Stable Bios for Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 9590CPU

[Marshman1958]

I have a Cooler Master Case with a 550 wat psu, Asus Sabertooth 990FX MB Amd 9590 CPU a cheap radeon R5 220 XFX 16GB KINGSTON HYPEREX RAM kINGSTON SSD 120GB AND A HITACHI 2tb 64/7200 HDD. My cooler is a corsair Hi80 Rieght now, I have it clocked just over 4700 and it is stable. I had to mess around with the settings just to get it to this point and, I thought that my proble was over heating but, it was the memory timing and voltage that was causing the crashes. It will run hot if I try to push it over 5ghz and will freeze up, if I can even get it to boot. I'm wondering if I need a better psu? Most builds I've seen have at least 750 watts and some are even up to 1250 watts, My temps seem normal and when I have crashed, most of the time it was pretty cooll. I am not so much interested in over clocking my system but I do want to maintain the ideal setting with solid stability. If anyone has a similar setup and has had success then please, by all means tell me what I can do to make my system the best it can be. Thank you

 

[Marshman1958]

So far, I have bumped the memory voltage up to 1.55v and have the timing set at 9/9/9/24/34 and it seems stable until I push it too much. I let the sales man talk me out of the crosshair MB for this one. I have read a lot of good things about it but the CPU gets mostly negative comments. I did see an overclocker party video and these guys got up to 8.2ghz so, I know what this CPU is capable of. I want it to last more than six months so, I plan to keep my speed under 5.0 but I'd like it to fa as fast as it can be, stable and less power consuming. I think I need a vbetter psu and possibly a better cooler.

 

[ShadyHamster]

I would just leave it at 4.7ghz if it's stable, an extra 300mhz isn't going to effect performance that much.
8.2ghz would of been with liquid nitrogen cooling so you can ignore that, you aren't going to get anything close to that with air/water cooling.

 

[MarkW]

Not every system can be the fastest. 4.7Ghz is fast. Be happy.