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Failed AMD FX 8350 installation

Leem92

Leem92

Leem92

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Asus M5a87 AM3+ motherboard.

So after i replaced my old AMD Phenom II x4 955 with the FX 8350 i plugged it all back in and turned it on. Nothing on screen, no keyboard, mouse, headphones lighting up. No signal on monitor at all.

So i googled it and trying to update BIOS was an obvious option so i swapped over back to my old CPU and it responded in the exact same way! Blank screen. Any ideas would be super grateful!

TL;DR New processor gives blank screen, re-installed old one, now that does the same.
 
ALXAndy said:
I strongly recommend against using the 8350 in that motherboard.
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It will throttle under load. Had that motherboard briefly with a 8150 and when i had poor air or custom water cooling it, the VRMs would get toasty enough to turn the clocks down under load. This wasnt during benchmarks but rather intensive every day gaming stuff.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
It will throttle under load. Had that motherboard briefly with a 8150 and when i had poor air or custom water cooling it, the VRMs would get toasty enough to turn the clocks down under load. This wasnt during benchmarks but rather intensive every day gaming stuff.
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Yup that board has absolutely no VRM cooling whatsoever so it will be throttle heaven.

OP. IMO you have two choices here really. Either invest in a proper motherboard with adequate VRMs and cooling or send the 8350 back and go Intel.

There is another option and that's the Gigabyte MATX board (4+1 though) but has VRM cooling. This will set you back around £45 or so.
 
That is the last thing I wanted to hear! I kind of ruined and bent the tightning clips trying to get it on so bad idea trying to return. I don't fancy fitting the motherboard alone so maybe i'll take it to my local shop and let them do whatever necessary! Thanks a lot for your opinion it's helped a lot!
 
Leem92 said:
That is the last thing I wanted to hear! I kind of ruined and bent the tightning clips trying to get it on so bad idea trying to return. I don't fancy fitting the motherboard alone so maybe i'll take it to my local shop and let them do whatever necessary! Thanks a lot for your opinion it's helped a lot!
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Are you putting the cpu the right way round as it should just fall in, there is a triangle on the cpu and motherboard socket, to show what way to put it in.
 
Haha I probably sound stupid but atleast give me some credit xD ... local guy fixed it for me for £10.. Thanks for all your help!
 
good to hear its up and running. Yea OCing won't be great on that board; though you can do some stuff to help by setting up cooling for vrms :)
 
look for speed drops and core voltage is if you see it backing off means you're being throttled; and most likely because vrms getting too hot; its fairly easy to ghetto mod to cool them though
 
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