- Jan 19, 2019
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Greetings. I use old hardware, reason being mainly accessible prices. Recently I replaced my processor (An Athlon II X4 620 I've been using since 2011) for an FX-8320 Black Edition, which has the same socket but is a pretty steep upgrade despite also being somewhat old. After installing it on my Motherboard (an ASUSTeK M5A78L-M/USB3 I bought in 2014) strange things began to happen. Windows started normally, perhaps faster, but there were random visual and audio glitches on everything I ran, seemingly harmless but ever-present, specially browsing resource-heavy internet websites or playing any form of audio or video files. Games launch without problem, but all audio drowns in strange static noises and all geometry seizures wildly across the screen.
I rolled drivers for everything backwards and forwards, same goes for the Motherboard's Bios, I even changed my OS but it didn't fix or diminish the problem. I tried then to replace my current Graphics Card (GTX 1050 Ti) for my old one (GTX 550 Ti) to see if it was a matter of compatibility between GPU and CPU but the problems persisted. I had settled on the problem being the CPU being somehow damaged or faulty (despite reading perfectly on diagnostic tools such as Speccy), when I discovered that the problem goes away for individual programs if I reduce their affinity number through the Task Manager to any 2 cores or less. It's bizarre considering that the previous CPU had four cores and nothing like this ever happened.
I have hope that this is somehow a software configuration problem, and that it can be solved to make the computer work well with the FX-8320, I've temporarily disabled 6 of the 8 cores so that I do not have to manually set affinity numbers for every program, every time I launch it, but it's a makeshift solution, as it takes away the reason for the upgrade in the first place. I do not know what diagnostic files or logs would be of use to put alongside this post, but I can dig out anything that could help diagnose and solve this problem. Many thanks in advance.
I rolled drivers for everything backwards and forwards, same goes for the Motherboard's Bios, I even changed my OS but it didn't fix or diminish the problem. I tried then to replace my current Graphics Card (GTX 1050 Ti) for my old one (GTX 550 Ti) to see if it was a matter of compatibility between GPU and CPU but the problems persisted. I had settled on the problem being the CPU being somehow damaged or faulty (despite reading perfectly on diagnostic tools such as Speccy), when I discovered that the problem goes away for individual programs if I reduce their affinity number through the Task Manager to any 2 cores or less. It's bizarre considering that the previous CPU had four cores and nothing like this ever happened.
I have hope that this is somehow a software configuration problem, and that it can be solved to make the computer work well with the FX-8320, I've temporarily disabled 6 of the 8 cores so that I do not have to manually set affinity numbers for every program, every time I launch it, but it's a makeshift solution, as it takes away the reason for the upgrade in the first place. I do not know what diagnostic files or logs would be of use to put alongside this post, but I can dig out anything that could help diagnose and solve this problem. Many thanks in advance.
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