Recent content by OldTimerOnPC

I think I finally got somewhere. This motherboard is supposed to be able to handle this processor no problem, and I probably still have an issue, but I've gotten a 4.4 GHz overclock semi-stable. I cannot run prime95, Burn Test, anything like that on all cores at once. The heat just blows up. I...

No, I meant 4th module, they failed in pairs. It's not unheard of as it was the same way on my previous Phenom II. That was the whole reasoning behind the unlockable cores in that series. They were hit or miss. I couldn't even boot up if I turned the 4th one on with that chip. I've narrowed a...

It looks like the 4th module could be bad. In prime 95, I decided to try the BIOS optimal settings. Prime95 gave me a fatal error on #8 and a illegal sumout on #7 with just a 215 FSB. Everything else continues to run and stable at around 53-55 degrees. Problem is, I bet newegg won't exchange or...

And it was not the bios, which I figured. Going back to the last version and temperatures still shoot off like a rocket at stock manual settings. I don't get how running it on auto, CPU-Z can say it is running at 4.2 GHz turbo clock, and Prime95 won't go past 40 degrees. Fix it at 4.0 GHz, and...

Haven't tried that. Let me give it a go in a bit, but that kind of scares me. Yours lasts 15 minutes at 1.35 but mine can't go even go 5 at 1.325? Just to test here, I loaded in at 4.5 GHz, just upping the multiplier and put it at 1.35V. It'll load up, run and all, but it hits 61 after just one...

All voltages are manually set by me at this point. I have the CPU at 1.325 and CPU/NB at 1.2. All the cool'n'quiet is disabled, anything like that that could potentially keep the system from doing what it should.

So I this past week I decided to upgrade my machine, so here's what I'm working with... What's new: FX-8350 Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO What's old: Cooler Master Elite 335 case AMD 5770 g.skill 8GB DDR3-1600 SSD, HDD, etc... Now my last setup was a Phenom II that I...