.8G 800 Ganged vs Phenom 9600 BE 2.3G 1066 vs QX6850 2.33G 1066

You could have also used the 3.6GHz result for the qx. Will try your sandra results file here today, i laos prepared a few other sandra benches on the weekend.

You're welcome - I have benched 2.4GNB, required 1.325VID

Thx, seems i had too low chipset voltages in the way here. Dropped the 2.8/2.2 stability test in favour of 2.9/2.2 with 1.35V for the CPU.

My 9600BE required 1.4VID for 2.4G NB stable, but soon, it degraded... I have a strong suspicion that its not the cores that degrade but the IMC LOL

Never used high NB speeds on my BE9600 i had to on the 9500 can be that's why one stopped working and the other not.

The cores not responding happened with me too but at anything above 2.6G with the 9850BE. I've not checked for 9850BE, so far it seems fine. I just need to GFX damn drivers working and I'll be happy to test in it
Hmm.. you know, I always Memtest any setting and never rely on what happens in-windows because windows thinks too much is stable, so it was actually the opposite for me

Hmm tried to install ubuntu on the GBT780G with an 9600BE but i cant get the installer working even in save mode, gdm restarts every few seconds.

Never had issues with the HD's under linux. Always builded packages for the os im on with the installer from AMD, will try it on the other setup later.

9600BE did 626 5-5-5-15-11 2.15v stable but 9850BE did not do that setting stable even at 2.3v. 9850BE did not run even 560 that setting stable at 2.2v, Memtest failed at Test#6, second run.

In-Windows, I've had more stability than B2 though, benched 638 5-5-5-15-11 2.2v which was not possible before. To check if it is better, I need higher HT and to test 500 4-4-4-4 1T 2.2v. B2 never had this stable but could easily bench it. Still it isn't really stable setting for me, just not crashing yet, Memtest shows it with many errors.

My this set of D9 is good, I can drop to 1.8v real 1066 5-5-5-15-13 and bench it in-windows perfectly fine - but it won't be Memtest stable, it needs 2.05v for that.
1.5v HT voltage is needed? That's a first that I've seen, I have benched 2596MHz HT at stock 1.2v and even 260-274HT at that voltage across quite a few Phenoms

Thank you for sharing this. Still have no clear picture about memory voltages here, that will require more testing here. seems higher NB speeds lead to higher voltage requirements for the ram too atm.