Limited vcore 990FXA-GD65

I have a 990FXA-GD65 and from what I can tell there is a revision 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0.  What is the best, most accurate way of finding out the revision of the board?  Also, do any of the beta bioses allow more voltage adjustment?  The vcore can only be set to 1.45v in the bios, it can go higher in AMD Overdrive.  I'd like to not use overdrive anymore but the board doesnt allow enough Vcore adjustment for me to do so.

Its been a BIOS restriction for a long time, and it was introduced when the FX8000 series were launched.
These CPUs start spiking to over 200Watt TDP when overclcoking. The board was designed before these CPUs were launched and thus the VRMs are not safe at those power requirement levels. To protect the VRMs from burning up, the restriction was added.

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  • 990fxa-gd65 bios setting

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  • 990fxa-gd65

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  • 990FXA-GD65 and the pwrconn1

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  • 990fxa gd65+win8.1 are the latest AMD chipset drivers needed?

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  • Starting New Build with 990FXA-GD65

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  • Msi 990fxa-gd65 posting problem

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  • MSI Military Class II 990FXA-GD65 - No Signal

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