Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

[misteroadster]

You guys on Vista will get lower HT clocks than on XP. Vista induces a HT wall itself, well known since Kyosen's tests with Barcelona (I've tried it, I know Lightman has aswell). 234-250 is it's best limit.



Nothing against what you observe but physically that doesn't make sense. None of mine even booted 55C. Maybe your sensors are fudged and what it shows you as 70C is actually 20C.

100C real boot => no way. Dead chip over 80C real ran, TCC itself shuts down the chip auto at 70C -ish and it has a separate monitoring diode than the core readouts (hottest part). This looks like a case of fudged sensors, so far.

Tell me what your ambient temps are idling?
I'll try it tonight but there is a very large chance of having a dead chip this way. Basic electrical engineering (physics actually) decides that the chip will have a heat limit beyond which it will malfunction and become damaged. AMD has certified this as 70C, so it will be around that region for all these chips no doubt.

I can assure you the temps i'd said are accurate, at 90° the heatsink was really hot, i've even seen 120°c while i was priming, but after the motherboard shutdown. I assume it's really strange but it's for real. I know i'm crazy
P.S : The chip is still alive