Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
That's a guess by me and that's only Tcase (center of IHS). Tjunction (internal diode) temp. is higher. But yeah 55C seems very close to what it is. The diodes in k10h also have an errata where they read too low temps.
You just have to use common sense and basic physics knowledge to discern whats correct and not; 1.4V/155W on a 1.23V/95W TDP chip is going to be very high load temps. In the 70-75C region Tjunction with a TRUE and 2x 105CFM Deltas, 20C ambients, which is not far from the throttling temp.

Brother, you'll need to read quite a lot for Phenom, it 'aint that simple as X2/C2. Spend some useful time now and quit messing around


Achim and aGeoM should know all there is to it without you needing any other material.
Drop your NB to 6x and the MEM to 667 mode, blast coolers on full then try oc'ing Phenom.
ok, I give up. I was lucky not melting the board when I did 2900Mhz @1.53v

KTE, OCing in my point of view, isn't lowering nothing, more CPU/NB/HT/MEM MHz @ the most stable configs, finding the balance (G spot ) it's my gold, for 24/7 use and smooth as silk gaming. When targeting some hwbot's scores then I clock someting down to achive it. For me Phenom in some way isn't different from X2 or K6-2, only have more variables to play.
That's why I'm a litlle frustraded with DFI compared with ASUS/MSI, she's cold like Artic waters, maybe that's why I'm getting so low temps.