Just an Update on the DS5 F5 Bios..

First off I was wrong about the "Memory Controller Volt" option raising the voltage on the IMC/NB. It was an honest mistake , looks like what they did was raise the base NB v's, so when I changed it from AUTO to "-.00xxx" it lowered the V's from 1.138, which was still higher than what it gave me with the F4 bios default, confused yet?

To make a long story short, changing the IMC volt option from AUTO (Now 1.138v's) to the "-x.xxxx" numbers it shows actually does lower the voltage by that amount from 1.138.. Moral of the story, leave it at AUTO.

This bios has actually given me a very good boost in NB performance, I could barely get it stable at 1930Mhz with F4. Here's a SS of my new OC using the F5 version.



The higher NB helped overall performance quite a bit! I don't have a really strong 96BE, and this is the best stable OC I've ever gotten out of it, so I'm fairly happy. Now they just need to give us some PLUS voltage options for the NB/IMC...

nate39: I agree with Aussie. I played with the autoexpress feature too to no effect using a Phenom processor. But it didn't cause any problems either.

Quote Originally Posted by Carath
I'm running 2643(12x) with ht@220, NB@1760, HTT@1540 and I've just hit 60C with Prime's small FFT. I have Thermalright 128i and I wonder if it's ok for Phenom 9600BE.
Carath, I have 2 Phenoms and both of them run better with lower voltages (~1.25v's). I could squeeze a little more out of them by raising the CPU v's, but it ussually wasn't much and generated a lot of heat that lead to serious instability. I realize no 2 chips are the same, but at least with mine anything over 50c was shakey (see SS above).

If your not running high CPU v's, you may want to check your HSF and make sure it's seated well.