Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
BE9600 is at least good for NB tweaking, will be interesting to see how far you can push it.
So far, at any mutli, at any voltage, at any VID, at any NB/HT/RAM/HT ref. frequency, there has always been one peak stable: 2530MHz.

That is fully stable at any config (even tried 2.58GHz NB/HT) but 2MHz above it is not stable with anything!

Plus, the voltage needed for high NB is not much and the voltage needed for 2530MHz on all cores is 1.32V idle/1.3V load (fully stable). But my core 4 and core 1 are weak, much weaker than the rest and core 2 is very strong. It may even do 2.7GHz, I'll test it. I've had a 2.63GHz run on it quickly without any freeze/reboot but I'd like 2cores to work in unison at set speed. Dual-core >2.6GHz and quad-core 2.5GHz won't be too bad because I'll adjust it at my need.

Some quick valids with higher than stock NB/HT (stable):
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=296693
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=296694
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=296695
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=296696

Also, I've only yet tested at high ambient temps and pretty high core temps (plus 47C load). Will try colder soon, its 2C out here as well.

Here's 2.438GHz CPU and 2.542GHz NB/HT:


Here was a quick plus 2.65GHz on NB (never restarted CPUZ, which you have to do for it to pick up correct values at times):


This is what I'm stress testing now (dropped NB/HT/RAM because it was pointless running those speeds with the errata patch):


It's past an hour stable so far. BTW, AMD Power Monitor only picks up dynamic CPU FID change and everything else remains from the bootup values.

I'm still undecided which board i should choose.
Id prefere the DFI as it is finaly available here and i'd like to have a board with
thousands of bios settings.
Had ordered it already but cancled it due to the problems with phenoms atm.
Yeah I wanted the DFI originally but their BIOS is no good for Phenom although excellent for X2. Probably the worst out of all offerings I've seen for Phenom and missing way too many options available on other boards. ASUS 790FX has one good option all other boards are missing so far but otherwise, this board has all options I'd want and better than most I'm seeing, better than the ASUS/Sapphire in BIOS OC options. I've heard they're taking heed to add more of what we requested, in which case it'd be a top notch board for users. Myself, I won't be keeping it, so not really bothered.

Now i wonder if the boot limit at ~205MHz was caused by the cpu and not the mobo.
Your board or mine? Mine doesn't have a low HT bootup. Plus 350HT ref. boots easy on X2 and plus 260 has booted easy on Phenoms.

Quote Originally Posted by KeZzZu View Post
KTE : you're right ^^ remember first opteron 144 s939 models? and especially CABGE patch cpu's... had one... needed freaking 1.9vcore to hit 3ghz with icy water... phenom just need's time to get fixes ... btw only cold can help with ocing current phenoms.. but we dont have unlocked multis.. and BE models sucks at ocing & high ht ref...

in my opinion all models should have unlocked multis and be's should have something else like tighter latencys on l2 and l3 :P but impossible thought.
Cold would definitely help since current leakage starts to increase very quickly with the chip. You'll see it as soon as you move voltage/vid up from stock. Without even maxing out volts/vids/frequency, I've topped 450W (VAC) power draw (CPU load) while the same scenario at stock produced 162W (VAC) power draw. This happens with many chips above stock though, but it is very high current leakage.