amd fx 9590

[Ruben_17]

The wattage on this CPU is marked as 220w and I have the ASUS crosshair V formula-Z am3+ amd motherboard which says it supports 140w cpu. My computer freezes after and hour of gaming I am wondering if my CPU isn't compatible with this motherboard if not which motherboard can handle my 220w AMD fx 9590 CPU.

 

[GhislainG]

Start by disabling AMD Turbo Core in the BIOS to decrease the maximum power requirements.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Full specs?

 

[Colethelion321]

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[synphul]

The cpu 'may' work with that board but you need to make sure you're running the right bios for it and have adequate cooling. From the asus cpu support page for that mobo -

"FX-9590(FD9590FHW8KHK, 4.7GHz, 8C, L3:8M, 220W,rev.C0,AM3+) - 1403" So you need bios version 1403 installed. They also say this.
"Due to the high TDP, please be noted there are limitations while using this CPU(i.e. special thermal required..)"

Meaning you need adequate cpu cooling like liquid cooling (think h100i dual radiator type) and possible vrm cooling. If that doesn't help you out then you may want to consider the asrock 990fx extreme 9.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8316/amds-5-ghz-turbo-cpu-in-retail-the-fx9590-and-asrock-990fx-extreme9-review/9

What power supply are you using? You need a power supply that can handle the power that cpu requires. Another thing to consider, change the cpu. Drop the 9590, try to sell it to get some of your money back and choose an fx 8350 or consider intel or waiting for zen at the end of the year or beginning of the new year. Underclocking the 9590 and disabling some of the features to make it more like an 8350 to hold you over in the meantime rather than investing more money into a platform that's about to be replaced in 5-6mo.

The 9590 is a problematic cpu due to its high tdp and power requirements and isn't really worth buying more and more parts just to try to make it work properly in my opinion. Just trying to give you some alternatives to dumping even more money into it to get it to work.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

FX-9590(FD9590FHW8KHK, 4.7GHz, 8C, L3:8M, 220W,rev.C0,AM3+) ALL

It's supported as of BIOS 1403.

Your choices for the 9000 series:

Asrock 970 Performance
ASRock 990FX Extreme9
ASRock 990FX Extreme6
Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 R4.0\5.0
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7
MSI 990FXA-GD80V2
Asus 970 PRO GAMING/AURA
MSI 990FXA-GAMING

AMD.COM

Warning: This power draw of this CPU is almost twice that of the average CPU. Due to this, AMD recommends using at minimum a 850W to 1000W power supply. For cooling, AMD recommends using either either closed loop liquid cooling , h100i minimum or full system liquid cooling.

 

[g-unit1111]

i am not seeing anywhere online where it says 140w or any wattage rating really. but if it supports a FX CPU with a AM3+ socket then it well should.
please contact AMD support: http://support.amd.com/en-us to get help and to notify them of your problem.
this will notify AMD that there is an issue with certain motherboards not accepting certain chips that say they are compatible.

normally i would be able to assist you further but there is no reason apparent to me why this is happening. we only call the team in for INTEL PRODUCTS, NVIDIA GRAPHICS CARDS, and AMD GRAPHICS CARDS. sorry i could not assist you further. AMD support would be recommended or maybe someone with more experience with AMD will be able to answer your question.

Why do you need to call a team of experts when you can look this up in a 5 minute search on PC Part Picker?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

There are very few stable 9590 systems and most are custom water cooled.

 

[Karadjgne]

5 minutes? Took Google a few seconds.

 

[MeanMachine41]

The wattage on this CPU is marked as 220w and I have the ASUS crosshair V formula-Z am3+ amd motherboard which says it supports 140w cpu. My computer freezes after and hour of gaming I am wondering if my CPU isn't compatible with this motherboard if not which motherboard can handle my 220w AMD fx 9590 CPU.

The ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z , well and truly supports the FX-9590 which is an excellent processor.

The FX-9590 has a TDP draw of 220W and gets hot with insufficient cooling. Every one knows that.
It is an extreme systems CPU however at the end of life for AM3+ and next chip will be ZEN on the AM4 platform.

I bought mine for posterity and took on the challenge to conquer this beast and was very happy with the outcome.

With Bios Tweaking as is the requirement for all extreme CPUs, I was able to achieve 5.2GHz OC on both of the FX-9590 systems I built. I have also managed to help many others to achieve stability and OC this processor.

The ASUS US site for some reason does not indicate CVFZ supports up to 220W for some reason and this should have been updated long ago. Many uninformed and self proclaimed pundits have used this to discredit the CPU and MB combination. Press releases as far back as 2013 indicated this.
If you need help to OC your processor, I can help.

As with all OC challenges, I would need your full system specs to determine cooling capacity and other compatibility issues you may have. Recommended changes and Bios settings will be given if you wish.

 

[Ruben_17]

I built this computer 1 year ago it has an msi 980, 1300 watt bronze psu, full tower cooler master case, AMD FX 9590 H20 Cooled AM3+ Processor, ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard, 2 sticks of 8gb corsair vengeance ram. Corsair H60 performance 120mm water cooling.

 

[Karadjgne]

And there is the issue, overheating cpu. The h60 is 180w. Your cpu is 220w. During normal operation, you aren't reaching TDP of the cooler, just coming close. During gaming, with its much higher instruction set usage and load, you are saturating the TDP of the cooler. For normal usage, h80i or equivalent minimum, for gaming usage h100i minimum.

 

[g-unit1111]

The ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z , well and truly supports the FX-9590 which is an excellent processor.

The FX-9590 has a TDP draw of 220W and gets hot with insufficient cooling. Every one knows that.
It is an extreme systems CPU however at the end of life for AM3+ and next chip will be ZEN on the AM4 platform.

The FX-9590 is an excellent CPU provided you have the power and cooling to back it up. Because it's already a factory overclocked CPU, it's essentially a factory overclocked FX-8350. And since its' already factory overclocked to begin with, it's already prone to voltage spikes and instability commonly associated with overclocked CPUs. It's not for the faint of heart and it's definitely not the CPU to buy if you don't know what you're doing going in. It requires a monster power supply, at minimum 1KW. And it also requires a monster cooling solution - the stock cooler, nor a Hyper 212 Evo will cut it. In order to properly cool a 9590 you will need at minimum an H100i or a Noctua D15, but I doubt even the D15 could handle the 9590.

 

[Ecky]

I have a hard time seeing how it's an excellent CPU, considering it's outperformed by a less expensive i5 in just about everything, and in some cases, an i3, nevermind its heat and power issues. What qualifies it as excellent, if not comparison to similarly priced parts?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Custom water cooling is the best bet for that CPU Volcano.

 

[Karadjgne]

The 9590 is just an 8320 on steroids. Therefore whatever the FX is stronger on, the 9590 is a beast. Yes it can get topped by an i5, even at times by an i3, but by the same token the 9590 can top both. It's mostly a matter of what app. Most of the time it's a moot point anyway, doesn't matter if an i5 can push 300fps and the 9590 only 150fps in a game, chances are the user is locked to 60fps on a 1080p monitor. Don't assume games are the entirety of a cpus capability, a 9590 beats an i5 in rendering and other high thread use apps. 8 slower threads beat 4 faster threads anytime for sheer amount of work done. The i3 doesn't even come close.

 

[synphul]

The notion that more slower cores are better for high thread use apps is false. If it were true than the 8c/8t fx 9590 wouldn't get beat by 2nd and 4th gen 4c/4t i5's rendering in handbrake (which does use the extra threads).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8316/amds-5-ghz-turbo-cpu-in-retail-the-fx9590-and-asrock-990fx-extreme9-review/6

There are a few cases where the 9590 can match or surpass an i5 but the cases are rare at best. In everything else it falls behind, even when it comes to some rendering and encoding tasks. Automatically saying 'heavy threaded, more cores, fx wins' is a fairytale not supported by results.

 

[g-unit1111]

I have a hard time seeing how it's an excellent CPU, considering it's outperformed by a less expensive i5 in just about everything, and in some cases, an i3, nevermind its heat and power issues. What qualifies it as excellent, if not comparison to similarly priced parts?

Yeah you're right it really isn't. Even if you do manage to get a 9590 working properly it's still prone to unexpected voltage spikes, something you won't get with a mid range Intel i5-4XXX or 6XXX series.

 

[MeanMachine41]

Is this thread not digressing into a yet another thread war about the FX-9590 and its capability and comparison to Intel CPUs.

Hardly helpful to the original thread post and to the OP.

 

[Azazel Zel]

The FX-9590 is one hell of a nice cpu, using a liquid cooler, Formula Z MB and DDR3 2400 Ram and X2 Palit Jetstream Sli sc 970's, with an Acer Predator 32" 4k Monitor, I only just finished setting the new monitor up yesterday, I'm getting 60fps in 4k, Ultra settings in GTA V Online, it's unbelievable, maybe the G-Sync helping a lot I have no idea, all I know is what I see, beautiful true 4k gaming with 970's and an AMD cpu.

I was about to purchase x2 1070s, but going to put that purchase off for now, I really didn't think I would be getting such great performance from my current setup.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

FX 8350 on AIR.