ASROCK 960GC-GS FX and FX8320E
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Topic: ASROCK 960GC-GS FX and FX8320E
Posted By: Phoenix21
Subject: ASROCK 960GC-GS FX and FX8320E
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2016 at 11:09pm
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A year ago I bought an ASrock 960GC-GS FX. Long story short, I upgraded today from an athlon 64 and 2GB of RAM to an FX 8320E and 8GB of ram. However, there is a HUGE problem. The CPU is downclocked. REALLY downclocked. It is not because of the temperature. Is the motherboard causing this? |
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Posted By: PetrolHead
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2016 at 11:39pm
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You need to be more specific. What sort of clock speeds are you seeing and in which conditions? Just a quick check and some googling on the motherboard reveals a VRM section that is looking really weak. Apparently it only has 3 phases for the CPU and no heatsink, so I wouldn't expect it to be able to handle any FX CPU without issues. The motherboard would thus be my first guess, but more details on what you're seeing and how you're monitoring your computer would be good to have. ------------- Ryzen 5 1500X, ASRock AB350M Pro4, 2x8 GB G.Skill Trident Z 3466CL16, Sapphire Pulse RX Vega56 8G HBM2, Corsair RM550x, Samsung 960 EVO SSD (NVMe) 250GB, Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500 GB, Windows 10 64-bit |
Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2016 at 1:34am
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In addition to what PetrolHead stated that CPU is only supported properly from BIOS version 1.40 and above. If it is not detected correctly it will default to 800mhz or whatever the board determines as "safe" for an unknown CPU. ------------- 
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Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2016 at 5:35am
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My opinion, for what it's worth is ASRock overshot the moon in declaring this board OK for 95W processors. IMO, any board that has instruction on the use of a/any CPU on the board, ie: this board and 8320E, is a reach too far. |