I believe my FX 9590 is having stability issues.

[Being Careless]

Specs: MOBO Asus m5a99 FX pro R2.0 -120 GB SSD. - Radeon r9 290X 4 GB GPU - AMD FX 9590 4.7 GHZ 8 core (With massive Duel heat sink Dual Deepcool fan attached, arctic silver thermal paste used) - 2 8 Gig sticks of Corsair Vengeance ram. -Cooler Master 1000 Watt PSU Many, Many 120mm 5200 Rpm 240 CFM fans on case. Corsair Vengeance Ram cooler on ram.

So I built this in the winter and once I set my Dram voltage to what all the guides said I should with running ram at 1866, Ive had no problems. Until summer hit. Now I have constant hard lockups. Mouse freezes and everything while gaming. MOBO temp under load is 32C. CPU Temp under load never goes above 52C, usually only hits 46C. GPU never goes past 50C, usually hovers around 45.

I initially thought the ram was getting too hot so I bought a ram cooler. Did not fix. Fans are crazy loud but its worth it cause all components stay cool even while under load. I've ran memtest on ram, all cycles, many times, no problems. I thought it was a ram problem though for how its freezing up. Had this issue in past computers before and changing Dram voltage usually fixed it.

Dram voltage set to 1.55 with timings of 9 10 9 27. Running at 1866 as the ram is intended too. Setting bios to "Optimized defaults" only makes the problem worse. It crashed when I first built it at those defaults. I changed ram to how guides said its supposed to be and had been working flawlessly all winter. Now summer hit, crashes all the time while gaming. It has to be a heat issue..but everything running cool...im at such a loss. Maybe a bad CPU? Bad mobo? But why doesn't it freeze with cooler ambient room temp then if there is a hardware defect? I just don't know. I've read some thing about this particular CPU needing more voltage to run stable? I've tried upping NB voltage and CPU voltage only for it to tell me "Over Clocking failed! Press f1 to continue" I'm not an overclocker, I just thought it was a fast CPU for the price so i grabbed it and bought all the cooling supplies I thought necessary.

Any help is appreciated. I'm about to buy a new CPU if i cant figure this out.

 

[Supernova1138]

It's probably the VRMs that are overheating, the FX 9590 draws a massive amount of power and that can cause the motherboard VRMs to run hot, there is no temperature sensor for them so you won't see a problem on a monitoring program. You can try mounting a case fan to blow air over the VRMs, they are to the left as well as above of the CPU socket and see if that improves stability. Otherwise, you might have to try stuff like disabling TurboCore and maybe underclock a bit to get the voltage your CPU requires down so the VRMs don't need to work quite as hard.

 

[Being Careless]

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

 

[SoNic67]

I agree that the temparture of the CPU regulators might be the issue. At 220W, there is a lot of heat generated. The fact that the R9 290X probably heats up the case is not helping either.

On the other hand... it might just be that the 9000 is failing internally. Those CPU's are basically selected from the 8000 series and factory overclocked. As in any overclock, it will thermally stress the silicon (even if outside is still a normal temperature, the thermal gradient is higher than on non-OC CPU's) and transistors might start failing.

 

[Being Careless]

My sig? I looked up my Mobo before purchasing processor and everything I read said they were compatible. My Mobo is the Asus m5a99 FX pro R2.0.

https://community.amd.com/thread/180356

Current bios 2501. 4/7/2014

 

[SoNic67]

Sorry, I copy/pasted the wrong info. I edited the post while you where typing.

 

[Being Careless]

Thanks for both of your helps. Its near 90 out today my room is hot as shit and after underclocking to 4.0 ghz i've ran tests and been playing games all day and no freeze. thank you again.