- Oct 13, 2014
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Hello guys, thanks in advance for the help! I received a problematic set of FM2+ hardware that I would like to get in check. I got the Gigabyte GA-F2A85XN-Wifi, an AMD A10-6700 and a Thermaltake Water 2.0 cooler. A customer brought in his computer because it would continuously shut down, at first it was only once or twice a week, then it slowly grew to several times a day. He was at wits end and wanted his machine as reliable as quickly possible, We suggested an Asus 1150 Board with similar Specs and an i5. He agreed, we swapped them out, and we sent him on his way with a zippy little computer without overheating problems. (this just makes me a bigger fan of Intel for professional purposes)
He wanted nothing to do with the old hardware and now this pile of hardware is my problem. I'd like to get it all sorted out. I don't know much about the Gigabyte GA-F2A85XN-Wifi other than it was replaced by the A88, and I don't know much about the A10-6700 other than it's stock clock speed is supposed to be at 3.7 from the factory.
Here is what I know. When I go into my bios I can see that something isn't right. With the Thermaltake liquid cooler the temps will not stay down, they climb up to 95*C in about three minutes until the machine shuts itself off. I take this same cooler and throw it on an Athalon II x4 620 and it does just fine. I put the stock cooler (the one with the copper pipes and platform not just solid aluminum) and the temps now sit around 55*C.
That stumps me but I have another problem going on here too. In the bios the settings don't seem quite right. It says my BLCK is 99.85MHz, my CPU Frequency is 3994.47MHz, my vcore is 1.356V and my DRAM voltage is 1.524. I go into advanced settings and try to change some of those settings around but most of them are set to Auto and won't let me change them. I wanted to change my CPU clock ratio but it is set to auto and wil lnot allow me to change it. I am just about stuck. If someone could just point me in the right direction of some literature or a bios flash or something to get this situation handled I would be very happy
He wanted nothing to do with the old hardware and now this pile of hardware is my problem. I'd like to get it all sorted out. I don't know much about the Gigabyte GA-F2A85XN-Wifi other than it was replaced by the A88, and I don't know much about the A10-6700 other than it's stock clock speed is supposed to be at 3.7 from the factory.
Here is what I know. When I go into my bios I can see that something isn't right. With the Thermaltake liquid cooler the temps will not stay down, they climb up to 95*C in about three minutes until the machine shuts itself off. I take this same cooler and throw it on an Athalon II x4 620 and it does just fine. I put the stock cooler (the one with the copper pipes and platform not just solid aluminum) and the temps now sit around 55*C.
That stumps me but I have another problem going on here too. In the bios the settings don't seem quite right. It says my BLCK is 99.85MHz, my CPU Frequency is 3994.47MHz, my vcore is 1.356V and my DRAM voltage is 1.524. I go into advanced settings and try to change some of those settings around but most of them are set to Auto and won't let me change them. I wanted to change my CPU clock ratio but it is set to auto and wil lnot allow me to change it. I am just about stuck. If someone could just point me in the right direction of some literature or a bios flash or something to get this situation handled I would be very happy
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