FWIW man, PHII's are very sensitive to voltage unless you can keep temps under control. From my experience cranking voltages to find your stable clocks and then lowering them afterwards is NOT the best technique....
It's tedious, but you'll get better results by testing each component seperatly and only raising the voltage until you get diminishing results, at that point move on to the next component (ie: Mem/CPU/IMC)...
The bios (on the 790XT-DDR3 version at least) is quirky with the CPU-NBvid setting and it's impossible to tell what it's actually set at.
+.275 seems a little high to me and may be part of your problem.
Unlocking any chip for extra cores also screws temp readings on all mobos as far as I know, so unless your measuring with external hardware (DMM/TempProbe) take the software readings with a grain of salt.
On my board (MA790XT-UD4P), HWMonitor seems to give a fairly accurate reading of the CPUcore with the "TMPIN1" temp. Every Phenom I've ever had gets squirly when the core goes >53c, watch this temp and if you notice the same tendancies either adjust your cooling or voltages to keep it in check..
Hope this helps, OC the way you see fit, but cranking voltages isn't always the best way to work with Phenoms....
Originally Posted by Daveburt714
FWIW man, PHII's are very sensitive to voltage unless you can keep temps under control. From my experience cranking voltages to find your stable clocks and then lowering them afterwards is NOT the best technique....
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