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AMD FX9590 + GA-990FXA-UD7 woes

Relentless81 said:
Ironic, you didn't read my post properly, buy the cheaper CPU, OC, profit.

Or not and go Intel.

Its an open forum and I can post any suggestion I please :)
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Hes quite clearly woke up on the wrong side of the bed, or is just an ******** eitherway he takes what you say out of context and makes a mockery of it.
What you said is sensible and clever, ignore him
 
Relentless81 said:
Ironic, you didn't read my post properly, buy the cheaper CPU, OC, profit.

Or not and go Intel.

Its an open forum and I can post any suggestion I please :)
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Ironic, had you read the opening post you would know he already has a 8320.

Nice attempt at sarcasm though.
 
I'd just send it back, stick with your current FX chip.
If you want an actual worthwhile upgrade, you're not getting it with anything AMD currently sell.
 
theaterix said:
Hes quite clearly woke up on the wrong side of the bed, or is just an ******** eitherway he takes what you say out of context and makes a mockery of it.
What you said is sensible and clever, ignore him
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If you, like some one else had read the OP you would have known he already had the board and already had an 8320.

Which made your 'send it all back and go Intel' post rather silly.

Maybe I am a **********, whatever that's supposed to be, but at least I read threads properly before wading in with useless advice.
 
Neuter said:
Hi Dave,

I reset it to defaults and sure enough, I had endless problems. I had to take photo's of the screen with my phone (as I obviously can't do a screen grab when it's all locked up!).

Anyway, here's a few screenshots of what was going on.

Before resetting to default (current stable)

http://imgur.com/a/WV2QE

After reset values and lockup photos:

http://imgur.com/a/nlNa9

The last crash photo was me lowering the clock multi to 22 (and it still crashed), had to go back and disable all the CPU features mentioned previously, and I'm back up and running again.

After the last crash, Windows tried to do a recovery again, then the PC completely shut off, had to perform a bios recovery.

I have noticed however since this bios recovery my VCORE is much lower.

http://imgur.com/fOZqtmt

Anyway, any help is appreciated. I'm no expert when it comes to things in the BIOS, I just know at the moment how to get it stable.
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thankyou for the couple of posts with all the relavant info,
It's clear that when you use the bios setting which is most stable the maximum v-core that gets applied is 1.41 in the bios yet under load it drops down to 1.368 v, this with your x44 is stable. All you need to do is tweak your llc and configure the offset voltage for the 4.7ghz p-state. What's happening is that the cpu is not getting the correct voltage when going for 4.7ghz. The cpu needs 1.45-1.5v held and under vdroop you are going below this. However one thing I can see is that you are near to the thermal limits of the chip with your cooling, the max package should be is 70c and cpu/socket is 62c
 
ALXAndy said:
If you, like some one else had read the OP you would have known he already had the board and already had an 8320.

Which made your 'send it all back and go Intel' post rather silly.

Maybe I am a **********, whatever that's supposed to be, but at least I read threads properly before wading in with useless advice.
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When did i ever say send it all back, I said send the CPU and RAM back?? Read before you speak, like your trying to tell me lol.

P.S. You put 1 too many asterisks in there mate, was meant to say the thing between your buttocks, but i guess, male-genitals + head works too.

P.S.S TO OP, Just to offer any sort of help to you, buy a really good cooler or switch to intel, as from your 8320 there is no real upgrade on AMD's platform from your current CPU that is worth the price as the 8320 is, in my opinion your best value for money on AMD.
Sorry for ruining your post with some silly-minded person. Hope I have helped in some shape or form.
 
Hi Dave,

I need a tiny bit of handholding here if I may.

I went into the BIOS and went looking for LLC and found one option to adjust it.

Vcore Loadline Calibration. My options are:

"Auto" - currently set to this
Normal
Extreme
Ultra High
High
Medium
Regular

So yeah, I have no clue as to what each one does, nor does clicking on them show how much it'll adjust it percentage wise.

Thanks for the help thus far from everyone.
 
I'd set the llc to medium for now, and keep the multi at 44 = 4.4ghz so to help get that voltage stable at 1.45v under load.

There's two ways to using voltage with amd cpu's, the (manual voltage) and the professional way (offset voltage also known as dynamic dvid). For now to make it quick and easy we'll use manual voltage.
With the llc set to medium go into mit advanced voltage settings and increase the cpu v-core to 1.475v by typing it into the box at the far right.

Then go into windows and take not of the voltage held in hwmonitor when stress testing as you were before, we want to see under the actual reading 1.475-1.5v. If it's too low increase the manual voltage by the amount that's needed.
 
Hi Dave.

I've canned it mate. I just can't get this CPU to be happy for love nor money. Got a BSOD after your suggestion. I'm just going to send it back, it kept locking up and as others have said, a poor choice for an upgrade.

http://i.imgur.com/mzoEqL4.jpg

Stuck my old faithful back in there (OC'd from 3.5 to 4.2 quite happily) and I'll wait off for a while before I upgrade.

I appreciate all the help you've all given in this thread.

This old CPU is perfectly happy running at 100% load and 42C. Maybe in the capable hands of someone like yourself, this CPU could have run just fine. Unfortunately I just didn't have the patience to get it to work.

Take care.
 
Neuter said:
Hi Dave.

I've canned it mate. I just can't get this CPU to be happy for love nor money. Got a BSOD after your suggestion. I'm just going to send it back, it kept locking up and as others have said, a poor choice for an upgrade.

http://i.imgur.com/mzoEqL4.jpg

Stuck my old faithful back in there (OC'd from 3.5 to 4.2 quite happily) and I'll wait off for a while before I upgrade.

I appreciate all the help you've all given in this thread.

This old CPU is perfectly happy running at 100% load and 42C. Maybe in the capable hands of someone like yourself, this CPU could have run just fine. Unfortunately I just didn't have the patience to get it to work.

Take care.
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Ok that's fine if you want to do that can understand it should work out the box to justify the investment, if you want advice on clocking your 8320 then give us amd guys a shout on here. From your screen print of the fx8320 it can be seen that it suffers vdroop at 1.296v but at 4.2ghz this voltage is a sweet spot, as are the core and cpu temps.

All the best
 
You can get much more out of that 8320, check at the AMD Overclocking thread, as long as you've got the cooling you should be able to put the VCore close to 1.5 - Just keep an eye on the VRM and core temps using HWinfo64
 
I've said it before but the FX9590 should have never made it to retail, it's more of a trophy product to make AMD look more respectable in benchmark reviews than a product fit for mainstream release.

I'd say your best bet for getting it stable at stock would be to buy the Asus Formula which has massively over designed VRM's etc or better still RMA it and go Intel which is what anyone considering FX9590 should do.
 
RMA it, i use to bench these fx chips and had a number of formula-z's and Sabertooths. Yeah the VRMs are overspeced on those two premium boards but it isnt worth burning any more cash to get this chip stable because if you cant do it with a UD7 which was another top tier board, then i doubt you can get it stable with any other board.

The issue seems to be that one of the cores of the fx is unstable. Return the CPU and sell the board + RAM, then buy up a 5820k if you want more grunt. I mean, if you were willing to put on custom cooling or try another board, then you will be spending that much and still only coming out with a 4.7-5Ghz fx.
 
I bought an FX9590 as it was a special offer here at £136, I have never seen that again.

I run at stock or a bit above sometimes, up to 4850 / 5150 on an unsupported board Crosshair V non Z although it is recognised as a 9590.

CPU voltage is 1.416 and LLC is set as high, air cooled and it is very quiet.

I think that the auto LLC was causing it to crash with vdroop, but note that you have returned it anyway.

cheers, andy.
 
The 8370 would probably be a better clocker as it's a newer revision. I think someone on here got 5.3 ghz ish (flanker??)

I wouldn't consider it a cost-effective upgrade over the 8320 though.
 
highest I got my 8320e is 5.26; it booted into windows; but soon as I tried to run anything it lock up :D

highest stable clock is 5.15ghz.....it got fairly hot on different things; but everyday use it was fine; figured if I had better cooling I'd get gaming without major issues......

but 5ghz wasn't hard to do on it.....
 
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