Hello,
Recently my friend has asked me to install a new and powerful processor. I chose the fx-9590 since he already had an am3+ mobo. I made a huuuugeee mistake here. I didn't think about the power consumption of this cpu. The 220 watt tdp is insane. His motherboard only supports 140 watt cpu's (Asrock 970 Extreme3).
Here are a few observations I made:
Performance (in games) is fine for a while, untill the cpu temperature hits 52°C.
After this threshold is hit, the cpu throttles it's frequency down from 4.7Ghz, to about 1.3Ghz. (which results in bad game performance)
Because of this change, the cpu temperature falls into the 20's °C.
It then clocks it's frequency back to 4.7Ghz and this whole cycle continues.
So there might be a cooling problem here? Or is it really necessary to buy a motherboard that can handle this tdp?
I have tried underclocking the cpu but since I don't have a lot of experience with it, I can't get it stable. The pc usually bsod's after a few minutes of usage.
Thanks in advance.
Recently my friend has asked me to install a new and powerful processor. I chose the fx-9590 since he already had an am3+ mobo. I made a huuuugeee mistake here. I didn't think about the power consumption of this cpu. The 220 watt tdp is insane. His motherboard only supports 140 watt cpu's (Asrock 970 Extreme3).
Here are a few observations I made:
Performance (in games) is fine for a while, untill the cpu temperature hits 52°C.
After this threshold is hit, the cpu throttles it's frequency down from 4.7Ghz, to about 1.3Ghz. (which results in bad game performance)
Because of this change, the cpu temperature falls into the 20's °C.
It then clocks it's frequency back to 4.7Ghz and this whole cycle continues.
So there might be a cooling problem here? Or is it really necessary to buy a motherboard that can handle this tdp?
I have tried underclocking the cpu but since I don't have a lot of experience with it, I can't get it stable. The pc usually bsod's after a few minutes of usage.
Thanks in advance.
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