Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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2.55GHz was stock volts/vid stable with 9500. This BE requires more and it also has a higher power consumption/temps because of it.

I wonder if it's due to the board or the the cpu. Is it the same for other users with the 9500?
2,35GHz is max. stable jpierce55 and I can get at stock.

I did based on my earlier testing, had they given higher binned cores to us like with the previous FX/BE's instead of reject cores unlocked. These cores are worse than the 9500/9600 on retail around which is not the usual way to sell an enthusiast product.

It's a nice playground in terms of settings and it does not cost more than the 9500.

Do you mean through the BIOS?
No board I've seen yet allows selective core disabling through a released BIOS, have you?

Yes through the bios i meant. I have not seen a board allowing this also, but it whould be a nice feature. Asus boards allows downcoring thru the bios at least.

It's one of the options I asked for actually, to allow changing multi of each core within the BIOS.

That whould be nice.

Yeah for desktop/office functioning, I don't know why this is but because of the memory perf/latency. I've not touched AMD CPU's after K8 since 2006 and switching from a 2 year Intel run on the same day, cloned OS, same GPU/RAM, you can definitely tell the general responsiveness speed difference. Launch some work and you can also tell the performance difference in the same way too though.

Not sure about performance in medical image manipulations as those are very memory and floating point heavy. Do you know how the platforms do in ct/mrt segmentation?
I plan to write a benchmark for those special tasks. I'll build another intel rig for an employee soon, hope I can keep it for a week or so this time.

What volts/vids are you using?

At stock (1,25V), max possible on the M3A atm.

Your chip runs hotter than my 9500 but roughly similar to this BE. You're better off getting a Tunic Tower 120 or Thermalright Ultra-120 if you're paying, the price is v.similar and they cool better especially with +1 fan configurations.

I'm concerned about the board cooling with those horizontal mounted fan's. CNP9700 seems to do a better job here.
Do you think the extra cooling power provided by those 120's is needed for AMD cpu's.
The Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX funkflix used does not look so bad eighter.

Performance is real junk with the patch.

Ahh ok

That said, some of their P35 boards are excellent value for money.

I choose a Gigabyte P35-DS3 board for my first intel rig, did not look bad but i missed basic memory timing settings. After I had it benched it suddenly did no longer boot with 1066 settings. Time was to short to make myself a good picture of it.