Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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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).

Is that more or less than the 9500 required for 2530MHz? I browsed over the first pages of the thread and found only 2,4 or 2,6GHz results.
Must say i did not expect 3GHz with the BE. If that would be possible in numbers there would be no delay for 9700 and 9900. But i expected an better result that with an 9500.

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.

Same here booted with 235Mhz and tried to lower multis till it was prime stable. Core 2 is my best one, unfortunately i can not define which cores to disable. I can only define the number of cores i want. Does the MSI board allow this?
I'm involved in an project using medical image processing alot. CPU and memory heavy stuff, so I aim for an good oc profile i can use just in case i need it. But most of the time 2x1,8GHz or so are sufficient here.
Had an 9750 here for a day. Did a few benchmarks at 2GHz to comapre it clock for clock with a 2xk10 and 2xk8. As expcted the 9750 won most of em. But the phenom system seems to respond faster, but that's an completely subjective impression i can not proove with numbers.

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.

I get these core temps on 220x10,5 with the reserator 1p. Guess it's time for an 9700 HSF.

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

In terms of stability or speed?

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.

AMD NB Power Monitor u mean.

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.

Latest success report on bro's DFI review doesn't look so bad. But I already got the confirmation that they canceled the board on my order.

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.

The Asus board? What i don't like about Asus is their technical support, I never got any respond from em and they do not even appear in their own web forum.

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.

Lol, the DFI board. M3A seems to do ~360 ref HT with the 406 bios.
235MHz was the max i could boot with the 9500 in the M2A-VM and the M3A so it might be the cpu's limit.