220w CPU in TDP 125W mb

[masselin13]

Hi,
I have a gigabyte 970a-ds3p rev2, I just bought a fx-9590 without knowing my mobo doesnt suppport 220w.

at first launch it told me the cpu is unsupported by this mb.
I still managed to launch windows easily and all is working good
benchmark raised since last cpu (it was phenom II 965).
Everything is listed as 8 core and 4.7 ghz in cpuz

nothing is burning up and I have a decent water cooling system.

My question is, do you think it will perform even better with a supported motherboard? ss it currently running at 220w or lower?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

If it is running good I would not mess with it. The AM3 platform is dead and I would not spend any money on a new motherboard for a 9590.

 

[Barty1884]

Nothing is burning up...... yet.

The VRMs on that board are just not up to the task, and stability will be an issue in the near future.

Will it perform "better" ? Long-term, absolutely (and whether that's days, weeks or months from now would be guesswork.... but my guess would be sooner rather than later).

Saying that, the 9590 is not a great CPU by any stretch.... and will depend what your use case is.

 

[Snipergod87]

VRM's are going to be a problem, even more so with a water cooling loop as there isn't air flowing over the VRM's.

 

[jaslion]

Hi,
I have a gigabyte 970a-ds3p rev2, I just bought a fx-9590 without knowing my mobo doesnt suppport 220w.

at first launch it told me the cpu is unsupported by this mb.
I still managed to launch windows easily and all is working good
benchmark raised since last cpu (it was phenom II 965).
Everything is listed as 8 core and 4.7 ghz in cpuz

nothing is burning up and I have a decent water cooling system.

My question is, do you think it will perform even better with a supported motherboard? ss it currently running at 220w or lower?

By the time your board breaks (which it will rather sooner than later) just move to a different platform. A ryzen 1200 outperforms the 9590 and is currently just a 100$ cpu. To get any decent motherboard that supports that cpu you will end up spending 120$+. Thats about halfway to a motherboard+cpu+ram upgrade to a new better platform.

Also did you do a prime 95 test with the 9590 to see if it actually keeps functioning after going full load for even a couple of minutes?

 

[masselin13]

Hi,
I have a gigabyte 970a-ds3p rev2, I just bought a fx-9590 without knowing my mobo doesnt suppport 220w.

at first launch it told me the cpu is unsupported by this mb.
I still managed to launch windows easily and all is working good
benchmark raised since last cpu (it was phenom II 965).
Everything is listed as 8 core and 4.7 ghz in cpuz

nothing is burning up and I have a decent water cooling system.

My question is, do you think it will perform even better with a supported motherboard? ss it currently running at 220w or lower?

By the time your board breaks (which it will rather sooner than later) just move to a different platform. A ryzen 1200 outperforms the 9590 and is currently just a 100$ cpu. To get any decent motherboard that supports that cpu you will end up spending 120$+. Thats about halfway to a motherboard+cpu+ram upgrade to a new better platform.

Also did you do a prime 95 test with the 9590 to see if it actually keeps functioning after going full load for even a couple of minutes?

I just tried Prime95 . my pc crashed after 5 minutes testing.all went black but the power supply was still running.
the motherboard temperature chipset was 45c. and I cant get any temperature from the cpu sensor.
I was able to play gtav in high settings for hours yesterday

 

[Barty1884]

The CPU, nor chipset is where the issues are going to lie. It's in power delivery and overheating VRMs. The only way to accurately capture VRM temps is with dedicated hardware, no software will capture that.

 

[masselin13]

I might keep an eye on it and keep light gaming for a bit

 

[zyh1987]

At game, your are not at 100% usage, and your cpu connector should hold at idle and light use. When you run benchmark. the cpu calls for like 200w of power at 1.5v, you draw like 125A from the vrm that’s too much current going thru the phases, vrm will get hot and shuts off. You are lucky that you didn’t start fire. Some board don’t have advance safety feature build in and mosfets, caps and inductors will just start popping.

 

[jaslion]

At game, your are not at 100% usage, and your cpu connector should hold at idle and light use. When you run benchmark. the cpu calls for like 200w of power at 1.5v, you draw like 125A from the vrm that’s too much current going thru the phases, vrm will get hot and shuts off. You are lucky that you didn’t start fire. Some board don’t have advance safety feature build in and mosfets, caps and inductors will just start popping.

Also don't forget the quite high chance to damage another part of the pc by overloading the board.