AMD FX-9590 - AM3+?

[Aderes Devorah]

Hi all

A bit of an elementary question for many of you:

If the new AMD CPUs that are coming out have the Piledriver architecture, does this mean that they will be AM3+?

Nobody out there seems to be naming sockets yet.

Hell of a power consumption, too (220W)! It'll eat more power than my GPU.

Cheers in advance.

 

[Martini1991]

They'll be AM3+.

 

[mmj_uk]

You're probably going to want a top end AM3+ motherboard at that, I wouldn't be surprised to see some dedicated motherboards released.

 

[Aderes Devorah]

Cheers!

 

[Aderes Devorah]

You're probably going to want a top end AM3+ motherboard at that, I wouldn't be surprised to see some dedicated motherboards released.

Oh, well that's more cash. Would my Asus Crosshair V Formula Z do the job?

If it is new mobo as well it might be the time to go with Haswell.

 

[JGStonedRaider]

Your mobo will be fine for it. It IS the best

 

[mmj_uk]

Oh, well that's more cash. Would my Asus Crosshair V Formula Z do the job?

Yep should do that's probably the best mobo available atm.

 

[Aderes Devorah]

Your mobo will be fine for it. It IS the best

Thanks for the response.

The only thing I wish the mobo had is PCIe3.0, but apart from that it has everything that I need it for.

 

[Aderes Devorah]

Yep should do that's probably the best mobo available atm.

Cheers.

 

[Tonester0011]

Thanks for the response.

The only thing I wish the mobo had is PCIe3.0, but apart from that it has everything that I need it for.

Your CPU will bottleneck the cards long before the lane bandwidth will

 

[Aderes Devorah]

Your CPU will bottleneck the cards long before the lane bandwidth will

Ah, I see. It is good (and less expensive) to buy PC parts in the right order.

Many thanks for your sound advice.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Have you tried to get your current CPU up to the to be released piledriver speeds?

I didn't have much trouble when clocking with my formula Z and managed to get my two 8350's to 5GHz without too much fiddling and tweaking.

 

[Aderes Devorah]

Have you tried to get your current CPU up to the to be released piledriver speeds?

I didn't have much trouble when clocking with my formula Z and managed to get my two 8350's to 5GHz without too much fiddling and tweaking.

It runs at 4.525 GHz (weird). Last I tried, I couldn't get any more out of my RAM than 1760 MHz, and no more out of my Bus Freq. than 220. That is on CPU LEVEL UP 2.

Maybe there is a way that I could up the CPU RATIO, because that is still on AUTO.

Sometimes it wouldn't boot, and I just stopped trying to go higher because I figured a 13% CPU overclock was okay.

Cheers

 

[dave28]

I dont think anyone should upgrade from 8350 to 9???. Wait untill decent high end steamroller chips.

 

[kaku]

I thought the 9xxx chips were just binned/clocked 8350s anyway?

 

[Avenged7Fold]

I dont think anyone should upgrade from 8350 to 9???. Wait untill decent high end steamroller chips.

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I thought the 9xxx chips were just binned/clocked 8350s anyway?

I think you will likely be able to clock your CPU to 5 GHz if you have the cooling for it already (if you dont, you wont have the cooling for that fx 9000). Try upping the multiplier and knock your ram down a notch. What voltage are you at? there are quite a lot of guides on the ROG site to overclock with your motherboard and that CPU to hit 5GHz.