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So I've been playing with my FX-9370 for a while trying to get it beyond stock clock and I've had no luck, I've posted here, Reddit pcmasterrace, and Reddit overclocking. So at first I found it weird that changing my voltage didn't actually change anything, which I still find really weird, but my voltage would only change when I changed my LLC. After a few posts someone from the overclocking Reddit added me on Skype and we tried for almost 2 hours to get it to work but we couldn't. This is where it gets weird it would finally boot and run p95 at 4.7ghz but would throttle down to 1.4ghz, which doesn't sound to bad other than the fact that it idles at 4.7ghz and jumps between 4.7ghz and 1.4ghz after a couple minutes in p95. I honestly have no clue what to do now since changing my LLC didn't help, setting it to extreme which gave the most voltage (up to 1.512v) caused an instant crash and the lowest setting which turned out to be low/standard and not the low setting only gave 1.41v which also caused a near instant crash. In my bios no matter what I set my vcore to it never exceeds 1.48v in HWMonitor during p95 testing, unless LLC is set to extreme in which case it crashes. Anyone have any idea whats causing this? In CPUZ my CPU multiplier shows up as 7-23.5 when it is set to 23.5 in the bios.
Bios settings:
http://i.imgur.com/I7BX487.jpg (APM and HPC are now disabled)
http://i.imgur.com/PuRw2BO.jpg (stock voltage settings yet vcore is still 1.48 or lower in p95)
http://i.imgur.com/B1Rs1IZ.jpg (ignore the NB core settings I had just changed and then reverted it to auto before even testing)
http://i.imgur.com/oWGw0S9.jpg (after saving and loading the above settings this is the vcore reading I got)
Setup:
CPU: AMD FX-9370
MOBO: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 rev. 4
PSU: (OCZ) FirePower ModXStream Pro 700MXSP 700W 80Plus
GPU: XFX R9 390
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16gb 1866mhz
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240m
Honestly I think its a mobo problem but I'm not sure. This board also had an issue with the newest F3 bios where it would only boot if my drives were set to IDE, I have since reverted to the F2 bios and no longer have that problem. Would something like this be worth trying to contact Gigabyte? Also if all of this is something I can't really change or would be a long difficult process I may just wait it out and switch to Zen when it comes out but I would still like to get this thing OCed and get a good daily OC setup. Thanks all.
Bios settings:
http://i.imgur.com/I7BX487.jpg (APM and HPC are now disabled)
http://i.imgur.com/PuRw2BO.jpg (stock voltage settings yet vcore is still 1.48 or lower in p95)
http://i.imgur.com/B1Rs1IZ.jpg (ignore the NB core settings I had just changed and then reverted it to auto before even testing)
http://i.imgur.com/oWGw0S9.jpg (after saving and loading the above settings this is the vcore reading I got)
Setup:
CPU: AMD FX-9370
MOBO: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 rev. 4
PSU: (OCZ) FirePower ModXStream Pro 700MXSP 700W 80Plus
GPU: XFX R9 390
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16gb 1866mhz
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240m
Honestly I think its a mobo problem but I'm not sure. This board also had an issue with the newest F3 bios where it would only boot if my drives were set to IDE, I have since reverted to the F2 bios and no longer have that problem. Would something like this be worth trying to contact Gigabyte? Also if all of this is something I can't really change or would be a long difficult process I may just wait it out and switch to Zen when it comes out but I would still like to get this thing OCed and get a good daily OC setup. Thanks all.