890GX Extreme 4
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Topic: 890GX Extreme 4
Posted By: Capt_JuMbO
Subject: 890GX Extreme 4
Date Posted: 02 May 2018 at 2:27am
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I recently bought Mafia 3 and the game couldn't run because 2K support said my CPU isn't strong enough to run the game so it will crash. My PC is as follows: MOBO: AS Rock 890GX Extreme 4 Processor : AMD Phenom 2 965 Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 660 RAM: 4 GB Windows 7 SP1 I know the build is a bit old maybe like 7 years  but it worked good and always has. I check up the system requirments for the game and they said minimum a FX processor. I would also like to run Assassins Creed Orign and Tomb Raider : Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I noticed that AS Rock released a 2.0 version of the same board i got and also saw that some manufactures had BIOS updates to run the new AM3+ processors. On the AS Rock website there is a BIOS update version 1.30. Is there a way to run the AM3+ processors on this board ? Is there a way to tell what the BIOS updates on AS Rocks website does for my board? I know simply upgrading to a new board and new system would be easy but everything s till works just would like to make the best out of this setup before upgrading the entire thing. |
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Posted By: cristy6100
Date Posted: 02 May 2018 at 2:34am
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Its simple, on the AM3/AM3+ you can know if your board supports an FX by looking at the socket, if its white it does not support FX series, if its black it does. (this is a general support meaning the board can boot with an FX CPU, the 8350/8370/9370/9590 FX's have other requirements also regarding board VRM quality and power, but any board with a black socket should be able to support up to a 95W FX CPU. As far as the ------------- Main Rig: AMD Ryzen 2400G | ASRock Fatality X370 ITX/ac UEFI 4.90 | Corsair LPX DDR4 2400@3200 1.35V | Corsair RM650i PSU | CM ML120L AiO Cooler |
Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 02 May 2018 at 4:20am
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on a small side note having also a 965 in another system the actual power of the 965 isnt any different to 'most' of the fx range it seems the problem is caused by limitations of the game rather than the cpu (eg they blocked the high end phenoms for no reason) and yes my am3 board does support the fx cpu's but i feel no need to bother upgrading it due to any gain being only with the fx8xxx series and then only in some cases ------------- [url=https://valid.x86.fr/jpg250]  [/url]3800X, powercolor reddevil vega64, gskill tridentz3866, taichix370, evga750watt gold |