Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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Yes i am sure it was 3dmark06 but found the issue. It was 3dmark itself as when i tried to run it again it gave me errors- Vista/3dmark issues perhaps. Well only have this weekend to play with my 9500 as it is sold....waiting for my BE.

OK. Let us know how the BE goes

New bios released: 1.33
http://www.msi-forum.de/thread.php?t...user=0&page=13

Ah, that makes it 16 BIOSes now but these last 10 or so really do have bad perf. I'll see what I can do about this.
I'll hopefully test 1.33/P0H tonight before moving back to 1.13.

LOL, atm i wait for a bios with a vcore setting. You can be sure I think about ways to introduce phenoms in our office to get a few more for testing but it's oversized atm.

Did you know, VCore is linked to VID? If you're at a high VID, you can't have a low VCore. Lowest VCore at 1.55VID is 1.48V BTW.
How many BIOS releases has ASUS provided you yet?

You mean the vcore cpuz reports i guess. With lower temps phenom seems to be stable with lower cpu/nb vid and vcore settings here.

AOD/EVEREST/HWM/DMM VCore.

CPUZ hardly picks up my VCore. Yep, lower temps help with everything in an IC, it is scientifically true.

congratulations to your new results 2-7-2,8GHz stable was what i expected from the be.

Thanks but it's the chip rather than me.
I could've got one that only did 2.3G but again, that would've been the chip itself. I just hope users paying would get at least this much out of Phenom BE, I reckon it would be far better than what we see at present. I mean, I have even ran my RAM >1300 with Phenom, so it is worth it especially when you have NB/HT at 2.5G too.

During watch Speedfan charts I found that the CPU temps has seldome peaks about 5° above the average (swinging in +-1° range). Peaks should be higher with stock cooling as I used watercooling. Thouse can be the source of hangups

All that shows is, the heat produced by the core is low, only some decent air cooling is needed to be able to oc it. WC usually gets higher oc than air simply by its higher thermal capacitive nature.

You have a few typos here.

Yep

Yeah thanks I thought the superio chips is different from the chips I called clockchip and informal already pointed me in the right direction.

Do you mean the MB PLL?

If the co-worker could decide wheter he wants an X38 or an P35 chipset and needs additional DDR3 sockets for better lifetime i'd already test that cpu here.
Little OT but do you know if the X38 is more power efficient?

X38 is a power hog compared to all the latest Intel/AMD chipsets right now. 36.5W TDP whilst P35 is a 16W TDP chip. P35 is a very good offering, one of the biggest boosters of Intel sales in Q3/Q4 '07.