Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

[Manicdan]

im confused, how does using a phenom cpu make ram timings better? im able to hit 490 stable at 4-4-4-12 with my really cheap patriots 6400 at 2.3v. im scared to see what they could do with your cpu

[KTE]

im confused, how does using a phenom cpu make ram timings better? im able to hit 490 stable at 4-4-4-12 with my really cheap patriots 6400 at 2.3v. im scared to see what they could do with your cpu

It won't do really.
What you get with an X2 is v.close if not exact what you'll get with Phenom with respect to RAM timings.

The RAM I'm using is very good. It constently hits 1200 4-4-4-4 2.2V with Intel CPUs.

[Daveburt714]

KTE, are you still running the 1.13 bios?

I'm really starting to wonder if I have a bad board/chip... When I was having problems last night I set every thing back to stock, it booted into windows and then locked up as soon as I went to open AOD... Guess it could have been a problem with AOD because I lost it and had to delete/reinstall...

I've been OC'ing for years and I've just never seen such odd behavior from a chip before... One time it will crank and next time it won't boot...

Oh well, guess I'll try MSI's 1.1 bios (board came with 1.0) when I get off work...