- Oct 5, 2013
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Good day to all first of all.
PC Specs:
AMD FX-8320
Sabertooth 990fx r2.0
Corsair Vengeance Blue 3x4GB PC3-12800
Cooler Master 212Plus
Rosewill 750W 80+ Bronze
MSI TwinFrozr GTX 680 SLI
NZXT M59
Issue:
I purchased an AMD FX-8320 Processor about 2-3 years ago. I installed it into my motherboard at the time MSI 970a-g46. I got into bios installed windows8 64bit and right after install it restarted. Failed to boot into windows. Totally not expecting it to be the processor tried different HDDs thinking it was because of the SSD i used initially. But sadly.. I encountered the same problem. I tried windows 7 64bit and i noticed the exact same thing happened at the exact same place. Success finally came when i booted into windows XP for the very first time. and everything worked perfectly. games running on max computer running like a champ. But it was still windows xp on a 32bit OS. so i wanted to make full use of my system's memory.
Thinking that everything was working now i tried windows 8 64 bit one more time. and exact same issue. immediately i had a hunch and i went ahead with it, which was installing windows8 32bit...... and you know what. it worked like a charm.
Thinking i had an issue with the motherboard, why would 64bit not work and 32bit work, couldn't be the processor, i should have never bought the cheapest 970FX board i could have found... so now i went ahead and purchased my brand new Sabertooth 990fx r2.0, and the same exact thing happened -.-
I Ruled out ram, Hdd, motherboard, GPU etc etc. by doing simple swaps. came to the conclusion that it was my processor. I was not ready to give up just yet. so i decided to dig into the CPU settings.. i disabled all but the first 2 cores (1-2) in the CPU, HOLY CRAP it worked. windows 8 64bit worked. now i enabled the next two cores (3-4) and it worked. Tried enabling the next two cores (5-6) and it failed there. Disabled it and tried the next two (7-8) and they worked. I now i enabled (1,2,3,4,7,8) and it works with no issues.
So apparently i received a faulty CPU chip. now some years have passed and i purchased an extra 680 to run my system in SLI mode because i am not able to play newer games on ULTRA, Very High settings at reasonable FPS.
Question:
Do you all believe the CPU is the problem and bottle necking my GPUs; and i need to replace it?
or
Do you believe that i need a newer GPU maybe with more Memory?
Note:
I live in Trinidad and return shipping is expensive. Thats why i did not return for a replacement.
Keep in mind that the CPU is not running at full capacity because of 2 disabled cores!
Thank you all for your time and your responses. <3
PC Specs:
AMD FX-8320
Sabertooth 990fx r2.0
Corsair Vengeance Blue 3x4GB PC3-12800
Cooler Master 212Plus
Rosewill 750W 80+ Bronze
MSI TwinFrozr GTX 680 SLI
NZXT M59
Issue:
I purchased an AMD FX-8320 Processor about 2-3 years ago. I installed it into my motherboard at the time MSI 970a-g46. I got into bios installed windows8 64bit and right after install it restarted. Failed to boot into windows. Totally not expecting it to be the processor tried different HDDs thinking it was because of the SSD i used initially. But sadly.. I encountered the same problem. I tried windows 7 64bit and i noticed the exact same thing happened at the exact same place. Success finally came when i booted into windows XP for the very first time. and everything worked perfectly. games running on max computer running like a champ. But it was still windows xp on a 32bit OS. so i wanted to make full use of my system's memory.
Thinking that everything was working now i tried windows 8 64 bit one more time. and exact same issue. immediately i had a hunch and i went ahead with it, which was installing windows8 32bit...... and you know what. it worked like a charm.
Thinking i had an issue with the motherboard, why would 64bit not work and 32bit work, couldn't be the processor, i should have never bought the cheapest 970FX board i could have found... so now i went ahead and purchased my brand new Sabertooth 990fx r2.0, and the same exact thing happened -.-
I Ruled out ram, Hdd, motherboard, GPU etc etc. by doing simple swaps. came to the conclusion that it was my processor. I was not ready to give up just yet. so i decided to dig into the CPU settings.. i disabled all but the first 2 cores (1-2) in the CPU, HOLY CRAP it worked. windows 8 64bit worked. now i enabled the next two cores (3-4) and it worked. Tried enabling the next two cores (5-6) and it failed there. Disabled it and tried the next two (7-8) and they worked. I now i enabled (1,2,3,4,7,8) and it works with no issues.
So apparently i received a faulty CPU chip. now some years have passed and i purchased an extra 680 to run my system in SLI mode because i am not able to play newer games on ULTRA, Very High settings at reasonable FPS.
Question:
Do you all believe the CPU is the problem and bottle necking my GPUs; and i need to replace it?
or
Do you believe that i need a newer GPU maybe with more Memory?
Note:
I live in Trinidad and return shipping is expensive. Thats why i did not return for a replacement.
Keep in mind that the CPU is not running at full capacity because of 2 disabled cores!
Thank you all for your time and your responses. <3
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