Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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I've tried nearly all the ways to clock Phenom and found the best, quickest and most accurate understanding giver is by working your way up slowly moving from one perfectly stable setting to another.
I usually try max valid and max benchable before this though, but after this too.

Was an easy go up to 2.5GHz by just increasing vcore and the multi. Normaly I oc the same way you do.

AFAIK the multipliers and PLLs are separate, hence the no effect. Otherwise, there certainly would be.

I thought about the tlb bug. He occures in an timeframe whom is affected by both frequencies cuz the core and the l3 cache are involved.

Check out these articles.

1. The following AMD CPU's compared for power efficiency: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/proces...iew-30178.html


Unfortunately, they made a crucial mistake. They used BIOS P0F which disables the TLB Fix only on the first core and not on the other three (unless done manually). Pity, it would've been useful.

Very interesting together with the comparison of intel cpu's. Got an qx6850 ES today, rest of the system arrives tomorrow. Will have that stuff for about two weeks. During all my ocing I ran cinebench 10's opengl and multi-cpu benchmark and noted points/time used and temps and power consumption during the cpu benchmark, so i can do a similar comparison between my be9600 and that qx6850.
BTW: Also an 5000be arrived here today, so much to play with.

2. X2 K8 and X4 K10h compared throughout the clock ranges: http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl...-phenom-22756/


Very useful IMO as they tried to show the max possible for Phenom by 2008 compared to what we can already have with X2 (and more really). I'm not sure about the NB though as I'm pretty sure unless they manually clocked it down, it would be 2000MHz which is 200MHz more than retail Phenoms so far. Not a large difference generally if any at all, but in memory sensitive applications, it can very well be.

Happy reading.

Not yet finished.