Hmmm thats interesting infor KTE. I had my 9600 BE running at 2.7Ghz stable at 1.262v. Would boot fine, ran prime 95 stable for 24 hours. Stable in all benchies, like 3dmark06 and pcmark05. But, every once in a while after restarting for unknown reasons when I would go to start up Coretemp, or Everest to monitor temps it would lock those programs and refuse to load them. Granted that was also on 1.2 Bios on the k9a2 plat, so any gain from being at 2.7 was wiped out by the TLB fix. Rolled back to 1.13 to get away from TLB fix, and ended up having to knock the OC down to 2.5 at 1.25v for full stability.

Someone on Toms hardware has a theory that part of the Phenom's issue is a possible hotspot in the die, revolving around either the Northbridge or L3 cache. I do believe that the individual core readings that coretemp shows are correct. Under full load at 2.7 my cores were staying below 31c, but CPU temp according to everest was running and staying below 40c full load on all 4 cores.. So that temp difference between the cores and CPU has to be coming from somewhere.