Johan45 wrote:
I've had extensive experience with the CHVz and yes it will run that speed BUT the FX CPU doesn't respond well to high ram speeds like that. You'll need additional CPU_NB voltage to accommodate the ram speed and the NB speed increase which will also need to be running at 2800 MHz. Typically this just creates more heat and headaches. The benefits you'd see from that speed will be negligible in the real world. You'd be further ahead getting some "good" sticks in the 1800-2000 range and tightening the timings as much as possible.

Ok, I have the 2800Mhz DDR3 RAM. It's currently operating at 2133Mhz, at 1.65V. I can get it to boot into Windows at 2400Mhz, but it doesn't last long, so yeah, some of the other settings, like CPU_NB, will probably need to be tweaked (everything is running on auto right now).

Anything else I should be tweaking?

And on another note, cooling this FX-9590 is a PITA. I've upgraded to a Corsair H115, with ML140 fans swapped for the usual fans, and Thermaltake 200mm fans on the other (top) side, and running Prime95 still pushes it close to overheating. This is in a Corsair Obsidian Airflow 750D Airflow Edition case (swapped the other fans as well). I guess I could try Noctua fans...but there is a real chance of me going deaf here ;-).

I've attached screenshots of both the memory timing tab of the BIOS, as well as the SPD information for the RAM I'm using; however, I am not able to disseminate what all of these labels mean, or what maps to what. CAS Latency is a no brainer, and some of the others I can figure out by looking up 'advanced memory timings' on Google, but still leaves some unaccounted for...anybody got a decoder-ring?

~2400Mhz, not sure how stable this will be (or how long it will take for the Noctua fans I am planning on bolting over the VRMs will take to get here).