I have two phenom II's which give great performance at work. I swear by them!!
I have just purchased as a third CPU chip a new pile-driver FX-8150 that I put onto an existing AMD board being M5A99X EVO.
The performance is not as good as the old phenom II X4 965 which had been on that board!
So I am looking to increase performance for ordinary work not particularly for gaming.
If i use the automatic overclocking of the Asus motherboard it overclocks to 17X multiplier and 250 Core Speed.
This is pretty fast but not as fast as the X4 965.
So I looked to use hand methods as I had successfully used on my Phenom II X6 1100T on an old Asus motherboard.
That involved leaving pretty much leaving the core speed alone and raising the multiplier. On the 1100T 18 multiplier and 204 core speed gave me all the performance I needed and I am very happy. I realize I could have further increased both parameters.
Well when I tried this on the piledriver by hand using the Asus AI Suite 2. It crashed at only 18X!! I see others have gone to 21X and higher to increase performance without crashing. What am I doing wrong or NOT doing that it crashed at 18???
But that begs the question. Am i barking up the wrong tree attempting to increase the multiplier? Maybe I should be working on only increasing the core speed as per the attempts by the Asus Suite2 in automatic mode?
Any advice as to what methods should be used to improve the piledriver FX 8150 performance to at least to that of the old Phenom II X4 965 would be appreciated.
PS I put on the microsoft "fix" too. Maybe that is my problem??
Roe5685.
I have just purchased as a third CPU chip a new pile-driver FX-8150 that I put onto an existing AMD board being M5A99X EVO.
The performance is not as good as the old phenom II X4 965 which had been on that board!
So I am looking to increase performance for ordinary work not particularly for gaming.
If i use the automatic overclocking of the Asus motherboard it overclocks to 17X multiplier and 250 Core Speed.
This is pretty fast but not as fast as the X4 965.
So I looked to use hand methods as I had successfully used on my Phenom II X6 1100T on an old Asus motherboard.
That involved leaving pretty much leaving the core speed alone and raising the multiplier. On the 1100T 18 multiplier and 204 core speed gave me all the performance I needed and I am very happy. I realize I could have further increased both parameters.
Well when I tried this on the piledriver by hand using the Asus AI Suite 2. It crashed at only 18X!! I see others have gone to 21X and higher to increase performance without crashing. What am I doing wrong or NOT doing that it crashed at 18???
But that begs the question. Am i barking up the wrong tree attempting to increase the multiplier? Maybe I should be working on only increasing the core speed as per the attempts by the Asus Suite2 in automatic mode?
Any advice as to what methods should be used to improve the piledriver FX 8150 performance to at least to that of the old Phenom II X4 965 would be appreciated.
PS I put on the microsoft "fix" too. Maybe that is my problem??
Roe5685.
