Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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The maximum for everyone I've seen is around 250-268 HT ref. Mine is 267MHz HT. ref.

Have you tried to find the max ref. HT the board can handle?

I can boot 255HT ref. now stock volts, all cores.

AC. DC which is actual power consumption is lower, multiply by 0.83.

Sorry non native english speaker here, that's what i had in mind.
I use W for DC and VA for AC.

2.2GHz stock all volts, low HT gives ~177VAC max.
2.64GHz stock all volts, low HT gives ~200W VAC max.
2.7GHz max all volts, high HT, high NB gives ~330WVAC max.
NB needs those volts to achieve high speeds, yup.
I think around 2.60GHz is most efficient.
What HT and NB total speed (not the reference clocks)? That'll make a major difference. Let me know that I'll try it and let you know.

VAC at 2,64 with high NT/HT would be cool.
Too bad you don't have a q6600 for comparison.

I've done my own measurements. Mine idles around ~25W and load is around ~50W max using ATi Tool.
I'll measure power draw at stock with all stock volts again and let you know what the DC W value is.

Great, how do you measure the card?

CnQ enabled is like so: http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...4/CnQ-1100.png
That gave idle power of 96-98VAC.

Full load stock all. I measured again and it reached a maximum of 177VAC in P95.
Maximum of 168VAC in any application, which was 3DMark06 during Deep Freeze.

Looking at your screenshot it seems CnQ does not reduce the HT multiplier.
You said HT speed has an big impact on consumption, so with a lower HT multiplier idle power should drop a little.
So i'm still confident a 9500 system will require less power than an q6600 in idle once CnQ (2.0 as in thw's review) works flawless.
Thank you for all the effort.

achim~

PS. 9500 finally on the road, should be here in a few hours. I'm really curious how far i will get in the M2A-VM, max. ref HT i could reach with an X2 3800+ EE was 273MHz so i'm confident to reach the cpu limit.