Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

[Daveburt714]

I was gonna start a new thread, but I'm buzzed again, so I thought I would run it by you folks in here first... Your all cool people!!

There are 3 things that the Phenom Platform needs:

1. A better power system for the Mobo's, voltages fluctuate alot, and Phenom seems to be real sensitive to that.. I think the K9A2 keeps the MOSFETS cool enough, but those Inductors get way too hot!! (I'd consider an aftermarket option...)

2. A little more work on the BIOS, especially the option to disable the TLB Fix... And I mean totally disable it!! TLB will go down in history as the most overblown eratta in history... I can see where it would affect Servers, but on the desktop? I can't say for sure, but I don't see myself ever running Virtual Machines...

3. We need a piece of monitoring software that shows ALL the options, NB/CPU VIDS/FIDS, NB/CPU/HTT Multis, the VDDC Tweaks applied, HTT Ref./Volts, temps from all the sensors and what they apply too... I bet the guy who did CrystalCPU could whip this out in a few days..

There are so many options on Phenom, #3 may very well be the most useful, at least you could send one ss that would show folks all your settings..

@ MADFAZE, I really don't think the PCI-e clock is gonna make much difference anyway, I know it didn't do anything accept cause problems on the K8, so I haven't even messed with it on K10 yet, but If you want to play with it, I'd be interested in the results...