I have an G1,Sniper A88X motherboard running an A10-7850K and 8gb of 2133mhz ram. I changed my APU from the A10-6800k to the 7850K as someone with an fm2 board was willing to pay me most of the cost for it and I hoped the Kaveri APU would represent a modest upgrade. Anyway since i've changed the APU I am unable to run the memory at its full speed, previously I could just load the XMP profile and it would run without issue at 2133, now it will fail Prime95 within a few seconds and display general instability in applications.
I tried ignoring the XMP profile and manually setting the memory however this had no impact on the problem, if I manually set the speed to 1866 then it runs perfectly. I contacted Gigabyte who said that they've tested this combination and it should work perfectly as long as I have installed the latest drivers from their website and have updated my BIOS (both of which I have). I feel like i'm at a bit of a loss as what to do next. Has anyone else experienced any problems similar to this and do you have any potential solutions?
The only thing I am slightly unsure of is the installation of the Gigabyte drivers. It is a larger download than just the catalyst driver on its own but when you run 'ASetup.exe' as far as I can tell it just seems to run a Catalyst installer. Do they bury their chipset drivers somewhere as the only other .exe in the package definitely seems to just install a display driver.
RAM: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-(2x4gb)-corsair-ddr3-vengeance-racing-red-pc3-17066-(2133)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-11-11-11-27-xm
MOBO: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-g1-sniper-a88x-amd-a88x-fm2-ddr3-sata-iii-6gb-s-raid-pcie-30-(x16)-d-sub-dvi-d-hdmi-atx
CPU: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-a10-7850k-black-edition-s-fm2plus-kaveri-core-quad-core-40ghz-amd-radeon-r7-95w-retail
I am not currently using the onboard graphics as I have an R9 270 and my PSU is a 550w Corsair (can't find a link for this as I don't think they sell it anymore).
Thanks.
I tried ignoring the XMP profile and manually setting the memory however this had no impact on the problem, if I manually set the speed to 1866 then it runs perfectly. I contacted Gigabyte who said that they've tested this combination and it should work perfectly as long as I have installed the latest drivers from their website and have updated my BIOS (both of which I have). I feel like i'm at a bit of a loss as what to do next. Has anyone else experienced any problems similar to this and do you have any potential solutions?
The only thing I am slightly unsure of is the installation of the Gigabyte drivers. It is a larger download than just the catalyst driver on its own but when you run 'ASetup.exe' as far as I can tell it just seems to run a Catalyst installer. Do they bury their chipset drivers somewhere as the only other .exe in the package definitely seems to just install a display driver.
RAM: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-(2x4gb)-corsair-ddr3-vengeance-racing-red-pc3-17066-(2133)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-11-11-11-27-xm
MOBO: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-g1-sniper-a88x-amd-a88x-fm2-ddr3-sata-iii-6gb-s-raid-pcie-30-(x16)-d-sub-dvi-d-hdmi-atx
CPU: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-a10-7850k-black-edition-s-fm2plus-kaveri-core-quad-core-40ghz-amd-radeon-r7-95w-retail
I am not currently using the onboard graphics as I have an R9 270 and my PSU is a 550w Corsair (can't find a link for this as I don't think they sell it anymore).
Thanks.
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