Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

[KTE]

So what does this mean us for non "version 2 boards"?
Also what's the change?? Spec looks the same aswell. Same SB600

NO idea yet, we need to see a pic. Maybe they've improved the CPU inductors, MOSFETs and resistors.

Well.. What I meant to say was currently I have a non booting system with 2 sticks, I have one stick in one color and the other stick in the other color. So slot one and slot two. The manual says that is dual channel.
If I keep it in the same color.. say slot 1 then slot 3. Would that be worth trying? To get the system to boot... Would that then be single channel?

Yes it would, but better is to place only one stick to boot first into the BIOS. This method: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&postcount=21

That is true those were not default spd settings. I tighten them up because the game were a bit laggy with only one stick of ram. I ran prime95 for 15 minutes with no errors or warnings and played a little Call of duty 4 and Crysis with no problems with those timings.

What I really want to know is a good number to throw the HT at to make these ram work. That is the only thing I havent tried. I will try tomorrow. If nothing. I'm going to switch processors to see if the board is bad and cant handle 2 sticks.

You'll first have to run defaults and then oc>test each component individually or you just won't know what to blame and guessing will make you error when judging. Find your RAM limits or CPU limits first, whiever way you want to do it.

New bios are out again KTE

POH

LMK if you try them and if you do post us back some results....

http://www.msi-forum.de/thread.php?t...06ed13&page=13

Probably will, never tried 1.32 or P0H. The performance with <1.3 BETA was just not there with any other BIOS since then, they all slowed everything down even when the patch was disabled through the BIOS. IDK why that is, frankly.

I mean, in the P0F BIOS with TLB patch off, WinRAR gave me 666KB/s at a speed (possibly 2.3G/2500/1066) whilst 2.2G/1800/800 gave me 1901KB/s in 1.3 BETA.

Same pattern with Sandra, with wPrime and with EVEREST.

[Manicdan]

That's the same problem with my use of EVEREST too. I don't recommend using it apart from preliminary testing though, it doesn't test CPU/RAM as rigorously and properly as done by P95/OCCT/Memtest/gaming/Videoing and the temps/power don't reach what they do with P95/some benches/OCCT neither did it catch easy errors caught by others, so its not an ideal reflection of common day to day loads. Because when load testing, you need to simulate max core load to show the core is stable no matter what as the core load-line voltage willl fluctuate under arious loads and thats what will decide if your core is stable/unstable.

acutally i like the stress test, it pushes my cpu temp about 3C higher than any other stress test. but your right orthos is what i use for detecting errors. and playing games to see if it locks up.

Which BIOS are you on?

the one it came with, 1.1 or 1.2, either way i dont wanna change it until i know which is the best for k8, any recommendations?

What do you mean exactly?
Opening these software made EVEREST start reading incorrect values?
If so, what exactly is being read incorrect?

Which EVEREST test did you run?

you know how you can see the temps of like 8 different things in the taskbar in the bottom right corner, none of them would show up. or if you go to computer > senser, i get a detecting sensor information thing pop up, and my cpu is at 50% load till i close out everest completely. as well as the cache memory benchmark does nothing, and everest's cpuid does nothing as well. and loading up any of those "popup" windows then makes the main everest window lock up. by loading the stress test it looks fine but half the stuff is missing, and once i close same problem.

but simply by loading atitool, it switches from 2d to 3d clocks for my video card, 2900xt, and presto, everest is working perfectly, until i restart.