Will have the FX 8350 in tomorrow

[Bubbleawsome]

Watch out for ULPS. Mine did it while folding and hit 105c for who know how long. (Maybe 3 hours.)

 

[Bradtech519]

No crashes tonight with gtx 580. I'm thinking disabling cool and quiet,downclockinf my ddr 2133 sticks to 1333, and manually setting voltage on RAM might have cleared it up. One of those three. I may up my ram to ddr3 1600 and keep the voltage bumped up. Not sure id see much,if any bump.

 

[cbk]

The FX-8350 was a great choice, the extra cores will make CPU-demanding projects so much faster and hassle free.

 

[cbk]

Watch out for ULPS. Mine did it while folding and hit 105c for who know how long. (Maybe 3 hours.)

105C!?!?!? I'm surprised your house did not set on fire!

 

[Sunny129]

No crashes tonight with gtx 580. I'm thinking disabling cool and quiet,downclocking my ddr 2133 sticks to 1333, and manually setting voltage on RAM might have cleared it up. One of those three. I may up my ram to ddr3 1600 and keep the voltage bumped up. Not sure id see much,if any bump.

i'm tempted to agree with you even though i'm not there with you. while i had similar experiences in the past, it was on a Gigabyte (not an MSI) board. nevertheless, i ultimately had to change memory voltage control to "manual" and play w/ the values until i found a stable voltage. i was able to do this at the memory's rated speed of 1600 though, and didn't have to bump down to 1333. likewise, i always keep Cool-n-Quiet disabled. i can see how it might come in handy for someone who's computer idles alot...but all my machines are dedicated crunchers in one way or another, and so i have no need to ever throttle the CPU clock or the CPU fan speed b/c its always crunching.

back when DDR 1600 was the premier standard, and anything above and beyond that was meant only for deep-pocketed enthusiasts, the performance increase never ever came close to justifying the price premium. now things have changed alot since DDR 1600 was the highest memory standard, so perhaps today's chipset and buses can actually take advantage of the massive difference in clock speed between DDR 1600 and something like DDR 2133, but i'm not sure. what i do know though, is that there has always been a tangible difference between DDR 1333 and DDR 1600 performance, even if the difference isn't super substantial.

in summary, i would leave Cool-n-Quiet disabled. then i would slowly increase the memory clock (and leave the voltage where it is now) until you start having stability issues again, and then drop the memory clock back down to the last stable clock speed. alternatively, you could start by slowly decreasing voltage (and leaving the clock speed where it is now) until you again start having stability issues, and then drop the voltage back down to the last stable setting.

 

[Bradtech519]

I've had it going a couple hours with the same voltage at DDR 1600. Sucks that this ram is 2133 and hates running at 1866 which is the max for the board. I found some Kingston HyperX that is rated for 1866 2x4GB on this board. I may try to sell this RAM since it has came back clean in memtest86 and use some of here

http://us.msi.com/file/test_report/TR10_2400.pdf

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820104277

i'm tempted to agree with you even though i'm not there with you. while i had similar experiences in the past, it was on a Gigabyte (not an MSI) board. nevertheless, i ultimately had to change memory voltage control to "manual" and play w/ the values until i found a stable voltage. i was able to do this at the memory's rated speed of 1600 though, and didn't have to bump down to 1333. likewise, i always keep Cool-n-Quiet disabled. i can see how it might come in handy for someone who's computer idles alot...but all my machines are dedicated crunchers in one way or another, and so i have no need to ever throttle the CPU clock or the CPU fan speed b/c its always crunching.

back when DDR 1600 was the premier standard, and anything above and beyond that was meant only for deep-pocketed enthusiasts, the performance increase never ever came close to justifying the price premium. now things have changed alot since DDR 1600 was the highest memory standard, so perhaps today's chipset and buses can actually take advantage of the massive difference in clock speed between DDR 1600 and something like DDR 2133, but i'm not sure. what i do know though, is that there has always been a tangible difference between DDR 1333 and DDR 1600 performance, even if the difference isn't super substantial.

in summary, i would leave Cool-n-Quiet disabled. then i would slowly increase the memory clock (and leave the voltage where it is now) until you start having stability issues again, and then drop the memory clock back down to the last stable clock speed. alternatively, you could start by slowly decreasing voltage (and leaving the clock speed where it is now) until you again start having stability issues, and then drop the voltage back down to the last stable setting.

 

[Bradtech519]

Solid over night.. Thinking 1600 is going to work..