K9A2 CF-F - New PC Question

[nolan_strong]

I recently built a new PC for my gf from parts ordered off newegg. The motherboard and CPU were bought in a combo deal, thus I trusted newegg's judgement. However, I also double checked with the manufacturer website to note CPU support, but was slightly mislead, and didn't realize until after I ordered the parts that the first version of the motherboard had 125W processor support pulled due to some freak mosfet failures. The processor currently paired with the MSI K9A2 CF-F (not version 2) is the Phenom 9850. My question is this, should this motherboard be able to last paired with the 9850 clocked down from 2.5ghz to 2.3ghz (Phenom 9600 speed) at stock voltage and the HT link running at 1.8ghz as apposed to 2.0ghz? I also added a few heatsinks to the mosfets, kindof mucked up on the install of those but all mosfets are atleast slightly covered by heatsinks.

Full Specs:
Raidmax 530W Semi-modular power supply
MSI K9A2 CF-F
AMD Phenom 9850
4GB of DDR2-1066 Kingston Hyperx RAM (4x1GB)
LG 20X SATA DVD-RW
250GB Maxtor SATA II HD
Sapphire Radeon 3870
Sigma Zen Case with 1x Rear 120mm Fan, 1x 80mm Side Fan, and 1x PCI-Slot 90mm Exhaust Fan

Thanks,
Nolan

 

[jim48509]

I bought a K9A2 CF with an Athlon 64 X2 6400 before I found out that the board didn't support that part. I have been running the board with the 6400 clocked back from 3.2 Ghz to 2.8 Ghz which is the freq of the highest supported 64 X2. This has been working fine since late Jan.
I know it is not a direct answer but in the case of the Athlon it does work.
If you update the bios after you have changed the clock it will go back to its original setting so you will have to clock it back again.

Hope this helps.

 

[coldneutron]

it's anybody's guess if the mobo will last, but clocking it down reduces power consumption which can't hurt. the mosfets could have been defective or overrated etc. probably only the mosfet mfg has the answer. they might not even know.

 

[coldneutron]

p.s. never trust that any of those combo deals are verified to be compatible or supported by the mobo mfg other than the cpu socket compatability

 

[87thrteam]

Ok, I have the same mobo (v1) and the reason why this version does not support 125w processors is because the mosfets have no heatsinks = overheating and burning out.

This is the new version and it does support the 125's
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130172&Tpk=k9a2%2bcf

And here is my mobo with mosfet heatsinks
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c381/Engelstrider/MSIK9A2CF.jpg

Hope you enjoy and can stop underclocking those phenoms....

 

[FrozenGpu]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowI...ription=MSI+K9A2+Platinum+ATX+AMD+Motherboard

I have the K9A2 platinum v1, when it first came out, i put a fx-62 in there and its running beautifully, I wanted to put in a phenom, now the mosfet's do have heat sinks on them, right?

 

[87thrteam]

My mobo does have heatsinks on the mosfets if that is what you are asking and the platinum aswell...if I am correct

 

[FrozenGpu]

k, just checking, b/c sometimes im not too sure