Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

[Daveburt714]

Oldguy, I've been doing alot of testing with your theory about the higher NB multi on a standard 9600. To be honest I was surprised it would even boot with a NB FID higher than 5 (9x)....

Here are my results. Numbers are "HT Ref x CPU Multi x NB Multi x HT Multi"

This is a ss from my everyday stable clock:
SuperPi may be a little low, I didn't delete the data files before this run, the rest of the runs are clean....

250x10x8x8


223x11x10x9


229x11x11x9


232x11x11x9


These are just my observations, but it seems like a NB Multi higher than 9x on a standard 9600 only causes the monitoring software to get screwy, especially CPU-Z and Latency.exe. Although AOD gets kinda wierd too, NB "Current Speed" seems to be right, while "Target Speed" is way out of line... It's just the opposite for CPU speed, "Target" seems to be right while "Current" is way out of line...

I say that because my chip always gets squirley around 2.55Ghz, just as it did at 232x11... Maybe you did hit the CPU Lottery twice Bro...

Wanna sell that BE? I live in Ohio too!

[Daveburt714]

Bob...

As long as it runs stable I wouldn't sweat the slow Vista boot, I think it's just the nature of the beast...

Bloated beast that it is... I still miss 2000Pro, I'd be willing to argue that was the best OS Microsoft ever released .........

[Blacklash]

Some Vista users might find the below useful.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2238

[Bob2190]

Some Vista users might find the below useful.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2238

Yeah that's not the problem. Not to sound like an ass or anything I do appreciate the idea. Without an overclock vista runs like butter and I don't have a problem with it. For some reason though once I overclock even a little bit vista seems to throw a temper tantrum and takes it's time starting up. Anyone else with vista have this problem? I can't figure out what it is.