AMD FX OC'ers Club

[de.das.dude]

not just me dude. pretty much most people have had horrible experiences with asus RMA here.
but its just a local issue i guess.

also mate. thats a 9370. i OC'd to 5GHz on a 8320 lol. you can push a lot more?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I don't think I agree with asus motherboards being flakey dude , mine is a few years old and has had a hard life but is 100% working.
I do agree their support sucks though.

 

[Johan45]

I don't think I agree with asus motherboards being flakey dude , mine is a few years old and has had a hard life but is 100% working.
I do agree their support sucks though.

not just me dude. pretty much most people have had horrible experiences with asus RMA here.
but its just a local issue i guess.

also mate. thats a 9370. i OC'd to 5GHz on a 8320 lol. you can push a lot more?

I did the same with my 8350 till I killed it. Ha ha
One and only has some good points. They are solidboards through and through and most of the RMA issues I have seen have been with INTEL stuff with claims of bent pins which I have seen before pics and they weren't bent. Yes ASUS is dropping the ball or they have some poor tech staff possibly. Don't know through my 10 years all has been positive.
One thing I do know is that the lower end boards typically won't perform when you really want to push a CPU. Sometimes bios options are just missing or the VRM can't quite handle it but thee's a reason they are cheaper.

 

[de.das.dude]

here the issues are more severe they die withtin 6months and have a pretty much 50% mortality rate. a friend of mines sabertooth 990fx died 75days after purchase.
and my previous board used to take a trip to the rma center very 6 months. no reason. just stopped working. and whenever i went there i would see a large rack about 10ft long filled with sabertooth motherboards only.
something that is supposed to be "durable"


Well that was it for me . after 2 years i just got this new setup.

 

[suraswami]

here the issues are more severe they die withtin 6months and have a pretty much 50% mortality rate. a friend of mines sabertooth 990fx died 75days after purchase.
and my previous board used to take a trip to the rma center very 6 months. no reason. just stopped working. and whenever i went there i would see a large rack about 10ft long filled with sabertooth motherboards only.
something that is supposed to be "durable"


Well that was it for me . after 2 years i just got this new setup.

Can you put the machine in S3 state, leave it for sometime and wake it up, run some games, general browsing etc. May be do this for few times, if its still stable at 4.5 then its really really stable!! I have seen OCs run for ever if you just restart and leave that thing alone, but when you use sleep the mobo messes the voltage applied until the OS calms down!! that's when it crashes.

 

[eidairaman1]

yes just like in phenoms the phenom on CPU could take upto 1.4V

The Ph2 ran 1.5 no problem. Reminds me of the Axp days

 

[Johan45]

here the issues are more severe they die withtin 6months and have a pretty much 50% mortality rate. a friend of mines sabertooth 990fx died 75days after purchase.
and my previous board used to take a trip to the rma center very 6 months. no reason. just stopped working. and whenever i went there i would see a large rack about 10ft long filled with sabertooth motherboards only.
something that is supposed to be "durable"


Well that was it for me . after 2 years i just got this new setup.

Sounds like you had some bad luck. In 10 years I've had 1 RMA and it went quite smooth. I have 6 Asus boards at home one is 8 or 9 years old even after a major water leak once it keeps on ticking. Also have 5 Asus DCII GFX cards not one issue with those either. Like I said earlier to each their own.

 

[de.das.dude]

Can you put the machine in S3 state, leave it for sometime and wake it up, run some games, general browsing etc. May be do this for few times, if its still stable at 4.5 then its really really stable!! I have seen OCs run for ever if you just restart and leave that thing alone, but when you use sleep the mobo messes the voltage applied until the OS calms down!! that's when it crashes.

interesting but i tested the 4.5 with prime and cinebench its pretty stable. but the 5GHz wont stabilize even when i got it to run prime it gave a lower score. lol.

 

[Johan45]

interesting but i tested the 4.5 with prime and cinebench its pretty stable. but the 5GHz wont stabilize even when i got it to run prime it gave a lower score. lol.

So you had that 8320 running P95 @ 5.0 with a CM Hyper 212?

 

[de.das.dude]

i see you cannot comprehend english. i said i tested 4.5 with prime and yes i did. it was only at 1.4V.

and the CM hyper 212 EVO is on par with most cheap AIO water coolers.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

You tend to need much more than a 212 to get a fx to stay at 5ghz dude, most aios are not going to cut it too unless you flat out the fan speeds.
I've plenty of rad on mine and it uses it for 5ghz @ 1.568 core v stable less core volts = not stable. .... obv my fx is a pig but still.

 

[Random Murderer]

i see you cannot comprehend english. i said i tested 4.5 with prime and yes i did. it was only at 1.4V.

No need for the hostility, it's a simple misunderstanding:

interesting but i tested the 4.5 with prime and cinebench its pretty stable. but the 5GHz wont stabilize even when i got it to run prime it gave a lower score. lol.

I noticed it too, but figured you meant Cinebench since you mentioned score being lower.

 

[de.das.dude]

You tend to need much more than a 212 to get a fx to stay at 5ghz dude, most aios are not going to cut it too unless you flat out the fan speeds.
I've plenty of rad on mine and it uses it for 5ghz @ 1.568 core v stable less core volts = not stable. .... obv my fx is a pig but still.

i dont think my mobo itself will support the TDP at 1.5V so didnt try.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Well I've got a fair bit more than that out of it by accident once , I accidentally booted at 1.7.
Well to be fair it applied a crazy offset to 1.5 which should not have happened but a bios reflash stopped that happening , and I have a ek block on my crosshair v which helps.

 

[de.das.dude]

yea plus my ambient is around 35C. that doesnt help. things get hot real quick.

 

[de.das.dude]

so many people are calling BS on my 5ghz on hyper 212 -.-
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ModdersAnonymous/549112741878119/?notif_t=group_comment

 

[TRWOV]

I got a good deal on a Kingston HyperX Beast 2400Mhz 8GB kit so I will use those instead. Should get them by wednesday.

I have a Gigabyte 880GMA-USB3 collecting dust, I think I'll get a 6300/6350 and use the OCZ RAM there.

 

[d1nky]

so many people are calling BS on my 5ghz on hyper 212 -.-
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ModdersAnonymous/549112741878119/?notif_t=group_comment

Only if you had -10*c ambients and some huge rpm fans would it be able to cpuz validate 5ghz. No way it could prime with that!

 

[TRWOV]

Only if you had -10*c ambients and some huge rpm fans would it be able to cpuz validate 5ghz. No way it could prime with that!

Stacked fans?

 

[d1nky]

Stacked fans?

they'd have to be some fans. 5ghz vishera would be over 225watts!

 

[de.das.dude]

Stacked fans?

well i only needed 1.45V and had a pedestal fan blowing at it full throttle and it was raining so cool. it cant run prime .but it does validate lol.

seriously impressed by this motherboard. i had a friend who benched a 8350 on a 990 evo but couldnt get more than 4.8 to post.

 

[d1nky]

Didnt realise we was talking about your chip DDD!

Rock out AMD!

 

[Johan45]

so many people are calling BS on my 5ghz on hyper 212 -.-
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ModdersAnonymous/549112741878119/?notif_t=group_comment

That's because a validation link looks like this http://valid.canardpc.com/2hwhtk not a facebook reference. That's fine I saw your post on the previous page, not doubt you managed to get to 5.0.

Stacked fans?

That's a myth, stacked fans does nothing. The only way it has any benefit is if the second fan turns the opposite direction and then it's minimal.

 

[de.das.dude]

i thought i had the 5ghz validation in my signature. i guess i reached the max no of urls.
here it is


http://valid.canardpc.com/rthd7h

you seem to have something with believing what i say. But then you're new here.

and yes its stable enough to do that on air as i have done so.

just had a panaflow 100+ cfm fan directed with a pedestal fan.



and yes stacked fans dont work because they only increase the static pressure but not the actual flow rate.
but having fans in the same direction of airflow on either side of a heatsink or any obstructive path helps because that creates a uniform pressure head which helps with the airflow and even reduces turbulence.

the latter happens because because of the negative head the air going in, air will follow the shortest path of least resistance possible to the negative head. and since a streamline is the shortest least resistant way, no turbulence.

 

[Johan45]

@de.das.dude It's not believing what you say and I do understand english quite well. This all started with a claim that the Asrock extreme 4 is the best. I just don't feel that way and thought that was quite a statement to make. My opinion is, it's probably a great budget board that'll handle the power of an 8 core FX CPU.
I might be new here but this isn't my first trip around the block, I have spent a lot of time with AMD and FX CPUs. I do know that when the chips are down you need a good solid base to keep things from blowing up in our face. Here's a sample of what I was up to on the weekend. Done on an ASUS Crosshair III.