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CPU Frequency Drop in games
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Yeah seems the Evo is slightly different to the one I had.
It won't work dude. Imagine running a CPU with no heatsink. You can't just blow a fan over naked VRMs and expect it to make any difference.
I'm surprised at Asus, tbh. They make, by far and away the absolute best of the best AM3+ boards. I spoke to Bindi about it once (Richard) and he told me that Asus actually cared about their AM3 boards.
Most manus just rebranded Phenom 2 boards and gave them pseudo 8 core support..
If his board has some VRM cooling then I'm confident it won't throttle at stock. I'm also confident he could aim for a 4-4.2ghz overclock too, and could hold it there.
Gigabyte do a el cheapo AM3 MATX board with a mode that enables it to overclock. The key though is that they have put on VRM cooling. It makes all the difference.
I mean crap dude, even with my MSI Big Bang Xpower 2 (12 phases) if I install the DrMos software it continually throttles my CPU and warns me the VRMs are overheating.
Back in the day? hehe there was no throttle. You should have seen what I did to my old Asrock ALive Xfire board with a Phenom 9950 in it ! the caps all bulged and started leaking glue and I took the skin off my thumb by touching them.
These days manus have put in a hard throttle, one you can't disable manually. That's why they say the boards support these insane chips, because they know you can't damage the board lol. Crafty gets tbh !
Yeah I just sold my fx8320 to a friend, he bought the m5a97 Evo r2.0.
seems a great board hoping in the future he'll push it, I'm confident its a 4.9/5 ghz cpu, it only needs 1.35v for 4.4ghz. Only thing I didn't like about Asus is that I've always been with gigabyte as when you use offset v-core you can undervolt below the vid, with the Asus I wasn't able to.
4+1s. Can be pushed if you know what you're doing lol,
I've embarrassed a few peeps with far more expensive boards.
In my sig is the link to the best matx in my opinion
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Yeah I managed 4.2ghz on my Asrock. Needed a H100 for it though, the H60 was useless.
Was a quick lesson learned, that Asrock. IE - not all 990FX boards can be trusted to be good for FX.
Alxandy I've bought some of this enzotech copper sinks for my 2nd pc I think I recommended them to the op further up too. Here's a question on this topic I'd like to ask. The fx4350 and fx8350 both have a tdp of 125w but surely the 8 core will pull a load more power than the quad does?
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Hey guys, i'm back from holiday. Is there a programme I can test that the motherboard is throttling my cpu? Because it use to run fine (would just like to have it run like before while I wait to get a new board)
yeah cpuz it shows real time cpu frequency, multi, voltage etc. run prime95 or whatever stability test you use with a temperature monitoring software and cpuz open. watch the temps and cpu frequency if it throttles by dropping the multiplier (mine goes from 20 to 7) then its the board. quick way to confirm with it throttled and prime95 still running connect a 120mm fan and point it at the motherboard vrm area. if it goes back up to normal frequency after a minute or two you know its the board overheating.
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Good news!!! I turned off amd turbo and it seems to have fixed it *fingers crossed* My motherboard gets alittle hot so i'll buy the heatsinks for it! I'll keep you updated while testing.