My last 9600 BE: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=569

OPN: HD960ZWCGDBOX
CAAWB 0747MPMW

My new one:



Hahaha

OPN: HD960ZWCGDBOX
CAAWB 0747MPMW

Man, they only had this batch/week/OPN there when I picked it up, every one of them spare was this. It's the exact same coded one I had before, I have yet to boot it up and check what the stock voltages/te,mps/power/vid are and if it reacts the same as my other one. Would be a very good checkup for "this stepping/week/OPN is [insert comment]" don't you think?

Also, both of these had a 2mm^2 dull metallic rough spot looking like a "pencil smudge" in the middle of the IHS. Did anyone else get something like this with their Phenom?

Quote Originally Posted by SQjay View Post
New board (V2) is missing Promise T3 controler (only 4 SATA on SB600).
Hmm.. I wonder why though, the SB600 has given more problems than the Promise.

Quote Originally Posted by jonspd View Post
KTW I guess your gonna let us know how that cpu does hummm?
Don't plan to really.. you don't want to know, do you?

I need Admin to restrict me from posting unless I can verify a 3GHz Phenom. Maybe then I can actually start trying with this.... although that time may never come on earth unless I swap my C2Q in there somehow

Quote Originally Posted by Swanie View Post
Hi there KTE. just flashed to the new beta bios POH and used your first setting. This is what i am getting now with the different settings. I have noted that my NB is now different to my HT ?
Thanks Swanie. You can move the HT slider up though. Tried it yet?

(don't try above 2.6 HT, it'll lockup)

Have you tried lower RAM divider than 1.2.66 ? Do they work?
What about any other options like NB multi, NB VID, CPU VID, are they available in the BIOS like the older ones, or totally removed?

Quote Originally Posted by Swanie View Post
Well the new POH bios you can turn the TLB fix on or off in BIOS. It is set to disabled which i hope means off. One thing though the selection for P-State is gone.
Same as the P0F and P0G then.

Quote Originally Posted by jonspd View Post
Nice thanks for that info Swanie. I hope they put that into effect in bios 1.3 official. If pstates is gone then I guess you have to change everything in the cell menu.
No options for most of P-State variables as we had before in the new BIOSes. Very few oc options now.

None of the 'Performance' BIOSes have been any decent for me since P0C. I wonder why this is.

Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
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.
Are you sure about this? Try P95 latest one which is 25.6 IIRC. I highly doubt anything will come near its power pull, load and hence what creates the high temps apart from Linpack. Orthos is IME 12W lower full load than P95 small FFT on the Phenoms with lower temps and easier to pass too, although it is supposed to be based on the same code, there are many bug and performance improvements with P95.

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?
No idea about 1.2. 1.31 BETA was excellent for X2 when I tried it, better than 1.0 and 1.1.

[i]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. [ii]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. [iii]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.
Then we now know why it's BETA.

Try a stable release if you can instead but the temps/volts info should be provided with HWMonitor/CoreTemps perfectly anyway.

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.
Well, it could be program incompatibility or just an incompatibility bug. Maybe they are both accessing and sharing the same resources, this can cause such freak behavior.

Quote Originally Posted by Suosaaski View Post
Hello.

My Phenom BE won't go past 2,6GHz either, and 2,6GHz is not stable in the long run... and it needs a bit of voltage to make a 3dmark run at it:

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4...zphenomup0.jpg

Even at that voltage if I raise it to 2,7GHz it will instantly freeze.

Main components / details:

MSI K9A2 Platinum (BIOS 1.1, tried 1.2 too)
Phenom 9600 BE + Scythe Ninja
Sapphire HD3850 Crossfire
4 * OCZ Platinum PC2-6400 1GB
Antec NeoHE 550W
Vista 32-bit
AMD Overdrive 2.0.14 beta (tried earlier versions too)

PS. I know in the pic the HT voltage is high and there is no need for it, it was just left there back when I run the 3dmark after testing and stuff. It makes no difference since with that run I had only raised the multiplier.
Hey Suosaaski, wlecome.

First the bad news...
Damn that is the exact chip I've had twice now and yes, those VID/Volatges will be pulling mega power. Almost the Quad FX again here.

Can you do something for me on Vista... at 2.4GHz run Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 1M and post it back please.

(run it about 3 times before capturing ss of the last one)