Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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That's true, some could. My 9500 didn't, checked how I'm supposed to. Can't modify this one, so no way to check.

If the scaling was wrong, you can find this out using a DMM pretty easily. Heatsink can't be 70C if the chips internally below 85C real now, can it? Compare that to my heatsink temperature now, it's idling (let me check)... 27C, ambient 20C, EVEREST (etc) reads 24C.

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What did your DMM probe read at 125°?
There is no peltier effect between IHS and the cooler i assume.
If the sensor is calibrated at 60° and the scaling is too high, it would explain too low idle and too high load temps.
Had the DMM probe near the ihs for quite a while. The gap between probe and cpu temp readings increased with higher cpu temps from 10° to 20°, never went above ~55° cpu temp.

BTW, in case you didn't know, Dell has configured a lineup offering of tri-core and quad-core K10h products it'll be offering mainly for businesses it seems and Kyoto University recently ordered 1,664 Barcelona Opteron quad-cores for a supercomputer.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36092/135/
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/...omputer_1.html

That's actually much better than what most expected, incl. myself. It ultimately means the major dealers and buyers don't share our outlook and it's positive for AMD.

In the server market they still have an advantage in power consumption due to not using fbdimm's. And scaling is also still better.
I heard that some OEM's received b3 barcelonas.
EDIT: Here is an link in english saying they prepare the shipment.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9866698-64.html

Also you can disable cores using CPU-Z incase you didn't know.
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No i did not, gonna try it I assume I can not disable core0.

BTW, the new Cat 8.2 drivers are great. Fix many bugs, this was an update worthwhile. I'd move into it if I was you.

Thx, gonna try em at work tomorrow, we use an HD2600XT in an CAD machine, and some apps still have open-gl issues. Hope they integrated some of their firegl fixes into 8.2.

Ocing is lengthy here atm, tring to breack the 2.5GHz wall my be has, but the freeze occures only after ~3hrs.