Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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My Old DMM had became faulty with the P4 somehow reading very weird values so I picked up another new one spare around. 2-3 models above what Shamino likes to use so it measures -40C-2000C temps too at accuracy of +/-1% from 0-40C. Obviously you have capacitance, AC/DC voltage, AC/DC current, resistance measurements and so on.

Now, pay attention to this; On todays testing the CPU VID was higher than before, it was at 1.25V. Naturally than means higher amps are being fed to each core than when I last measured it when it was 1.20V CPU VID.
So as expected, the temps, wattage and amps are also higher. Here's my DMM idle/load voltage readings of the CPU +12V line, idle/load VAC readings of system power draw and temperature readings using its probe compared to HWMonitor readings.

I'm sitting next to a very hot heater and right next to it is a window behind which this is the current outside temp:


Central heater right next to the system, surface temp:


Ambient temp of system:


DIMM temp:


Passive cooled chipset temp:


Full 3hr+ load P95 in-place large FFT stock system 1.25VID 1.240VCore lowest fan speed Zalman 9700 only one fan HWMonitor CPU temp:


Same as above with adjacent reading of temp probe placed on IHS:


Very cool indeed, just like I had stated many times.

Now voltages are always wrong or inaccurate with software. BIOS reads my +12V correctly but EVEREST reads my +12V as 8.18V under load. I knew its badly wrong anyway, but look at the above screenshot and these to compare.

Idle CPU +12V:


Idle system wattage (VAC):


Full load CPU +12V:


Max load system wattage (VAC):



Thanks for reading.