Hi fellas, had to leave for some time. Hope your all enjoying your holidays, best wishes.

Quote Originally Posted by Emperor View Post
guys...do u use the bios or the pstates to change the vcore?
BIOS mainly but I try AOD too if it works.

for me my settings are 1.537 something volts in bios and pstates is 040.
P-States won't be that for CPU, it won't boot at that if enabled. That looks like NB VID to me. CPU VID is locked and not the VCore.

another thing that puzzled me is that after leaving my com powered down for the night, the bios automatically reduced the vcore in bios without changing the clock speeds and because of this i ended up with repeated reboots telling me my OC is unstable.
How do you know if it was the BIOS which reduced it? Did you start AOD and ever hit Apply? If you did, then that is what reduced it, since you have to choose max volts in AOD to get a high actual VCore value.
and the best part? it appears the max voltage is lowered from 1.6 to 1.5375 or so.
Yeah same here. Mine used to be 1.64V-ish and then suddenly went down to 1.458V. What's your CPU VID? When that changes to 1.20VID from 1.25VID, the max volts you can have also falls according to my testing.
Quote Originally Posted by KeZzZu View Post
15.7 sec wprime 32 run @ 2.74 ghz(4-4-4-3) unfortunately 2.750 ghz run screenie bananed(4-4-3-3)

Question: is there some good tweaks more? where i can tight up some more in memsettings?
AOD.

Quote Originally Posted by DaMulta View Post
Anyone run one on dry ice yet?
Don't have equipment here, since I'm on holiday for a while away from home. Tried an industrial phase change unit about 2 weeks ago from work, which can usually take the adjacent object to -30ºC temps. CPU IHS reached -28℃ but it did not make a different to max bootup MHz, max HT ref. and max CPU MHz, so I didn't bother again.
I guess I need to RMA my motherboard and do it then
Why do you want to RMA the MB?
Quote Originally Posted by Daveburt714 View Post
Hi Folks, and thanks for all the GREAT info on OC'ing Phenoms!!

I've been reading the forums for a couple weeks now and finally decided to join... Have you guys come to a consensus on what the BEST AM2+ Mobo is yet?

After reading alot of this stuff I'm leaning heavily toward the DFI board, even though my last few builds have all been MSI's... I'm trying to hold off until the 9600 BE's are released, but I think I'm going to go ahead and pick up a board now...

I already have the Memory for it (G.Skill (2x2) DDR2/1000)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231145
so if you have any Mobo recommendations, or see any problems with this Mem on a particular board I'd appreciate a heads up!

Wish the BE's would hit the shelves already!!! This money is burning a hole in my pocket
Welcome Daveburt714

The DFI board has problems more than MSI one with Phenom that I've seen. I like the board (especially colors) but it seems to have a HT wall with Phenom lower than the MSI does which needs to be fixed through BIOS revisions. I would've picked it up actually but it is no where to be found around these countries.

As for the memory, it won't be able to run at the rated speeds with the MSI board so far.