Ok, I recieved my 9500 yesterday and tested it in an M2N-SLi deluxe mobo. I have both 790X and 790FX boards from MSi to test aswell but wanted to see how well a quad would fair in an AM2 mobo.
Firstly the ASUS M2N-SLi deluxe mobo wouldn't post with the 9500 inplace until flashed with the latest bios (1302). After a quick flash of bios, system posted and proceeded to boot no problem.
Now, I had to spend a few hours battling with this new bios since it would seem to have a few bugs. Since flashing the bios to 1302 I no longer have access to the cpu multi from within the bios, nor can I set the northbridge multi (since this is AM2 mobo not AM2+). In windows speedfan no longer works, neither does memset (not for this chipset) nor AM2tools
On the bright side though AMD-overdrive and Ai booster perform well, excluding the 3 different memory speeds I see reported by AMD-overdrive/cpuz/everest.
I'm sorting out my screenies at the moment, I'll post cpuz screeny and a few bench screens in a couple of mins.
so far in the AM2 mobo, 2700mhz on stock volts.
stepping is as follows
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