Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

[Oldguy932]

Well, I can tell you that the readings on the Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe are quite a bit closer to actual than the msi board. 1.3v gets me 48C load at about 2.8ghz, and I know that if it hits 60C everything freezes no matter what, so I'd estimate 10C below actual. Temps were the same on both my 9500 and 9600 BE, haven't done prime at that frequency on my regular 9600. I tried that technique of priming for a long period of time and then moving up the frequency, but I hit a wall at 2.82ghz on the BE. 2.9 needed more than 1.4v so I just quit there.

Now I know you guys have been against bumping up the NB multi on the regular phenoms cause it gives wierd readings. Well bump it up to 10x and tell me how fast your L3 cache is compared to at 9x or 8x. On my board it makes the L3 Alot faster. 13x cuts it down from 48 to 34ns according to the latency batch program with cpu-z. The 11x multi gives me 6.9ns in everest and 40ns in cpu-z. The only problem is how the cpu speed gets calculated...

HTT, NB multi is NB, CPU multi is CPU

NB Speed=9*HTT as long as NB multi is 9x or above
CPU Speed=((9*HTT)/NB)*CPU

In short it means that your cpu is going slower, meaning you need less vcore. But at the same time, your NB is working much better than at stock. Here's a simple pic of the efficiency...



I kinda surprised myself with that run to be honest. Not quite comparable to a Core 2, but its on the road to being closer. 13x seemed to be comparable, but since the NB multi is higher than the CPU multi the cpu can barely overclock because it just keeps knocking the HTT limit down, from about 300 on this cpu.

I think that's good enough for a first post.