FX-9370 overclocking not wanting to run stable

[State_2012]

So I have a 9370, currently running 4.4ghz, and have been trying to get a good stable overclock for sometime. I'm looking for something at least 4.8ghz, really hoping for 5ghz, but I just can't get it to be stable. At 5.0ghz auto voltage, as well as 1.6v, it gets to the desktop and hangs; at 4.9ghz at auto voltage, and 1.6v, it will start p95 and then freezes; at 4.8ghz and auto voltage it will run p95 for a few seconds then 2 cores will fail, typically 6 and 7, and then it will freeze. All I'm changing is the multiplier, 22 stock 25 for 5ghz, so I'm trying to limit the factors that could go wrong with each boot. Of course cool and quite, C6, and most other advanced features are disable except for hpc which I've read helps to be enabled. Really what I'm looking for is someone with the same board and preferably the same chip to show what they had to do to get everything stable and what they got to. I know it will vary board to board and chip to chip but anything to get me rolling would be great I'm tired of sitting at just stock voltage not making any real use of my Cooler Master Seidon 240m.

System:

-AMD FX 9370
-Cooler Master Seidon 240M
-WD Black Series 1TB
-XFX R9 390 8GB
-Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
-FirePower ModXStream Pro 700MXSP
-Rosewill Thor V2
-Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB

Heres a link to temps under full load at stock.

http://i.imgur.com/8IQ1VYX.png

 

[firefoxx04]

What power supply and motherboard? You are trying to push this chip VERY far. Those two components are going to be very important.


edit: I guess I cant read

 

[coolcole01]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

 

[State_2012]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

I tried some lower but went to 1.6 as a this should work kind of number and yet it still didn't work. I feel like its not the chip but its more of me being fairly new to ocing and having something somewhere wrong.

 

[State_2012]

What power supply and motherboard? You are trying to push this chip VERY far. Those two components are going to be very important.

-AMD FX 9370
-Cooler Master Seidon 240M
-WD Black Series 1TB
-XFX R9 390 8GB
-Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
-FirePower ModXStream Pro 700MXSP
-Rosewill Thor V2
-Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB

 

[coolcole01]

It really needs less do this set it to 1.48 and set it to stock then run your test every time it does the test well go up in multiplier. If it fails add voltage till it gets stable by pressing the + sign on the number pad. Little bumps over volting can mess things up quickly.

 

[Redneck5439]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

I tried some lower but went to 1.6 as a this should work kind of number and yet it still didn't work. I feel like its not the chip but its more of me being fairly new to ocing and having something somewhere wrong.

1.6V is really high and in my opinion too much. I would never push it past 1.55V. I have been thinking about pushing my Vcore to 1.55 to see if I can hit higher than 5.3Ghz, but right now my best overclock is 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V on FX 8370. I know AMD set the FX 9370 to run higher base wattage, but 1.6V you really risk frying it. I would set the Vcore at 1.5V and overclock using nothing but the multiplier, use manual voltage and ensure all power saving features are turned off (ie turbo core, cool n quiet, ect..). Once you have a stable overclock you can re enable cool n quiet, but nothing else (will allow the processor to idle @ 1.4Ghz and throttle up to max overclock when necessary). I know that high end Asus motherboards can handle overclocking the FX 9xxx series, but I don't know if the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is truly capable of handling it.

 

[State_2012]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

I tried some lower but went to 1.6 as a this should work kind of number and yet it still didn't work. I feel like its not the chip but its more of me being fairly new to ocing and having something somewhere wrong.

1.6V is really high and in my opinion too much. I would never push it past 1.55V. I have been thinking about pushing my Vcore to 1.55 to see if I can hit higher than 5.3Ghz, but right now my best overclock is 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V on FX 8370. I know AMD set the FX 9370 to run higher base wattage, but 1.6V you really risk frying it. I would set the Vcore at 1.5V and overclock using nothing but the multiplier, use manual voltage and ensure all power saving features are turned off (ie turbo core, cool n quiet, ect..). Once you have a stable overclock you can re enable cool n quiet, but nothing else (will allow the processor to idle @ 1.4Ghz and throttle up to max overclock when necessary). I know that high end Asus motherboards can handle overclocking the FX 9xxx series, but I don't know if the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is truly capable of handling it.

What exactly were your settings to reach 5.3ghz I'm kind of curious to see if there are any big differences between what you're running and what I'm trying to run.

 

[Redneck5439]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

I tried some lower but went to 1.6 as a this should work kind of number and yet it still didn't work. I feel like its not the chip but its more of me being fairly new to ocing and having something somewhere wrong.

1.6V is really high and in my opinion too much. I would never push it past 1.55V. I have been thinking about pushing my Vcore to 1.55 to see if I can hit higher than 5.3Ghz, but right now my best overclock is 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V on FX 8370. I know AMD set the FX 9370 to run higher base wattage, but 1.6V you really risk frying it. I would set the Vcore at 1.5V and overclock using nothing but the multiplier, use manual voltage and ensure all power saving features are turned off (ie turbo core, cool n quiet, ect..). Once you have a stable overclock you can re enable cool n quiet, but nothing else (will allow the processor to idle @ 1.4Ghz and throttle up to max overclock when necessary). I know that high end Asus motherboards can handle overclocking the FX 9xxx series, but I don't know if the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is truly capable of handling it.

What exactly were your settings to reach 5.3ghz I'm kind of curious to see if there are any big differences between what you're running and what I'm trying to run.

First step with overclocking is of course to turn off ALL power saving options in bios (ie cool n quiet, turbo core, ect). When Overclocking the FX chips I always use multiplier overclocking only. I set my Vcore manually at 1.5V (I started with my very stable overclock of 5Ghz @ 1.44V and reached 5.3Ghz at 1.5V - I also had a very nice stable overclock of 5.5Ghz @ 1.55V but was not comfortable with the Vcore that high) and adjusted the multiplier for 5.3Ghz. Trying to remember if I adjusted anything else but i don't think so (I'm at my in-laws on a laptop away from my desktop right now). I believe in simple overclocking by multiplier so other than manually setting the Vcore to 1.5V I think everything else was set to Auto on my Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0. After verifying my overclock and testing with Prime 95 for stability I re-enabled Cool N Quiet so at idle the processor goes down to 1.4 Ghz and i think the Vcore also goes down to 1.2V when idling and shoots upto 1.5V and 5.3Ghz when needed). Every processor overclocks differently and my FX 8370 is 125W while your FX 9370 is 220W so yours will overclock differently. I would start with a manual Vcore of 1.5V and set your multiplier for 4.8Ghz and leave everything else on Auto setting (of course with all power saving options disabled). Once you verify stability and pass Prime 95 testing (a 15-20 min run is enough for finding max overclock) then bump up to 4.9 @ 1.5V then try for 5Ghz. You can bump Vcore up to 1.55V but I wouldn't push past that.

 

[coolcole01]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

I tried some lower but went to 1.6 as a this should work kind of number and yet it still didn't work. I feel like its not the chip but its more of me being fairly new to ocing and having something somewhere wrong.

1.6V is really high and in my opinion too much. I would never push it past 1.55V. I have been thinking about pushing my Vcore to 1.55 to see if I can hit higher than 5.3Ghz, but right now my best overclock is 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V on FX 8370. I know AMD set the FX 9370 to run higher base wattage, but 1.6V you really risk frying it. I would set the Vcore at 1.5V and overclock using nothing but the multiplier, use manual voltage and ensure all power saving features are turned off (ie turbo core, cool n quiet, ect..). Once you have a stable overclock you can re enable cool n quiet, but nothing else (will allow the processor to idle @ 1.4Ghz and throttle up to max overclock when necessary). I know that high end Asus motherboards can handle overclocking the FX 9xxx series, but I don't know if the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is truly capable of handling it.

What exactly were your settings to reach 5.3ghz I'm kind of curious to see if there are any big differences between what you're running and what I'm trying to run.

First step with overclocking is of course to turn off ALL power saving options in bios (ie cool n quiet, turbo core, ect). When Overclocking the FX chips I always use multiplier overclocking only. I set my Vcore manually at 1.5V (I started with my very stable overclock of 5Ghz @ 1.44V and reached 5.3Ghz at 1.5V - I also had a very nice stable overclock of 5.5Ghz @ 1.55V but was not comfortable with the Vcore that high) and adjusted the multiplier for 5.3Ghz. Trying to remember if I adjusted anything else but i don't think so (I'm at my in-laws on a laptop away from my desktop right now). I believe in simple overclocking by multiplier so other than manually setting the Vcore to 1.5V I think everything else was set to Auto on my Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0. After verifying my overclock and testing with Prime 95 for stability I re-enabled Cool N Quiet so at idle the processor goes down to 1.4 Ghz and i think the Vcore also goes down to 1.2V when idling and shoots upto 1.5V and 5.3Ghz when needed). Every processor overclocks differently and my FX 8370 is 125W while your FX 9370 is 220W so yours will overclock differently. I would start with a manual Vcore of 1.5V and set your multiplier for 4.8Ghz and leave everything else on Auto setting (of course with all power saving options disabled). Once you verify stability and pass Prime 95 testing (a 15-20 min run is enough for finding max overclock) then bump up to 4.9 @ 1.5V then try for 5Ghz. You can bump Vcore up to 1.55V but I wouldn't push past that.

His mobo (asus sabertooth) is a much much better board so it will take much more tweaking to get the results but the method is solid.

 

[Redneck5439]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

I tried some lower but went to 1.6 as a this should work kind of number and yet it still didn't work. I feel like its not the chip but its more of me being fairly new to ocing and having something somewhere wrong.

1.6V is really high and in my opinion too much. I would never push it past 1.55V. I have been thinking about pushing my Vcore to 1.55 to see if I can hit higher than 5.3Ghz, but right now my best overclock is 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V on FX 8370. I know AMD set the FX 9370 to run higher base wattage, but 1.6V you really risk frying it. I would set the Vcore at 1.5V and overclock using nothing but the multiplier, use manual voltage and ensure all power saving features are turned off (ie turbo core, cool n quiet, ect..). Once you have a stable overclock you can re enable cool n quiet, but nothing else (will allow the processor to idle @ 1.4Ghz and throttle up to max overclock when necessary). I know that high end Asus motherboards can handle overclocking the FX 9xxx series, but I don't know if the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is truly capable of handling it.

What exactly were your settings to reach 5.3ghz I'm kind of curious to see if there are any big differences between what you're running and what I'm trying to run.

First step with overclocking is of course to turn off ALL power saving options in bios (ie cool n quiet, turbo core, ect). When Overclocking the FX chips I always use multiplier overclocking only. I set my Vcore manually at 1.5V (I started with my very stable overclock of 5Ghz @ 1.44V and reached 5.3Ghz at 1.5V - I also had a very nice stable overclock of 5.5Ghz @ 1.55V but was not comfortable with the Vcore that high) and adjusted the multiplier for 5.3Ghz. Trying to remember if I adjusted anything else but i don't think so (I'm at my in-laws on a laptop away from my desktop right now). I believe in simple overclocking by multiplier so other than manually setting the Vcore to 1.5V I think everything else was set to Auto on my Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0. After verifying my overclock and testing with Prime 95 for stability I re-enabled Cool N Quiet so at idle the processor goes down to 1.4 Ghz and i think the Vcore also goes down to 1.2V when idling and shoots upto 1.5V and 5.3Ghz when needed). Every processor overclocks differently and my FX 8370 is 125W while your FX 9370 is 220W so yours will overclock differently. I would start with a manual Vcore of 1.5V and set your multiplier for 4.8Ghz and leave everything else on Auto setting (of course with all power saving options disabled). Once you verify stability and pass Prime 95 testing (a 15-20 min run is enough for finding max overclock) then bump up to 4.9 @ 1.5V then try for 5Ghz. You can bump Vcore up to 1.55V but I wouldn't push past that.

His mobo (asus sabertooth) is a much much better board so it will take much more tweaking to get the results but the method is solid.

+1 There is nothing wrong with Gigabyte boards, and I have used them to build many systems, but for performance, stability and ease its hard if not impossible to best Asus. In about a year I'm looking forward to building a new Zen system with Asus Sabertooth DDR4😀 With a little more tweaking the OP should be able to get the desired overclock with multiplier overclocking.

 

[State_2012]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

I tried some lower but went to 1.6 as a this should work kind of number and yet it still didn't work. I feel like its not the chip but its more of me being fairly new to ocing and having something somewhere wrong.

1.6V is really high and in my opinion too much. I would never push it past 1.55V. I have been thinking about pushing my Vcore to 1.55 to see if I can hit higher than 5.3Ghz, but right now my best overclock is 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V on FX 8370. I know AMD set the FX 9370 to run higher base wattage, but 1.6V you really risk frying it. I would set the Vcore at 1.5V and overclock using nothing but the multiplier, use manual voltage and ensure all power saving features are turned off (ie turbo core, cool n quiet, ect..). Once you have a stable overclock you can re enable cool n quiet, but nothing else (will allow the processor to idle @ 1.4Ghz and throttle up to max overclock when necessary). I know that high end Asus motherboards can handle overclocking the FX 9xxx series, but I don't know if the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is truly capable of handling it.

What exactly were your settings to reach 5.3ghz I'm kind of curious to see if there are any big differences between what you're running and what I'm trying to run.

First step with overclocking is of course to turn off ALL power saving options in bios (ie cool n quiet, turbo core, ect). When Overclocking the FX chips I always use multiplier overclocking only. I set my Vcore manually at 1.5V (I started with my very stable overclock of 5Ghz @ 1.44V and reached 5.3Ghz at 1.5V - I also had a very nice stable overclock of 5.5Ghz @ 1.55V but was not comfortable with the Vcore that high) and adjusted the multiplier for 5.3Ghz. Trying to remember if I adjusted anything else but i don't think so (I'm at my in-laws on a laptop away from my desktop right now). I believe in simple overclocking by multiplier so other than manually setting the Vcore to 1.5V I think everything else was set to Auto on my Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0. After verifying my overclock and testing with Prime 95 for stability I re-enabled Cool N Quiet so at idle the processor goes down to 1.4 Ghz and i think the Vcore also goes down to 1.2V when idling and shoots upto 1.5V and 5.3Ghz when needed). Every processor overclocks differently and my FX 8370 is 125W while your FX 9370 is 220W so yours will overclock differently. I would start with a manual Vcore of 1.5V and set your multiplier for 4.8Ghz and leave everything else on Auto setting (of course with all power saving options disabled). Once you verify stability and pass Prime 95 testing (a 15-20 min run is enough for finding max overclock) then bump up to 4.9 @ 1.5V then try for 5Ghz. You can bump Vcore up to 1.55V but I wouldn't push past that.

His mobo (asus sabertooth) is a much much better board so it will take much more tweaking to get the results but the method is solid.

+1 There is nothing wrong with Gigabyte boards, and I have used them to build many systems, but for performance, stability and ease its hard if not impossible to best Asus. In about a year I'm looking forward to building a new Zen system with Asus Sabertooth DDR4😀 With a little more tweaking the OP should be able to get the desired overclock with multiplier overclocking.

I'm completely with you being ready for Zen and I too will probably switch over to an Asus board. That being said I have had no real problems with my Gigabyte board, other than the newest bios made me have to set my drives to IDE otherwise it will blue screen and give inaccessible boot device. This system has served me well for 2 years now, with an upgrade here or there every now and then, and will keep me going until good ol Zen gets here.

 

[Redneck5439]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

I tried some lower but went to 1.6 as a this should work kind of number and yet it still didn't work. I feel like its not the chip but its more of me being fairly new to ocing and having something somewhere wrong.

1.6V is really high and in my opinion too much. I would never push it past 1.55V. I have been thinking about pushing my Vcore to 1.55 to see if I can hit higher than 5.3Ghz, but right now my best overclock is 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V on FX 8370. I know AMD set the FX 9370 to run higher base wattage, but 1.6V you really risk frying it. I would set the Vcore at 1.5V and overclock using nothing but the multiplier, use manual voltage and ensure all power saving features are turned off (ie turbo core, cool n quiet, ect..). Once you have a stable overclock you can re enable cool n quiet, but nothing else (will allow the processor to idle @ 1.4Ghz and throttle up to max overclock when necessary). I know that high end Asus motherboards can handle overclocking the FX 9xxx series, but I don't know if the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is truly capable of handling it.

What exactly were your settings to reach 5.3ghz I'm kind of curious to see if there are any big differences between what you're running and what I'm trying to run.

First step with overclocking is of course to turn off ALL power saving options in bios (ie cool n quiet, turbo core, ect). When Overclocking the FX chips I always use multiplier overclocking only. I set my Vcore manually at 1.5V (I started with my very stable overclock of 5Ghz @ 1.44V and reached 5.3Ghz at 1.5V - I also had a very nice stable overclock of 5.5Ghz @ 1.55V but was not comfortable with the Vcore that high) and adjusted the multiplier for 5.3Ghz. Trying to remember if I adjusted anything else but i don't think so (I'm at my in-laws on a laptop away from my desktop right now). I believe in simple overclocking by multiplier so other than manually setting the Vcore to 1.5V I think everything else was set to Auto on my Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0. After verifying my overclock and testing with Prime 95 for stability I re-enabled Cool N Quiet so at idle the processor goes down to 1.4 Ghz and i think the Vcore also goes down to 1.2V when idling and shoots upto 1.5V and 5.3Ghz when needed). Every processor overclocks differently and my FX 8370 is 125W while your FX 9370 is 220W so yours will overclock differently. I would start with a manual Vcore of 1.5V and set your multiplier for 4.8Ghz and leave everything else on Auto setting (of course with all power saving options disabled). Once you verify stability and pass Prime 95 testing (a 15-20 min run is enough for finding max overclock) then bump up to 4.9 @ 1.5V then try for 5Ghz. You can bump Vcore up to 1.55V but I wouldn't push past that.

His mobo (asus sabertooth) is a much much better board so it will take much more tweaking to get the results but the method is solid.

+1 There is nothing wrong with Gigabyte boards, and I have used them to build many systems, but for performance, stability and ease its hard if not impossible to best Asus. In about a year I'm looking forward to building a new Zen system with Asus Sabertooth DDR4😀 With a little more tweaking the OP should be able to get the desired overclock with multiplier overclocking.

I'm completely with you being ready for Zen and I too will probably switch over to an Asus board. That being said I have had no real problems with my Gigabyte board, other than the newest bios made me have to set my drives to IDE otherwise it will blue screen and give inaccessible boot device. This system has served me well for 2 years now, with an upgrade here or there every now and then, and will keep me going until good ol Zen gets here.

++1 totally agree with you. The way my system if running right now (and with the promise of DX 12 making FX processors better gamers) I'm actually hoping to ride it out with my current rig until Zen is in second generation before upgrading, but then again it will be hard to resist Zen next year😀 Zen in first generation is slated to have 40% IPC over Excavator, which will bring AMD to around Haswell IPC performance. Second generation Zen has a real chance of catching up with Intel considering how slight the performance improvements of Intel processors over generations has been recently.

 

[coolcole01]

IM just gonna throw it out there i hate that motherboard. Did you build up to 1.6 or are you using it as an arbitrary number. I had an 8350 running at 5.0 for a while and it only needed like 1.5

I tried some lower but went to 1.6 as a this should work kind of number and yet it still didn't work. I feel like its not the chip but its more of me being fairly new to ocing and having something somewhere wrong.

1.6V is really high and in my opinion too much. I would never push it past 1.55V. I have been thinking about pushing my Vcore to 1.55 to see if I can hit higher than 5.3Ghz, but right now my best overclock is 5.3Ghz @ 1.5V on FX 8370. I know AMD set the FX 9370 to run higher base wattage, but 1.6V you really risk frying it. I would set the Vcore at 1.5V and overclock using nothing but the multiplier, use manual voltage and ensure all power saving features are turned off (ie turbo core, cool n quiet, ect..). Once you have a stable overclock you can re enable cool n quiet, but nothing else (will allow the processor to idle @ 1.4Ghz and throttle up to max overclock when necessary). I know that high end Asus motherboards can handle overclocking the FX 9xxx series, but I don't know if the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is truly capable of handling it.

What exactly were your settings to reach 5.3ghz I'm kind of curious to see if there are any big differences between what you're running and what I'm trying to run.

First step with overclocking is of course to turn off ALL power saving options in bios (ie cool n quiet, turbo core, ect). When Overclocking the FX chips I always use multiplier overclocking only. I set my Vcore manually at 1.5V (I started with my very stable overclock of 5Ghz @ 1.44V and reached 5.3Ghz at 1.5V - I also had a very nice stable overclock of 5.5Ghz @ 1.55V but was not comfortable with the Vcore that high) and adjusted the multiplier for 5.3Ghz. Trying to remember if I adjusted anything else but i don't think so (I'm at my in-laws on a laptop away from my desktop right now). I believe in simple overclocking by multiplier so other than manually setting the Vcore to 1.5V I think everything else was set to Auto on my Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0. After verifying my overclock and testing with Prime 95 for stability I re-enabled Cool N Quiet so at idle the processor goes down to 1.4 Ghz and i think the Vcore also goes down to 1.2V when idling and shoots upto 1.5V and 5.3Ghz when needed). Every processor overclocks differently and my FX 8370 is 125W while your FX 9370 is 220W so yours will overclock differently. I would start with a manual Vcore of 1.5V and set your multiplier for 4.8Ghz and leave everything else on Auto setting (of course with all power saving options disabled). Once you verify stability and pass Prime 95 testing (a 15-20 min run is enough for finding max overclock) then bump up to 4.9 @ 1.5V then try for 5Ghz. You can bump Vcore up to 1.55V but I wouldn't push past that.

His mobo (asus sabertooth) is a much much better board so it will take much more tweaking to get the results but the method is solid.

+1 There is nothing wrong with Gigabyte boards, and I have used them to build many systems, but for performance, stability and ease its hard if not impossible to best Asus. In about a year I'm looking forward to building a new Zen system with Asus Sabertooth DDR4😀 With a little more tweaking the OP should be able to get the desired overclock with multiplier overclocking.

I'm completely with you being ready for Zen and I too will probably switch over to an Asus board. That being said I have had no real problems with my Gigabyte board, other than the newest bios made me have to set my drives to IDE otherwise it will blue screen and give inaccessible boot device. This system has served me well for 2 years now, with an upgrade here or there every now and then, and will keep me going until good ol Zen gets here.

++1 totally agree with you. The way my system if running right now (and with the promise of DX 12 making FX processors better gamers) I'm actually hoping to ride it out with my current rig until Zen is in second generation before upgrading, but then again it will be hard to resist Zen next year😀 Zen in first generation is slated to have 40% IPC over Excavator, which will bring AMD to around Haswell IPC performance. Second generation Zen has a real chance of catching up with Intel considering how slight the performance improvements of Intel processors over generations has been recently.

We had a lot of trouble with the ud-3 blowing out vrms they would sky rocket and it just struggled to get stable. And intel is only incrementally stepping it up because they dont have to. I will not buy a gaming cpu from amd until it is at least as good and costs 30% less. otherwise there is no point. But on a budget they can be pretty good. I learned my lesson.

 

[State_2012]

So here's a fun one. No matter what I set the CPU vcore to manually it stays at 1.5v or lower. When I boot up and go to stress test with P95 while I have HWMonitor running so I can see temps it never crosses past about 1.464 which is below stock voltage. So now I'm at a bit of a loss for what is causing this problem with voltage.

 

[State_2012]

My advanced CPU settings: http://i.imgur.com/I7BX487.jpg
My stock voltage settings: http://i.imgur.com/PuRw2BO.jpg
My vcore read out when set to 1.53v: http://i.imgur.com/oWGw0S9.jpg
Actual voltage settings during above readout: http://i.imgur.com/B1Rs1IZ.jpg