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8 years ago
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Yes, yes, okay. I know, it's an infamous AMD monster CPU (because it requires liquid cooling just to not vaporize itself)
I've had it for 3 years, and only recently, after Win 8.1 misinstalled the Spectre patch did I start to get problems. Previously (for 3 years), I just had it on Auto settings in the BIOS and everything was fine.
It took a while to get it back to fine, but after doing a lot of stuff in the BIOS, I got it back to its usual stability. Then, I realized that the turbo feature wasn't actually working, and never had.
Because the "AMD Turbo Core" feature in the BIOS is apparently incompatible with the chip it was designed for. Haaaa.
I guess one cannot simply "turn on" turbo boost (as one might in Intel territory) for something as ridiculous as a 220W Thermal Design Power CPU. If you do, in fact: it basically freezes 5 minutes into Windows.
Enter the paradoxical rabbit hole of the FX9590:
Where the Northbridge becomes faster as its clock speed decreases.
Where you must underclock the RAM, in order to make it perform better.
Where in order to gain something, something must be given up. Equivalent fucking exchange. Get your sheeps ready cause we be doin' some sacrificin' tonight!
(not really. I actually like sheeps, they're kinda hot, anyway)
(Lemon Curry?)
The magic numbers are:
NB @ 2200MHz NOT 2400 As the motherboard says is standard
DDR3 @ 1300MHz 1600 performs like dogshit because the timing or something fucked IDK
VCore @ 1.48 Every program will report this differently in Windows and the BIOS. Nobody fucking knows what the voltage is, but set it to manual and 1.48ish
CPU Bus @ 200-205 I only had issues above 205, it starts fucking with timing of stuff downstream
Leave everything else at standard settings.
The result is:
5IVE FEATHER-FUCKING' GIGAHERTZ BOIYYYEEEE!
https://valid.x86.fr/zb1t6a
I'm not sure how accurate those CPU-Z benchmark comparisons are since it puts this into insult-hurling range of the 6000-series i7s and that seems unlikely.
I've had it for 3 years, and only recently, after Win 8.1 misinstalled the Spectre patch did I start to get problems. Previously (for 3 years), I just had it on Auto settings in the BIOS and everything was fine.
It took a while to get it back to fine, but after doing a lot of stuff in the BIOS, I got it back to its usual stability. Then, I realized that the turbo feature wasn't actually working, and never had.
Because the "AMD Turbo Core" feature in the BIOS is apparently incompatible with the chip it was designed for. Haaaa.
I guess one cannot simply "turn on" turbo boost (as one might in Intel territory) for something as ridiculous as a 220W Thermal Design Power CPU. If you do, in fact: it basically freezes 5 minutes into Windows.
Enter the paradoxical rabbit hole of the FX9590:
Where the Northbridge becomes faster as its clock speed decreases.
Where you must underclock the RAM, in order to make it perform better.
Where in order to gain something, something must be given up. Equivalent fucking exchange. Get your sheeps ready cause we be doin' some sacrificin' tonight!
(not really. I actually like sheeps, they're kinda hot, anyway)
(Lemon Curry?)
The magic numbers are:
NB @ 2200MHz NOT 2400 As the motherboard says is standard
DDR3 @ 1300MHz 1600 performs like dogshit because the timing or something fucked IDK
VCore @ 1.48 Every program will report this differently in Windows and the BIOS. Nobody fucking knows what the voltage is, but set it to manual and 1.48ish
CPU Bus @ 200-205 I only had issues above 205, it starts fucking with timing of stuff downstream
Leave everything else at standard settings.
The result is:
5IVE FEATHER-FUCKING' GIGAHERTZ BOIYYYEEEE!
https://valid.x86.fr/zb1t6a
I'm not sure how accurate those CPU-Z benchmark comparisons are since it puts this into insult-hurling range of the 6000-series i7s and that seems unlikely.
My species does not recognize this jargon, as we talk like babs.