Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

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I'm not going to push it yet, validator has a bug that its rejecting many different legitimate CPUs of users outright. Once its fixed by Sam/Franck, I'll go into it like a train, I know it wants it, I can hear it scream.... give me 1.7v....

I want my steak medium please.

I'm going back to basics to sort the problems out. Testing 200x14 2800 at 1.4v idle / 1.376v load ATM. You have an advantage, your BIOS are far better for bootup oc with all volts and multis, we don't have that on this board so things are a lot harder to work with and oc.
Last time, 1.45v was what I needed for 200x14.5 2900 stability. My main aim isn't bench stability though, load stability has been a lot easier on my Phenoms than WISE stability

CPU starts to behave odd for a while after too much heat and voltage lovin.
Benched 2.8GHz/2.0GHz 1066-5-5-5-16-18 today. I get better results with 5-5-5-16-18 than with 5-5-5-15-11 btw also the ram needs ~2.05V now.
Stability testing 2.8GHz/2.0GHz at 1.3125V/1.285V over night, will bench that tomorrow and go for 2.8/2.4 then.
Will post a summary of benchmarks results for 2.8 at different NB speeds then.
After that ill go for 3GHz ref HT wise.

By the looks of it, your board changes VIDs where voltages should be changed. The MSI can do CnQ at any voltage/MHz [as long as its stable] and yep, thanks to Sams tool, tweaking is far far far easier - I just apply everything through it

Slammed mode, VID's are not used only p-state register modification works. Whithout that VID's are reported as stock.

Calibrated Odin current readings with clamp ammeter, so check those, then AC watt meter and DMM for volts, system VAC and then work out power. Have traced each rail back, so I know which rail is powering which component to distinguish between all.

I'm new to those mesurements. Saw that 12V1 is for the cpu only. I guess i can verify at least the volts with a DMM on the rails?

Yup, been cross-checking with yours to see if any of my settings were unstable [when unstable, there will be a performance drop]

Those where all ran in unganged mode.

Have you tried the 2200 800 comparison we did before yet?
Since we already have B2 perf. known, would be good to add B3 perf. to it too
I'll add Abit 770 and GBT 780G scores to it soon aswell, need to flash a new BIOS on them before that or they don't boot Phenom B3.

Expecting the GBT 780G here also. Have not yet tried the 2200 800 comparison but i expect a slight performance drop due to the hardware tlb workaround.