Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6

[Aussie FX]

This board is really good.. till you stick a phenom in it!

SO I'm wondering if ANYONe has had any luck booting over 2.7Ghz with the 9500.. it is capable from a stability pt of view, It was stable on Air at this speed.

I have all the cooling in the world at my disposal and I'm certain exceeding 3Ghz will be possible with it when / IF this problem becomes fixable.

What voltage are you giving it now mAJORD?
The early Phenom Anand had when Barca was released was showing ~1.5v on cpuz. So I wouldn't think it's a cpu limitation.
Did you see the link I put up from THG? They oc'ed that cpu to 3.0 but they were using bios F2i on this board.
It is strange though that this limit kicks in with Phenom and not K8.
VVJ posted the F2i bios a while back, it's in this thread somewhere.

Anyway hows it performing at 2.7?

Edit:
On re-reading that page from Toms, nobody was allowed to raise the cpu voltage when overclocking, so maybe that's why it's been disabled for Phenoms.
That's my guess.