I’m honestly at a loss of what to title this one, as so many things happened. First off, my earbuds I use at night, the right one is starting to die on me(putting most of the music into my left ear)…will the money spending EVER END?!
With that said, it’s time to start the main show. Remember when I said I was going to make a thread in the Linus Tech Tips forum, trying to look for answers of why my computer isn’t booting up the first time I turn it on?
I did, but I didn’t get the quick response I got with my last thread. Though, two things are suspected there;
1. It’s night.
2. Tomorrow’s another work week.
I did get one response, asking if I reinstalled Windows. Heh..did I reinstall? I was forced to, pal. Yet the guy had also quoted my entire post for no reason. I really dislike people that do that (quote the OP and then post a low to no-effort response).
Another guy tells the last guy to not quote, yet doesn’t bother responding to me about my issue. I’m forced to say something like “is the 9590 a bit too powerful?”
The guy responded, with startling news….saying the cooler I have now, isn’t enough for it. Yet, it’s like he never read where I said it was underclocked so it would be enough for it.
The other guy I’ve been talking to, wasn’t surprised to hear how he feels like he fucked up yet again. It seems the only way to properly cool a 9590 is through watercooling. I guess this proves going back to the 4350 until I can get a CPU that can support not just my hardware (but the way I can cool it), is the best thing to do.
Unfortunately, it won’t be as easy as removing the cooler to access the CPU, as the cooler has a backplate…requiring me to remove the motherboard to access. NOPE! Yet I fear by saying that, I would be ignoring the risk of maybe possible further damage to my hardware of my computer turning itself off during POST.
And another thing I just remembered…the window to RMA the CPU is closing quite rapidly (the 30 days since I got the original hardware). If I don’t do something soon, I’ll be officially stuck with it.
Moving on, still discussing the issue, I got linked to another forum called Overclockers.net, telling me to try them and see what they say. So I do, I make my first post as the issue in the specific AMD section.
Got a response, also saying the cooler won’t support the full power of the CPU, and suggesting I downgrade to this ‘8320E’ CPU…again, the person NEVER read the fact I said I had underclocked the damn thing(I even put it in as the thread title). Read the OP fully, people! Stop being lazy and TL;DRing!
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After that, I tried completely shutting down and restarting my computer again (after slightly adjusting a setting though AMD OverDrive). This time, it took 7 attempts to boot correctly. However, I’m beginning to see a pattern emerging. The initial time I turn on my computer, it shuts down a half a second later. Second time, it’s two beeps and shuts off, and then it repeats every time I hit the power button.
And it seems, the only way to break this chain is to quickly hit the power button a second after it shuts down. So far I only discovered this when it beeps and does it. Again, it could be a random thing.
I’m starting to think that there might be a short either in the cables or the motherboard. But before I put the blame on the guy who installed the hardware, I’m going to try to reset BIOS. If it doesn’t happen, then clearly it’s an issue I (and the guy that helped me) created. But if it does…then either the underclocking caused permanent damage to the motherboard, or the guy didn’t do something right. Either one of those things aren’t good for me (especially the ‘permanent damage’ thing).
I personally feel, it is an issue with BIOS. And even if it is, that’s still not good for me (as that will prove I have no business owning the 9590). But with no money to pay to make the switch back to the 4350 (of this month), I…I dunno what I’m going to do.
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I did however report my findings to the Overclocker forum post I made, hoping this one would be more useful to me. But then I decided to try the Java-based games and see how the CPU reacts to a ‘real world environment’.
The first test was with Wurm. I got an FPS of around 40-50 almost everywhere, but no sudden drop in FPS as before (with the old motherboard). As for the CPU temps, they…well, how does 28*C on load sound? Unfuckingbelievable? Yeah, I agree. It feels too cool. Though, Core Temp is probably reading the wrong sensor (like all of these other ones). But even still..yeah, something’s definitely not right here.
Minecraft, gave me slightly higher temps in the 30’s (and a lower FPS at my base). The FPS never got past 30 (even with Optifine), which is quite questionable (with Core Temp showing the core speed was going at 4017.76Mhz all of that time). It’s almost that the underclocking caused more harm than good for single-threaded games. Rather upsetting indeed. I can almost hear the FTB Discord saying “HA-ha! TOLD you that CPU is pathetic on single-threading! You should had gone Intel, brah!”
Well, at least here, too, the FPS ‘throttling’ is gone. So, it’s not bad..but it’s not good either. I don’t think I’ll ever see an FPS in the 70’s until I undo the underclocking (which will cause temps to go highly unstable).
With these two showing nearly the same FPS (and similar core temps), I’m getting worried that non Java-based games will be the same way. Because, even with the ‘throttling’ in Minecraft and Wurm, it somehow made the other games I have to run smoother. Guess I could try ED and check its FPS.
The temps alone, baffle me. How could it be that cool, when I had much higher temps when I was stress testing with Prime95? Is it because not all cores are at 100% usage? It almost makes me wonder if I should try to undo the underclocking and see what happens. Of course, the ‘worst that could happen’ is potential damage to the CPU.
And that’s all there is to say. I’ll be back tomorrow to report more findings (and if I get a response in both threads I made).