Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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Achim: if you measure IHS temp, you'll have to modify the IHS and install HSF on top sitting with a good flush contact and the probe underneath at the geometric center of the chip within the IHS. So the temps will be higher than taking any side measurements. X2 works differently to K10h since the core DTS can give different temperature feedbacks and the BIOS interprets them differently.

That's why I said minimal. If you look at my 100°C screeny you see that smart guardian seems to read from what everest reports as aux and seems to be an externel sensor in or below the socket so the reading should be cpu independant.

SmartGuardian is +20C wrong pretty easily looking at the various values. The next time you get the Phenom, open HWMonitor as well to checkup the various readings.

Must use somthing different than speedfan (kills pci functionality on dfi mobo) hwmon will be a good replacement.

Plus your CPU temp in EVEREST only showed ~53C actual around -10C with M3A readings and what every other Phenom gets. Every Phenom I've seen so far gets far lower temps than those at similar volts/speeds.

That cpu temp on the sapphire mobo is indeed strange. The mobo allows to specify an offset for temp reading. I left it at the default 0. Never checked that offset in the cpu registers on the m3a.

I don't think the temps/speeds killed the CPU IMHO, but I'm not sure if feeding the CPU/RAM high volts and priming it did.

Kinda strange why it doesn't boot.

He died as mysterious as he lived.

What's the max CPU VID and voltage you've ever fed it?

Ever? 1,525V on the M2A-VM in the first week, later never more than 1,475V on the M2A-VM (max stable voltge) and not more than 1,425V (few minutes) on the sapphire.
A few days before I just had verified my oc results on the m2a-vm and could not find any signs of long term degradation.

BTW, your sig reads you have a Phenom 9500 running a Phenom 9600 multi.

Ups, fixed don't have a 3GHz phenom running.