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Theoneandonlymrk I saw a pdf done by ek where they recomended tape on the organic portion of the nb and all the thru-holes to prevent and direct contact except on the nb and vrms. Not sure if its...

You are on the right track so far.

Optimally the slow upward crawl approach would be to keep increasing speed an increment at a time either via HTT or Multiplier. Use Prime95/Ycruncher/IBT to...

Thats the exact point, I am not attacking the 8150s' functionality can you read? I will make this easy for you to consume:

If you actually READ the cons, you will see they were exclusively...

STOP THE PRESS :)

I found why the power/heat was so extreme, thank you Asus for Probe IT, the following offests hold true both in the bios, idle, and under load:

These were the measured...

Very curious with your settings, screenies of it running.

At 4.5, I would imagine you can probably keep voltage extremely low, what, 1.4 or less?

Is that Core or CPU temp?

What kind of...

Memory: Mushking 4x4 kit 993997
Part No: 993997
Timings: 9-11-10-28-36-1t
CPU used: 8150

CPU/NB speed: 2550 @ 1.2875v
Max stable speed: 2000mhz
Voltage: 1.665
Ancillary Timings: Auto

I highly recommend verifying your voltages via Probe IT instead of software, my C5F at least is off by a significant margine.

I have not seen anything official about it, and i have searched.

At the end of the day however there is literally zero difference in PCIE 2 vs 3, as a single cards do not saturate the PCIE...

An alternate setup that could help push higher mark is to adjust the following parameters so you can lower heat and bump vcore up a notch to reach slightly higher speeds:

Try reducing your CPU/NB...

Here, if you wanted to see the "small space heater known as the FX 8150" in all its power sucking glory I posted some Killawatt shots :)

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1684893

Actually, once my second GPU gets here, I "may" end up keeping it after looking at in game performace vs benchmark/stress testing.

So, I bought one to see if they were being overly bashed or if they are really as terrible as said.

Results:

PROS:

Performance wise it is actually noticeably more responsive and quicker to...

SSDs are like crack only MORE addictive lol.

In the mean time until you get one installed you can try this:
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/

I am waiting on my new SSDs in the...

Everything in his screen shots look normal:

Slow speed is due to CnQ most likely.
3900 = Turbo speed should be safe on auto voltage level.

I would actually point you to software issues, when...

Thanks for the words. The FX will only ever boot 1 time at stock speeds intentionally, that being the first boot lol. To be 100% honest with you, if I get a dud chip that wont stabilize over...

Update:

Here are most of the pertinent pieces of info in a screen shot, the thing that assisted me in pushing the CPU higher was the DRAM VREFDQ, DRAM VREFCA, and DRAM VREFCPU at .505 instead of...

Well out of frustration last night I ordered a 8150 lol.

Guess the 960t will go back in the old board as my 2nd pc.

On a side note, after tweaking a couple of settings suggested by Raja...

No doubt not terrible gaming processors imo just not my cup o tea.

I am running this Zosma chip (Thuban Phenom II x6 with 2 cores disabled) so there are hidden cores, unlike the FX chips where core unlocker does nothing, on mine there are actually disabled chips to...

I installed my Crosshair V last night. It is sexy, and the VRM cooler is very, very effective compared to my last board (ASUS). Here is the issue:

I migrated from an 880G chipset ASUS board, the...

You DO NOT need a 1kw PSU for a 680 + 8150, even at 5ghz if your air cooling.

Do your research on power draw of each component at the speed you will run them not the stock speed, add them up, and...

You could have 2 dead cores.

You could also have 1 good and 1 dead. Try disabling the 6th and booting, or the 5th and booting see if it works.