Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

[KTE]

1. Does this motherboard has "Max ASYNC limit" setting?

In BIOS, no.

2. What is the consensus between you and Tony on the Phenom liking high MHz or tighter timings?

Higher RAM+NB MHz.
I've not seen anyone have 2GB NB and beat 13GB/s in Sandra yet at 2.7G CPU. If someone can beat that which I showed a long while back, in 32bit XP, then we might know if lower latency helps.
4-4-4-4 1T 520 did not beat 626 5-5-5-15 though.

3. Is it better to do 4gb (4 - 1gb sticks or 2 - 2gb sticks) or if going for 8gb (4 - 2gb sticks or 2 - 4gb sticks)

I would say 4x1GB and 4x2GB is the way to go.

Thanks KTE, you really are awesome.

You're very welcome mate but I think you're more awesome

So you decided on the Corsair?

You guys have any idea when the SB710 or SB750 is coming out for the 790FX boards? I wonder if that will help out with any over clocking possibly?

710, June, maybe, not sure...

Why do all of you guys spend Thousands on Hardware components but find No worth or Justification in Upgrading the Slowest Component in the Entire System?? I just don't get it!

Dedicated True Harware Raid Controller FTW

Thanks for buying me one pal
I knew I could count on you.

Whens it being shipped?

Compare the price/perf for me when you get time please
I usually play Firefox and Thunderbird quite a lot and oh yeah, MSN too.
So a test of how much benefit a PCIe RAID 5xRaptors gives compared to 1xRaptor on SB600 using the above programs would be very nice and appreciated

I use an 16GB USB stick as result storage while overclocking and copy that stuff on a regular basis to my local fileserver. If I'm not at home i can access my local network via a pptp tunnel.
Can you access the drive with dd_rescue?

No idea, lost it, when system boots with the drive attached it gets stuck at POST and boots very slow. Doesn't recognize drive anymore i.e. ROM.
I'll get it scanned first with WD tools but had no time yet and it doesn't pick up in Windows.
All my K10 info is on there, all of the latest. I hadn't backed up 9850BE info yet.

I installed debian/lenny yesterday on my 780G test system.
For installation i use the "expert" modus. I downsized the wxp partition to 250GB and created a 4GB swap partinion and a 246GB system partition.
During installation I only installed the basic system without desktop stuff.
Lenny uses grub2 now, did not know there is a second version available. Seems to be able to use higher resolution graphic modes.
After the installation finished i used aptitude to install "Desktop" and "Gnome-Desktop" stuff. Took ~6min's to get all the packaes from the net over my 16GBit connection. (Had used a 3GBit connection last time so i was impressed).
"Desktop" and "Gnome Desktop" meta packages do not include xdm or gdm, which is a good thing if the card does not work out of the box.
I installed the fglrx packages and module-assistant.
I started module-assistant, made and installed a fglrx-kernel package. Afterwards I simply replaced "vesa" with "fglrx" in the Display section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
I started X and fgl_gears (or so) worked and looked accelerated in terms of speed.
All that took aprx. 30minutes.

Then I installed the compiz stuff with synaptic package manager.
My current Desktop system for some strange reason did not boot my lenny install (had it installed on the M3A and moved it to the M2A-VM).
I moved that systems hd to my 780G setup and tried to customize xorg.conf.
In short it did not work and I went tru dozends for forums and tried all types of modifications without luck.
I booted my other desktop's system which succesfully ran compiz on the M3A (not sure if i had used the hd2600xt or the hd2400pro that time).
compiz did not work here also. I also had beryl/emmerald installed on that system before. I was able to start berly but the emerald window decorators did not show up (guess some stuff got overwritten from compiz/compiz-fusion). However if I opened or closed windows i saw 3d-effects.
Will try to sole the problem more systematic later (after at least 8 hrs of office work) today, all above testings where AIGLX related, i have not tried XGL yet.

Thanks for the detailed info
I've had Compiz running once in Ubuntu 64b, but some update messed it up.
I'll try again, have 2 free drives now.

If I madea monolith block to cover MOSFETs and northbridge, would any here be interested in it?

Nice idea, any pics?
They would help people interested

Not sure if someone mentioned it but the "newest' (1.4) BIOS regulates NB speed instead of HT,so setting "HT ratio" in bios, actually sets the NB speed, and HT stays at default, but can be changed in windows with AOD

Thanks man, but... are you positive?
Tried multiple combos?
I'll have to try that one, our prayers have been answered indirectly

Are there any PCIe cards that anyone has used? Cause PCI is
not the fastest part of any system, no matter how good the card is.(Brother )

Yea PCIe 8x RAID cards, we use many for professional builds, but like I mentioned, I'm just not as geek to buy one for a home build and Camp usually steals all of them from etailers anyway