Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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as in the 9700 and the 9900s? blah, i kinda wasted my moneys on my BE.

No, BE is better for oc, uc and power/temps. You can easily get 2G on NB, stock volts it should be. Mine does 2214MHz stock 1.250VID fully stable.

All Phenoms were 2G IMC, they were downclocked for better stability after TLB errata was discoovered. That's whay the ones reviewers had were 2G NB.

Actually they were supposed to work with an auto detecting adjustable IMC, like the original spec had. Was suppose to auto detect and adjust the IMC clock to within 200mhz of the core speed to avoid the uneven divider problems that the K8's had, which would allow you to run your ram at full speed regardless of processor clock. It was also suppose to be able to clock down, and go into Idle mode like the cores do, with C&Q 2.0. Thats what the whole separate power planes thing was supposed to be for, all that does right now is make it easier to OC.

That was moved over to 45nm around early May period, they had too many problems with their original aims because of shortage of time. These are just a few things they skimped on at 65nm because of IMC bugs since January which led to all their launch delays. Others included a larger L3, 4 ccHT links and so on.

how do i get it to 2g?

Use BIOS 1.13B or use WPCREDIT/Bar_Edit to oc NB.

i have a question, i WAS using SB600 raid for my raid, but i was having... "lockups" whenever the system would read the cd-rom (take 30 sec to show my computer, wouldn't update to new disc when replaced) so i switched to promise. could that be part of my issue with BSOD on the P0J?

is there a way to just switch raid controllers without a reinstall? (like i guess, turn on raid on the SB600, boot, install driver, shutdown, switch sata cables..) would it then be a good idea to place cdrom and storage HDD, on the 2 promise sata ports?

AHCI mode has problems working with SATA drives on the SB600 ports. Otherwise they should work fine.

But AHCI mode gives me same perf. as IDE mode with SATA II NCQ drives, so I use IDE mode.

But 1.1b3 seems to be the best for that. But, not the most stable, why I kinda wish we could get a cross between 1.1b3 and p0j.

Yeah, same here. Wanted P0J stability, support and compatility but with 1.13B BIOS OC options and performance. P0J is much slower than 1.13B.

that's my issue, my dvdrw is a sata drive. current config is, raid 0 array on promise, 500gb and sata dvdrw on sb600, ide mode. never thought of going AHCI (call me passivly stupid) currently on bios 13b3. but with P0H, i get nvidia BSOD, P0J i get storage controller BSOD (goes too fast, but it's right in that area), and i get a x00000101 BSOD or a lockup every time i OC over 12x and/or 208 HTT. this is with bios .(insert bios version here) yes, it's the secondary processor error, and others. (x64 vista, FTL)

Vista x64 FTW!

IDK and will never know about Vista 64b esp. with SP1, because it is so problematic.

Can you ceck if you have any BSoD dumps and attach them back? I can check to see what the error is rather than guess.

C1 errors, hmm. That's what my defect not jet rmaed 9500 also does.

That's same as both of my 96BEs. That's the CPU IMC, I'm 100% on it. It faulters with initializing MEM, even 1GB 800 1.8V single channel. C1 code is when memory is being initiated. I can also tell because we have Tracer RAM which signals LEDs to show what is happening. If RAM loads up it'll keep blinking and then show a smooth pattern of flashes all across. If not, it'll either get stuck at a stage, either not turn on or switch off the LEDs. I like this RAM, it is very useful for memory troubleshooting.

Watch this. I've tried Phenom now and it won't boot in the AX78, same error. I don't have any phase or cool chemicals here to throw on it under a pot, the closest thing here is a refrigerator. So I'll have to work some insulation and leave it in there. I bet when mine goes subzero, it'll boot... I think

Have you moved the setup (cpu+hd) from 790FX to 770 chipset without windows reinstall? If so have you had issues with monitoring apps?

I tried both a new and an old install. Fact is, the new one didn't start when installing and the old one did and showed nothing wrong. Same drivers.

Beside it's bad that the psu is defect the software seems to be usefull.

Achim, it is definitely very useful. Saves a heck of a time! One little dilemma appears, as in why when you change the voltage rail output, i.e. from 5.00V to 5.15V, the actual rail voltage does not move.

My power consumption examples where all measured with the power meter, the psu did not arrive yesterday.

Ah ok. Returned mine today. It's worse for me since I pick it up from uncles place which means someone at their branch has to contact Gigabyte directly or distributor if they got it through that and return it.. then wait for a new one, whereas then I have to go and get it.