It's gonna be a long-ish story so be warned.
Specs:
MSI 970 gaming mobo
R9 270x
FX 8350
16gb ddr3 ram
600w CM PSU
A few months ago i decided to upgrade from the stock cooler on my FX 8350, because it was running really hot (80C° !) and it was noisey as well. I noticed a problem the very first time i started playing with the new cooler, and by that i mean constant drops to 20fps from 40 or 60.
I posted the issue to forums, and after a few days of (mostly) misleading information i decided to test my cpu under load while watching the clock speed at the task manager, and i saw constant dips from 4.0 ghz to 1.4, then back to 4.0 and down to 1.4 again. I posted that as well and the problem boiled down to 2 possible sources A cpu throttling due to bad installation and 'too much paste!' B VRMs overheating. The latter turned out to be source so i went ahead and installed a couple of case fans.
A few months later and now we are here, the problem wasn't completely solved, the issue still happened under stress test in prime95, but only after 10-15 minutes of 100% load, and never in games so i considered it solved. But today i thought og overclocking my CPU for the not the first time, and with a lot of patience i managed to get a stable 4.5ghz OC, i could have gone higher, but i had other things to take care of. I was happy to go and test my newly improved CPU in games, and a short while after i loaded up the good old dropping to 14-20fps cycle happened again. And this point i was rather frsutrated that my goddamned cpu won't OC properly, but i wasn't a 100% sure that it was the processor so i googled 'msi 970 gaming vrm overheating'
and found a lot of results of cases very similar or identical to that of mine, so i drew the conclusion that this cpu will never OC with this POS mobo.
Specs:
MSI 970 gaming mobo
R9 270x
FX 8350
16gb ddr3 ram
600w CM PSU
A few months ago i decided to upgrade from the stock cooler on my FX 8350, because it was running really hot (80C° !) and it was noisey as well. I noticed a problem the very first time i started playing with the new cooler, and by that i mean constant drops to 20fps from 40 or 60.
I posted the issue to forums, and after a few days of (mostly) misleading information i decided to test my cpu under load while watching the clock speed at the task manager, and i saw constant dips from 4.0 ghz to 1.4, then back to 4.0 and down to 1.4 again. I posted that as well and the problem boiled down to 2 possible sources A cpu throttling due to bad installation and 'too much paste!' B VRMs overheating. The latter turned out to be source so i went ahead and installed a couple of case fans.
A few months later and now we are here, the problem wasn't completely solved, the issue still happened under stress test in prime95, but only after 10-15 minutes of 100% load, and never in games so i considered it solved. But today i thought og overclocking my CPU for the not the first time, and with a lot of patience i managed to get a stable 4.5ghz OC, i could have gone higher, but i had other things to take care of. I was happy to go and test my newly improved CPU in games, and a short while after i loaded up the good old dropping to 14-20fps cycle happened again. And this point i was rather frsutrated that my goddamned cpu won't OC properly, but i wasn't a 100% sure that it was the processor so i googled 'msi 970 gaming vrm overheating'
and found a lot of results of cases very similar or identical to that of mine, so i drew the conclusion that this cpu will never OC with this POS mobo.
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