Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
KTE,seems you're the first one to find a limiting factor on your MSI board.Good going This is probably the case for all 790FX based boards(can we say Phenom has an issue with high HTT clocks and 790 chipsets and we need a high multi-aka BlackEdition- CPUs?).You did a great job for such a small amount of time
This looks like a CPU limit rather than MB limit. The base clock of HT that has to multiplied has to remain low. You can see this and this exact reason why videos and higher clocked versions can only run faster due to higher CPU multiplers, but actually lower HT ref. than mine. HT total speed is not the limit, have done 2.4GHz on this but it's the HT ref. speed on mine and every other system I've seen. Limited on CPU at 250-268MHz.
OBR hinted while ago that he could reach much higher on HTT clock using a regular AM2 board(instead of 790 based one)
Are you sure he said this?
Maybe total HT speed can be higher on one of those boards but HT ref. I doubt very much is possible higher than these boards, quite honestly. These 790FX are the best boards for AM2+ as they support dozens of options and technologies no where near and better than older AM2 boards. Those boards can't even change FID/DID/VID on CPU and NB. These should be clocking best in all aspects by far.

Has someone reached HT ref. >265-268MHz with a 9500 on AM2 that you know of?

Hell yeah we need unlocked multi's! I think I've found a way for something here but not sure. Will try it out later...