Mobo: Asus Sabertooth 990fx r 2.0
Cpu: FX 8350 (stock clock atm)
Cpu cooler : Stock (gonna get an h100i)
OS: Windows 8 Pro 64 bit
Ram: 8 gb kingston beast 1600 mhz
GPU: Asus 7950 v2 (top) @ 1080 mhz
HDD: 500 gb Seagate
SSD: 60gb Kingston v300 (boot drive)
Hi. I'm gonna start by telling I am not that much of an expert when it comes to PC's, I really like the ins and outs but where I don't know or don't understand I usually go and ask so I don't end up screwing something, I don't really like the trial and error part, I find that learning from other peoples mistakes is more easy.
With that being sad......the Bios....it's a bit of a no man's land for me atm but I really want to get dirty and optimize my machine for the best performance. Other than changeing the preset to performance and the frequency of ram to 1600 mhz I haven't really changed anything. I was looking in the cpu configuration section and all of those things were unknown to me: HPC, Cool'n'Quiet etc.
1. What are the best performance settings for this CPU ? (noise does not matter to me as I use headphones)
2. As I mentioned earlier, I'm running a 64 bit Windows 8 Pro, are there any hotfixes for the bulldozer processors like there were in Windows 7 ?
3. Is there anything else I should tweak, optimize or do in order to get the maximum performance from this machine aside from cleaning trash and defragmenting mechanical drives etc. ?