Phenom 9950 Overclocking

[xaris106]

If you can get it to boot stable at 3Ghz with Bios, I would suggest that you leave it there and use AOD to turn it up until you find the stablility limit. That way, if it crashes you'll still have a good BIOS setting to reboot from without having to reset CMOS.

Yeah I have it stable at 3GHz from bios (8h prime) and I use AOD with these settings as base to try for more, as you suggest. Didn't have to clearcmos even once so far.AOD is a nice tool for trying things out - not sure if some settings work though, with no feedback from another program, like in the cpu vnb setting. No luck so far above 3GHz. I can run spi 1M at 3.2GHz with the same settings as the stable 3GHz, but I bsod instantly when I start prime. Maybe I`ll try more Vcore or HTT and clock straight from the bios.
As for the mobo I hope it clocks more. All those heat sinks and bios settings are eye candy? :/ Thats why I got it...

Thank you for the input.

Anyone knows why cpu-z does not report core voltage?Maybe it doesnt support the mobo yet?