First post on bit-tech, with a noob-ish question that whilst not life threatening, is really starting to annoy me: I've just finished my first desktop rig after five years of carting around the same MSI notebook, it's running an AM2 Phenom 9850 on a Gigabyte MA790FX-DQ6 mobo with 2 x 2GB DDRII PC1066 Ram and a 4870 GPU on 32 bit Vista. But for some reason, Vista is convinced I'm running a Phenom 9830. I initially thought I'd been ripped off with a lesser CPU then the one I ordered, but the box was properly sealed, and clearly states '9850' on it. I downloaded the latest updates to Vista, for my mobo and core, but still, it claims to be a 9830. It's even convinced AMD Overdrive and my BIOS that my new CPU is a 9830. But.... there is no such chip as a 9830. I've scoured the web, and according to AMD's own website, they don't make a CPU called a 9830. There are no performance issues so far, it runs like a dream, but interestingly, AMD's Overdrive software hangs when ever I try to tune optimal settings. I haven't tweaked it in BIOS yet. Anyone else ever had this problem?
If it's just a naming issue. Live with it and you can even boast about having the only known 9830 Phenom.
