Quote Originally Posted by iandh View Post
Ok, good, I almost went into nerd rage mode when I plugged my shiny new chip in and got crazy readings from AOD. Not only does it read my clocks wrong, it reads my HT and mem speed wrong as well. CPU-Z reads perfectly according to what I think it should, although I don't know if the 1Ghz HT link is normal? I'm kinda new here at Phenom OC'ing.

You're lucky though, I can't even change any settings in AOD, if I move the multi even one notch and hit apply my computer crashes and restarts.

This is on a fresh windows install with fresh AOD install BTW...
AOD is "just" a program relying on "peek&poke" the correct registers in BIos and do similar for the PLL (the latter must be identified correctly).
Ideally one should think:
Hey! It is an AMD CPU, an AMD chipset! Everything should work!
But most MB manufacturers have their own "propriety" OC-utility, certain Bios-tweaks, akwards PLL..etc.
So "old school" OC via Bios are the safest bet.
Then again, DFI, Abit (uGuru), Asus (AI Tune), Gigabyte(Eyastune) have become rather OK for the casual "clocker".