This is were it gets interesting. Newegg got everything here on friday. Which is great. I got started as soon as I got off work. When I fired it up last night after getting all the painting done and moding the side case with the tinted glass Temps were very good. I downloaded the lastest bios file dated at 04/22/08 (1903) and in my bios update file it is showing the date as being 04/03/2008 I believe.
When I opened up the phenom it looked like to me that it had been opened already and had a little of the stock paste left on it, checked the stock cooler and it still had its paste square on it. Not sure whats up with that, would the egg send out a used 9850 to replace the one I RMA"d ???
Right from the start of trying to load up windows I had the same problem with the 9850 they sent back. I have been talking to another person from the ASUS forums and he got his 9850 on the same board to 2.9 on air with very little adjustments on the Vcore, stable no blue screens with 2nd processor error. So I looked around some more and the one that are having problems with the 9850 are on different boards, AM2+ and AM2, 770 chipset, 790fx chipset. One thing that seems to still be present is the problem with the 9850's. Mine will not run stable without me under clocking it to a 12 multi and it drops it down to 2.41Ghz with the Vcore taken down to 1.2 volts. With these setting and the new case with all the fans and airflow I now have it is stayin at 33-35C at Idle and not over 44C at load. Vista rates evey component at 5.9 now, new seagate 7000.11 32mb cach is awsome! I have not tried to bench it yet, have to down load it, and been to busy working out the bugs.
I really don't know what to think anymore about this, could a guy get so unlucky to get two bad processors from the egg, or did they shipp mine back to me?? I really don't believe this is my board causing problems here, cuz two other people with almost the same set up as mine are running theres with no problems at all. I am going to get a new AM2+ board next week, but I am really having doubts about investing anymore into this spider platforum thinking that its a crap shoot, bad second core/ good second core. Even at 2.41 this phenom is nice, runs as smooth as my 6400+ seems as quick. I am just wondering if the bios is still buggy from asus that is supporting these 9850'S. Given what I am seeing here I could of just paid about $15.00 less and got the 9750 and got the same processor given that I had to bump everything down so it wouldn't blue screen on me. Anyone have luck yet with there 9850 upgrade/ AM2 board