Just ordered Phenom 9950 BE

[Titan7171]

dont take this the wrong way but....why?

Because it fits in my motherboard

WTG, Titan... I just noticed they became availible on the Egg today.

Be sure to update us when you get it installed, I'm curious too!

I have a few tips for you if your interested, since I'm running a similar setup.

1) Coming from the X2 it's easy to go crazy with voltages on Phenoms... Just be aware that it's not always the best option, and many times you'll get better/more stable results at lower v's. Phenoms seem to be more sensitive to electro-migration.

2) The v1.5 bios for the K9A2 is the best release version so far for Phenom, even though it doesn't have a NB Multi option it's pretty easy to OC the HT Ref clock to 210~220 (2100~2200 IMC) which has been pretty close to the stability limit on all 3 of my Phenoms.

3) My best chip (9850) is actually only truely stable @ 2.835 Ghz. Hopefully the 9950 will be better, but if your looking for true stability don't get sucked into all the 3.5 stuff you see some people posting...

Good Luck and Have Fun!!
If you like to OC these chips are a blast to play with...

Yes overclocking is fun Im going to need some tips for bios settings as I heard they are very different from X2 settings

let us know how it goes.

Definitely, I cant wait. I've been wanting a quad for a while.

Ive already seen one 9950@3.6ghz with the stock cooler for max OC and 3.3ghz stable...I was ready to order a 9850BE in the NEXT WEEK ,,So now i guess ill be ordering a 9950BE because of the newer batches...the silicon is improving),,Like a nice wine we shall see with time....

Get that puppy Oced and make it Barrrrk WOLFiNsheepSkin!

P.S. http://forums.amd.com/forum/messagev...&enterthread=y Greek 3.6ghz

thats a good overclock I hope I can at least get 3ghz out of it

I'd love to know how these chips fly. Cheers for the future info.

Cheers to you to

If you're a gamer you would really benefit from a HD 4870 GPU upgrade. I have a lowly Opteron 185@2.88Ghz and installed a Diamond 4870 yesterday to replace my 2900XT. It is 2x faster in all my games with AA and AF cranked. Without AA and AF its over 2x faster than my old 2900XT. Since you have a 3.5Ghz X2, you'll see your biggest gains from a GPU upgrade. It will definitely tide you over until you can get your hands on an SB750 mobo.

I had the money for the card but I felt my cpu would bottleneck......so Id take the cpu upgrade then the GC upgrade. No matter what I would go with the 4870X2 so this cpu would hinder me even more. In my eyes the most logical upgrade at this point would be cpu.

On a side note I ordered it yesterday and it shipped today from NJ and I live in NY so it should get here quick.