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I Recently upgraded from a MSI R9 270X & a AMD FX6300 To a MSI R9 380 & a AMD FX8350
and I have noticed that since the upgrade my gaming performance is the same if not worse. I completely uninstalled all old GPU drivers and did a clean install. Temp of the New CPU is running perfectly. So im really unsure what could be wrong. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

My system includes:
16 GB DDR3 (1600MHZ) Rip Jaws
Corsair CX600
gigabyte ga-78lmt-usb3
2 120GB SSD
1 600GB HDD
 
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You're probably running into CPU throttling due to the motherboard's VRMs overheating. Your motherboard really isn't suitable for an 8 core FX CPU, the power draw is simply too high for the VRMs on the board to handle. Use something like CPU-Z to monitor your clockspeeds while gaming, if you constantly see the clockspeed bounce between 4GHz and 1.4GHz while your temps are fine, then the VRMs are overheating and the CPU is throttling as a result.

As for fixing this, you have three options: 1. try undervolting your FX 8350 and see if you can keep it stable at a lower voltage, that might take some stress of the VRMs by lowering the power draw, underclocking would also help but you would lose performance. 2. mount a case fan to blow air...
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You're probably running into CPU throttling due to the motherboard's VRMs overheating. Your motherboard really isn't suitable for an 8 core FX CPU, the power draw is simply too high for the VRMs on the board to handle. Use something like CPU-Z to monitor your clockspeeds while gaming, if you constantly see the clockspeed bounce between 4GHz and 1.4GHz while your temps are fine, then the VRMs are overheating and the CPU is throttling as a result.

As for fixing this, you have three options: 1. try undervolting your FX 8350 and see if you can keep it stable at a lower voltage, that might take some stress of the VRMs by lowering the power draw, underclocking would also help but you would lose performance. 2. mount a case fan to blow air across the VRMs to try to get them to cool better, this may or may not be enough to fix the problem. 3. buy a new motherboard with better VRMs that can actually handle the 8350's power draw without overheating.
 
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Thank you for your response. Someone else also recommended me to get a new motherboard but I have seen builds with that motherboard and the fx 8350. But i believe that is what the problem is. What AM3+ socket motherboard would you recommend that can handle the FX8350 and 1600MHZ PC3 12800 Memory ???
 
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Thank you for your response. Someone else also recommended me to get a new motherboard but I have seen builds with that motherboard and the fx 8350. But i believe that is what the problem is. What AM3+ socket motherboard would you recommend that can handle the FX8350 and 1600MHZ PC3 12800 Memory ???




 
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How much are you willing to spend? It's best that you get a board with an 8+2 phase VRM for the FX 8350 to run optimally as well as give you some headroom if you do want to overclock your CPU. The cheapest board that I'm aware of that fits that bill would be something like the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P, which I think usually goes for around $100 US.
 
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Okay thanks. I was looking at the msi fx 990 gaming edition.




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How much are you willing to spend? It's best that you get a board with an 8+2 phase VRM for the FX 8350 to run optimally as well as give you some headroom if you do want to overclock your CPU. The cheapest board that I'm aware of that fits that bill would be something like the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P, which I think usually goes for around $100 US. [/quotemsg]

 
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