Did some more research. The GPU fan has 4 pins. 4 pin fans have the power management (pwm) signal. Perhaps something in the fan itself broke... Not too sure though but since the video card works fine otherwise...maybe i should just put my own fan.
I am starting to think it has a major problem myself. I dont remember this thing at full blast when the computer is turned on. I think the auto was supposed to work even before windows boots.
Perhaps a sensor burned out and there is a fail-safe to just go max RPM?
I was playing mechwarrior online and the videocard fan kicked into full blast. It sounds very annoying at 100%.
I do not overclock my system in any way.
I tried doing a full power down and the problem persists even during the bootup.
In the Catalyst Control Center the manual fan control is...
I am wondering how you know it supports the phenom II because gigabytes site doesnt mention anything about the phenom 2 on the 790FX DS5. which bios version has the phenom II support???
Take out the RAM, see if it turns off by itself still, see if you get the correct beep for no memory
If it still turns off by itself its not the RAM
http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm#05
you can pull off the socket fixture by unscrewing it, then file or grind down the places where its bottoming out so the heatsink will fit, also put the ram in the furthest slots if its touching or really close. You shouldnt have to do this but if your desperate this could work.
anyways, Barcelonas and Phenoms have the bug, so either AMD tried to hide the whole thing because they fabbed 500,000 chips and realized they were all possibly scrap, or they were truely oblivious of the bug until the last minute when they realized that couldnt make it stable past 2.4 GHz
I read somewhere that the problem stems from a race condition where two cpu's try to access the L2 and L3 cache at the same time and store the information in reverse order in the L3 cache but correctly in the L2 cache. If the L2 cache for that particular bit of information is purged from the...
Its not the only power from the wall that matters! (Pick whatever numbers you want)If your whole system uses 300 watts(hypothetically) under load with the CPU overclocked, and 210 when not overclocking the CPU. That means that the CPU is increasing your TOTAL draw by 30 percent like you said...
Im thinking about finally upgrading.
Should I get the system builder or the Retail Box?
Should I install 32 or 64 bit.(I mostly play games and encode video) I know most software doesnt benifit from 64 bit but will 64 bit hurt anything?
Or should I keep using XP for a while longer...
okay im a BIG exaggerator! but here as you can see going from 3.0Ghz to 4.0Ghz DOUBLES the power requirements
i was wrong to say 250 watts
http://www.tomshardware.com/20...ir_cooling/page14.html
calculating overclocking power usage:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=94726
"So this 36% overclock and 18% core voltage increase has resulted in a 88% wattage increase."
power leakage:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2343&p=3
The smaller the process the more power...
I would suspect Hector Ruiz is out, its too soon to make a product announcement, whatever it will be it will be really bad or really good
AMD should have launched a 3.0GHz part but ended up with 2.4 Ghz with issues, someone has got to take the hit for that.
Its also possible they hired on...
when video memory goes bad you should see artifacting everywhere, even outside of games.
When you see artifacting only during high loads it could mean its heat related, like dust clogging up your ATI heatsink fins.
Those all look like direct X10 games and your probably running windows...
the only point in overclocking now is if you have the fastest CPU money can buy and the cash and time to blow on risky water cooling and sub-ambient cooling equipment. Or if its a hobby you like. Some people love to tweak settings day in and out.
for example, You can buy a budget Chip with a...
overclocking increases the rate of electromigration along all of the circuits of a CPU. While an overclock may seem stable at first, usually they eventually become unstable sometimes even if you return to stock speeds. Whether its 6 days 6 months or 6 years its never predictable. Also...
The only problem i can find with my Phenom and 790FX is that i have to run the memory at DDR2 800(the bios is defaulting me to 800) because 1066 causes bad things to happen. This could be a problem with the motherboard and the memory compatibility more then the cpu's fault. However, the effect...
You guys are blowing this way out of proportion
-If your going out of your way to buy a amd's long awaited quad core chip at launch and build it yourself your probably also aware of something called the internet, and early adopters should always know this kind of stuff can happen with early...
its metal that conducts electricity
and the thing that bothers me is that they go through all the trouble to put these nameplates on the motherboard and never wondered what could happen if the glue failed
I upgraded from an x2 3800 w/ DFI ultra-d and 2GB of XMS along with a 7800GT
The motherboard defaults to DDR-2 800 and if i force it to 1066 its unstable. Hopefully this is fixed.
Other then that everything is perfect. I dont know about overclockability, i would rather just have a...
If you have a Gigabyte motherboard with silentpipe you might want to take off the sticker.
I found mine laying on top of my videocard, luckily i dont think it shorted anything.
The sticker looks to be made of plated sheet metal with adhesive on 1 side.
My particular motherboard model is...
that makes sense, maybe their isnt a problem then if you can de-authorize once you hit the limit
I was just thinking, if i build a new computer every two years, by the year blah blah my itunes music will be botched
AMD needs to focus on higher IPC, and getting as much efficiency as they can out of their parts now that they make their own CPU's, Chipsets, and Videocards.
I just built a new computer last week and yesterday i needed to recharge my ipod and add some songs. Same install of windows
To my surprise, itunes comes up and says im not autorized to have all of the songs I PAYED FOR and deletes all those songs from my IPOD automatically without...
My system specs are in my sig. The bios will only let me go up to 800MHz with my ram, it also autodetects it as DDRII 800. Is this some kind of compatibility problem?
I think everyone was expecting this:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2397&p=17
and instead got this
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...howdoc.aspx?i=3153&p=7
and now we have a AMD died thread
this i know, from this here article
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2738&p=4
Okay so AMD had DDR-I and Intel had DDR-II.....big deal. From those old benchmarks i can see they hadnt even saturated DDR yet. Sure the bandwidth went up but the chips never took advantage of it. They...
I dont mean to appear like some AMD fan-boy, but almost everyone(except for you enlightened people reading this) seem to think the flagship parts makes or breaks the whole company. When in fact..... you may be forgetting that the average person is totally oblivious to whatever they are...
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