FX-8150 - Error while folding, Prime95 errors on 4 cores. Anyone else?

[Lex Luger]

With all the CEO being fired, 15 percent of workforce laid off, failure after failure in CPU dept.(havent been keeping up with intel for five solid years now)

I'm surprised its taking you AMD fans this long to realize they simply are incompetent,(when it comes to cpus)

Stop supporting them, stop buying their cpus, intel gets the job done at every price point:
from budget(pentium g) midrange(2500k) and ultra high end (sandy bridge e)

My grandpa almost use to nag me with

DID YOU LEARN ANYTHING?

 

[nanaki333]

With all the CEO being fired, 15 percent of workforce laid off, failure after failure in CPU dept.(havent been keeping up with intel for five solid years now)

I'm surprised its taking you AMD fans this long to realize they simply are incompetent,(when it comes to cpus)

Stop supporting them, stop buying their cpus, intel gets the job done at every price point:
from budget(pentium g) midrange(2500k) and ultra high end (sandy bridge e)

My grandpa almost use to nag me with

DID YOU LEARN ANYTHING?

uhhh.. my main system is a 2600k....

 

[podspi]

Talk about a company with a customer policy which I would vote with my wallet to NOT support...

I actually had a similar experience with A-data, kept calling for my RMA and they would (not the computer system, an actual person) would redirect me to sales. I eventually just started calling random extensions from their corporate number until I got somebody who could do something :biggrin:

EDIT: i forgot to mention the killer of my phone call. i asked if he sees my response to the ticket that went unanswered. he said it never showed up because my ticket was closed. i guess if i didn't call i would have never gotten anything back.

Wow, that's terrible. Having worked in a call center before as well as calling them many times, either they're way overworked (because they do/should have QA for these tickets), or management has decided to emphasize closing out tickets (and employees are responding to this pressure by just closing tickets and hoping they go away/get dumped on someone else).

My advice to you, again having gone through this on both sides of the conversation, is to (it is incredibly important to do all of this politely)

1) Request exactly what you want. "I want an ETA on you testing the CPU" or "I want an ETA on when I can expect a new CPU", etc.


2) If the rep can't give you a straight solid answer, request (politely, please!) to speak to their manager. Understand that it probably isn't their fault they can't give you a direct answer anyway.

3) Repeat #1 and #2 until you get a direct and firm answer.



This works in almost all places, unless you are mean/nasty, or they really really don't care/incompetent. In the case of my above complaint w/ A-data, they were phasing out the call-center so...

 

[nanaki333]

well what do ya know. i called yesterday to find out a status, only to get told somebody closet out my ticket. they re-open my ticket and FINALLY start testing. 24 hours later, i get an update saying my replacement is being shipped today. thanks a lot amd... i could have had it back weeks ago...

 

[exar333]

I actually had a similar experience with A-data, kept calling for my RMA and they would (not the computer system, an actual person) would redirect me to sales. I eventually just started calling random extensions from their corporate number until I got somebody who could do something :biggrin:



Wow, that's terrible. Having worked in a call center before as well as calling them many times, either they're way overworked (because they do/should have QA for these tickets), or management has decided to emphasize closing out tickets (and employees are responding to this pressure by just closing tickets and hoping they go away/get dumped on someone else).

My advice to you, again having gone through this on both sides of the conversation, is to (it is incredibly important to do all of this politely)

1) Request exactly what you want. "I want an ETA on you testing the CPU" or "I want an ETA on when I can expect a new CPU", etc.


2) If the rep can't give you a straight solid answer, request (politely, please!) to speak to their manager. Understand that it probably isn't their fault they can't give you a direct answer anyway.

3) Repeat #1 and #2 until you get a direct and firm answer.



This works in almost all places, unless you are mean/nasty, or they really really don't care/incompetent. In the case of my above complaint w/ A-data, they were phasing out the call-center so...

Good advice (I worked in a call-ceter for a while back in the day and agree 100%).

This is why I look carefully at the company I buy from. Will they support me if issues come up? How is their service? Is it worth-it to save $10 only to then have to wait 2 extra weeks to RMA because they are incompatent.

That's why I switched from G Skill to Corsair for memory. Over the years, I had issues with both, and Corsair support was 100x better and faster. Unless I am talking a HUGE price difference, support matters. Same on the GPU side; eVGA and XFX have EXCELLENT service, and saving $25 on a 'small-tier' company sometimes is asking for trouble.

 

[nanaki333]

well everybody, i finally got my BD back. prime95 was running for a good 24 hours at stock clocks with no errors. last time it errored on 4 cores after just a minute and would bsod or hard freeze.

this was a huge fiasco. i paid to have it day 1 and i got a huge slap in the face. what kind of company closes an rma case without even testing the product? it took almost a month before i got fed up and called and found out they closed it. then it took another week and a half after that to finally get my chip.

 

[Arkaign]

Well with supplies limited, I just checked Ebay and now looks like a good time to bail on the 8150. Should be an easy sell for around as much or maybe more than you paid.

I can't think of a single reason to own one of those abominations.

You could keep your board and run a good CPU like an X6 until hopefully Piledriver comes out and doesn't suck.

Sorry that happened to you.

 

[nanaki333]

my main machine is a 3930K and my wife's machine is 2500K.

 

[Arkaign]

my main machine is a 3930K and my wife's machine is 2500K.

Ah well cool, I guess you just got it as a curiousity and to check out the tech? Well I can respect that, it is an interesting creature.

 

[haarpbot]

Hey everyone, I didn't overclock or anything, default settings in BIOS..
my comp has been freezing or getting the Blue Screen of Death once in a while when playing Guild Wars 2 (i dont play any other games and my comp froze only once with no games up)... so i started monitoring the temperature using AI Suite II, and so far the highest it's been is 57 degrees celcius... (i don't know the temperature of my room)
i'm pretty disappointed in the temperature as i bought a huge Zalman and fan and am using Artic Silver 3 (though it's years old) cool electronics gadgets

Can overheating cause the Blue Screen of Death? the error is "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval"
The highest temperature the 8150 can reach safely is 60-61 degrees Celcius
since it's not technically there.. would you guys get a new heatsink / fan? if so... what would you recommend that's not ridiculously expensive? thanks for any help

 

[Piotrsama]

^Next time create a new thread, instead of "bumping" such an old one.

But anyways...
What's the rest of your components? (mobo, mem, psu,....)
Stock speeds?

 

[FalseChristian]

RMA that and get the 8-core FX 8350. i5 2600K-level performance for half the price! It blows my i5 2500K out of the water.

 

[blckgrffn]

^Next time create a new thread, instead of "bumping" such an old one.

But anyways...
What's the rest of your components? (mobo, mem, psu,....)
Stock speeds?

Holy crap, this. A mod should shoot this zombie thread where it counts!