Fastest CPU anyone's ever used on Asrock 770 Extreme 3?

Gregg Eshelman

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I installed the 1.91 beta BIOS to get AM3+ support, popped in an FX 6100 and the performance is underwhelming to say the least. Certainly not 100% faster in multithreaded applications as claimed by CPU-World.

Made essentially zero difference from a quad unlocked (or even left at 2 cores) Phenom II 555 in PCSX2 (can't run at full speed = unplayable) and it only gained a small increase in frames per second with HEVC video encoding.

Some web searching shows that 8 core CPUs *may* work.

I need More Power!
 

Gregg Eshelman

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According to Crucial the board supports the faster RAM speed used by the Vishera CPUs, but I've also found some reports of issues running 4 of those faster DIMMs, or at least attempting to use 4x4 gig for 16 gig.