Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
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).

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.

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.
Justapost, thanks for the feedback.

Those monitoring readings are incorrect because your BIOS>Phenom support is bad. Those AOD readings are only displaying what you're BIOS is telling it.
Your BIOS is not the first, every bad ASUS BIOS I've seen which lacks support for Phenom runs the NB multiplier async with the core multiplier, and so that messes Phenom monitor reading up in ALL software but CPUZ (however CPUZ won't validate in this state because it detects errors).

The real clock speeds in the above AOD screenshots (faulty ones) are NB MHz=HT MHz in CPUZ and CPUZ CPU/RAM is correct.

If you set 9x multi on Phenom, it'll boot up just fine and AOD will read the correct values. If voltage/memory control is missing in AOD, it's because of your board BIOS lacking support for it.

If you can change CPU/NB VIDs, then again this is a BIOS feature. However Sammi did say that the CPU VID is usually locked (1.20/1.25). Bad supported ASUS boards would show high MHz for Phenom and high volts and high and low VIDs but in actual fact were not changing anything at all (AOD will show this properly). So keep testing to see what the state is.

AOD works with X2 CPUs just fine.