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Durvelle27

Durvelle27

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daveybrat said:
Hmmm, according to Asrock's website, it appears that your motherboard only supports a 95Watt version of Bulldozer.

Your FX 8120 is a 125Watt cpu, so it sounds like your processor is throttling it's speed down from lack of power from the motherboard under load.

That would explain the performance drops while gaming.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/880GM-LE FX/?cat=CPU
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i was just about to mention that when i looked at the cpu support list. You beat me to it :p. OP if undervolting doesn't work just get this


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...name=AMD%20970


or


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131872
 
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My Sabertooth 990 Rev 2.0 board will support that processor, and some upcoming/current ones as well. I would recommend trying to get to ~4.2 or so with barely over stock voltage. There are a lot of settings in the BIOS for preventing the processor from having voltage sags under load, and such. Also an option for gaming(and increasing clock headroom to ~4.5 or so) is to disable cores 1,3,5, and 7. This cuts current draw, heat output, and gives each core a full 256 bit floating point unit. Normally, that FPU is shared with two cores, and the scheduler for that sharing is not too great i the 81xx line.
 
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Considering this 125watt CPU actually uses 200 watts and this is a 95watt board, I'd just rather get a new board then mess with undervolting. You won't get it down to 95 watts and you can kiss overclocking goodbye
 
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Solomutt said:
My Sabertooth 990 Rev 2.0 board will support that processor, and some upcoming/current ones as well. I would recommend trying to get to ~4.2 or so with barely over stock voltage. There are a lot of settings in the BIOS for preventing the processor from having voltage sags under load, and such. Also an option for gaming(and increasing clock headroom to ~4.5 or so) is to disable cores 1,3,5, and 7. This cuts current draw, heat output, and gives each core a full 256 bit floating point unit. Normally, that FPU is shared with two cores, and the scheduler for that sharing is not too great i the 81xx line.
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but im asuming your sabertooth was an expensive board? i only really want to spend 90-115 bucks im a cheap bastard hahaah nar but ive already spent a lot of money trying to fix this problem and im over it ahhah ow would i go about disabling those cores it sounds crazy to me but im hearing you out and sort of seeing your point because i only have the option to choose from 6 cores in my bios not 8 its weird?
 
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RiverPhoenix said:
thats actually pre decent :D would that ram be better than my kingston?
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It's not better than your kingston, but since the motherboard i linked to you has 4 ram slots instead of 2 like yours has, you not only get a new fancy motherboard, you get to have 16GB of ram now as well.

2 upgrades for the price of 1! :)
 
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RiverPhoenix

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daveybrat said:
It's not better than your kingston, but since the motherboard i linked to you has 4 ram slots instead of 2 like yours has, you not only get a new fancy motherboard, you get to have 16GB of ram now as well.

2 upgrades for the price of 1! :)
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sweet as! i didnt think ahha thats legendary :D
 
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Before you buy another motherboard we can at least confirm that this is indeed the problem. Anything that graphs your CPU frequency over time should do the job. HWMonitor or even just resource monitor (from task manager or type resmon.exe in start menu) will show you the frequency over time. Lets make sure that it is actually downclocking before you make a purchase that might not actually be the problem.
 
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RiverPhoenix

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BrightCandle said:
Before you buy another motherboard we can at least confirm that this is indeed the problem. Anything that graphs your CPU frequency over time should do the job. HWMonitor or even just resource monitor (from task manager or type resmon.exe in start menu) will show you the frequency over time. Lets make sure that it is actually downclocking before you make a purchase that might not actually be the problem.
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ok sweet so i was going to use performance monitor and log while playing say ac3 my processor Frequency ? would that work?
 
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RiverPhoenix said:
ok sweet so i was going to use performance monitor and log while playing say ac3 my processor Frequency ? would that work?
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Just having it open will do the job. The blue line is the frequency and if its downclocking we should see that drop below the normal for the period you are having a problem. I would feel somewhat better about having an absolute value graph, maybe MSI afterburner graphs or some such.

The most obviously cause is the CPU downclocking, the GPU downclocking or something in the background. We can eliminate the CPU and GPU by recording clock speed and utilisation MSI Afterburner can do the last 2 in one program so I would say use that instead of my prior recommendation.
 
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Rvenger

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daveybrat said:
It's not better than your kingston, but since the motherboard i linked to you has 4 ram slots instead of 2 like yours has, you not only get a new fancy motherboard, you get to have 16GB of ram now as well.

2 upgrades for the price of 1! :)
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FYI - Newegg includes 1 stick of 8gb with that deal. If the OP is running 2 sticks now the 8gb stick they provide will put his configuration in single channel unless he purchases another stick of 8gb.
 
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RiverPhoenix

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Rvenger said:
FYI - Newegg includes 1 stick of 8gb with that deal. If the OP is running 2 sticks now the 8gb stick they provide will put his configuration in single channel unless he purchases another stick of 8gb.
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im not getting that board anymore because i just realized its a bloody american site...
 
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