Minor AMD upgrade to 1090T and OC

Hagar · 7 May 2012 at 01:04

Well I bought Gareth170's 1090T and an ASUS 990X motherboard from SeraphX so on Saturday proceeded to bolt it together. Both items are in excellent condition and the PC booted immediately to desktop. I reused my 8Gb of HyperX grey and did read the guide on the slots to use. I don't usually. I am using Arctic MX4 for the first time instead of silver 5.

Surprise number 1 was that I had not reinstalled windows and it seems that going from a Gigabyte 890 chipset to an Asus 990 chipset, the only drivers I needed to install were for the LAN and the sound.

Surprise number 2 was the UEFI bios determining a 3.8GHz boot OC on the first boot although at a higher voltage than necessary 1.44V.

Surprise number 3 was not needing to speak to Microsoft after replacing the Mobo and CPU.

Anyway to overclocking. I am currently on a 24/7 4GHz at 1.404V. I got 3.8GHz at 1.38V. I have not spent a lot of time on this so feel that there is more scope to reduce the volts a touch or to go to 4.2GHz. I have a TRUE 120mm heatsink with one apache although may go push pull vipers shortly. I want a quiet PC though.

The upgrade has cost a net £50 over my other parts after selling and I think I now have not only a fast PC but a quite intelligent one after the UEFI bios first boot.

Other parts are twin Frozr 6950, Seasonic X-650 and Vertex 2E SSD

Opinions are welcomed especially if Gareth sees this and wants to chip in (excuse the pun) and provide his experience with this CPU.

synixx · 7 May 2012 at 01:47

What did you upgrade from and have you seen any difference in framerates?

Dicehunter · 7 May 2012 at 04:23

Welcome to the AMD side ^^

Hagar · 7 May 2012 at 08:06

Should have said, I had a 1055T before so the only upgrade was to a black edition and a later chipset. I am now established until PD comes along on the 3+ socket.

Felt the urge to upgrade on the cheap as always and am pleased with this setup. The 1055T was a good 24/7 3.5GHz CPU, this looks like a good 24/7 4GHz CPU with a bit more in the tank.

Framerates, not really checked any, the PC does not falter at anything chucked at it and 6 cores running up to 4GHz should be enough for now.

andy.

iMrLemon · 25 May 2012 at 19:59

I was going to get a 1100T to start off with but i thought from a AMD 6000+ X2 might as well take the leap to Bulldozer. AMD FTW

Dicehunter · 26 May 2012 at 01:46

I went from the 1100T to the FX 8150, I was actually surprised how good it is after reading all the incredibly negative reviews :rolleyes:

trickynickyuk · 27 May 2012 at 14:46

if you want to hit the 4ghz mark try this i have the same board and cpu

Try using CPU ratio 18x and changing the CPU Bus Frequency to 223 and see if that helps with stability.

You could try lowering the CPU voltage to 1.425v and change the CPU/NB Voltage to 1.300v.

iMrLemon · 28 May 2012 at 18:08

DF1986 said:
I went from the 1100T to the FX 8150, I was actually surprised how good it is after reading all the incredibly negative reviews

I did read a lot of negative reviews about the 8120, I've always been an AMD person there's is a lot of vids on YouTube ****ging the 8120 off just because it doesn't perform aswell as some of the other on Benchmark CPUs. Who gives a s*** about benchmarks (Intel Fanboys).