Recent content by l33tmaan

I'll try some more intense things to test it, but yeah, it's all good for now! Thanks for your help. Funny enough, my last CPU was from 2011 and only 3.2 GHz. Even gimping this uber-CPU is still faster than what I had before.

Yeah, that's all I changed. I haven't noticed any performance issues or anything.

Well, my CPU finally came in today. Took long enough. Of course, when I pop it in and get the fan back on, I get a red CPU LED and it won't boot. Alright, fine, I just put the damn 9590 back in. For the past week, I've been sitting at 170 on my CPU Ratio. That's the only setting I changed, as I...

The pic I took with my phone has trouble showing the exact numbers. The CPU Bus Frequency is 200 and the PCIE Frequency is set to Auto. If I had to guess, it's the CPU Bus Frequency? http://i.imgur.com/g6QPlz9.jpg Oh, I've got an AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core on the way. I'm fairly certain that...

Okay, cool, that's the one I changed. It was the only thing that said "Turbo", so... yeah. Funny enough, I've already gotten two freezes this morning, and I haven't even finished my coffee yet.

I *think* I just turned off the turbo boost setting. However, I'm not sure exactly which voltage setting I should be messing with or how much to turn it down by.

Well, part of the problem is that the CPU is too good for my motherboard. According to PCPartPicker, "CPU thermal design power (TDP) of 220W exceeds motherboard maximum of 125W." I have a feeling that my issues are tied to when the AMD FX-9590 tries to draw more than 125W from the system. But...

I'm running a Hyper 212 EVO. It doesn't run super hot, I stay at around 50 C when playing most games... before it freezes. And no, it's not OC'd at all, I've never felt comfortable messing around in the BIOS enough for that. I'm pretty sure my 650i doesn't have enough power to run it...

I haven't had CPU problems like this before either, but a fair amount of people with the same chip have left reviews saying the same thing. Random freezing during games or resource intensive activities, the fact that it eats up power and farts out so much heat you need an intense fan on top...

Hey, good news! I did a little more researching, and it seems like the AMD FX 9590 is plagued with stability issues unless you have a specific setup, plus it eats up power. I'm confident that's the issue now, it's just a shame that it took me longer than 30 days to figure it out. Nice CPU, AMD.

Well, I put in the old motherboard and... now I'm typing at you from my computer. I guess the new motherboard was crap. I've put in a new order for a bunch of parts, I'm going to be rebuilding this thing mostly from scratch (all I'm keeping are peripherals and my drives). I probably should have...

Hahahaha, I had the exact same motherboard on hand, so I swapped it out, and for good measure I detached my HDD too. Now my computer won't post at all, all I get is a red CPU LED. I've messed around with enough ASUS motherboards to suspect that either the new motherboard I have is crap, or the...

I just downloaded Heaven and tried running it. Tried. It froze during that, too. I haven't considered it yet, but do you think it could be the HDD?

I swapped the cables on my HDD and SSD. Still getting freezes. If it helps, I ran another stress test on my GPU and CPU at the same time. I got these temps with no freezing, and my computer never gets this hot normally: http://imgur.com/KYvEw4Y Any more ideas would be helpful.

WOW, as soon as I made that post, I froze again! I was just on the HDD! Jesus christ, this is maddening, I'm back at square one again! I guess I should just swap the MOBO at this point, huh?