M3A overclocking

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subscribed - got my board a few days ago but haven't been feeling well enough to tear down the old machine and build the new one. M3A is not a top of the line board so it's not too much of a surprise that the options are limited. The board I really wanted would have been about $70 more and I just couldn't justify it.j

I ordered it because i was curious about the new platforms power consumption. Plan to buy a more expensive board once the platform has matured.
On the M2A-VM the first bios supporting phenom (1501) had the same issue as the M3A, no cpu multi adjustment was possible. It worked with the nex version (1601).

Good to know I won't have to disable the TLB fix - didn't want that anyway.

I think it will be included in a future bios version, the latest M2A-VM (1603) bios had the fix applied and no bios option to disable it.

Have you tried the overdrive utility with it?

Yes and it is pretty useless at the moment. I added a few screenies in my second post.
It calculates a wrong ref HT (176MHz instead of 215MHz) out of a wrong read nb multiplier (11 instead of 9).

176 ~= 1800/11*215/200

Also it can only read CPU VID at the moment all other voltages are reported as zero.
It only allows cpu multi, CPU VID and Memory timing modifications.