I got an fx-4100 and a gigabyte 990fx-u3 motherboard for 100 dollars on the spot. My cousin was upgrading to an asus sabertooth 990fx and an 8350 and I got what was left over! He gave me the 8350 cooler to throw on the 4100 and it works great! OC'd to 4 ghz and 1.4875 volts and never get above 47 degrees celcius at full load for 1 hour. Pics of build coming up soon!
My new AMD FX-4100 on a Gigabyte 990FX-U3 Motherboard! Oh and 2 new 120 mm xigmatek fans ;)
Good job!
Though I doubt the voltage needs to be that high. Roll it back some and see if it is still stable - you may be able to squeeze more speed out of it yet.
very cool, if i was you i would play with it for a while, and if you can afford it someday, upgrade the cpu to a FX6300/8320 or so..
lower you voltage. i'm using the 4100 stable at 4.5ghz with a push pull hyper 212 evo and i'm only at 1.43 volts
Lowered the voltage to 1.440 plenty stable and smooth and yes I will be getting an FX-8350 in the near future.
Stable at 4.56 ghz. Max temp is now 50 C under full load. Still great!
voltage?
1.440
That seems better. More Ghz with less temps! Told you!
How is it performing? What is that EVGA GPU you have in there?
That evga is a 650 ti 2gb and it is performing great! Running nice and smooth. No glitching or freezing amd doesn't get to hot. Temp program I was using was inaccurate though. Max temp is actually 61 C at full 100% load clocked to 4.56 ghz at 1.44 volts I checked this via a bios program for the motherboard from Gigabyte. I am getting 40+ FPS in BF3 at 1080p on average and never dipping below 32 on maxed out settings so it is doing very well.
Use HWMonitor or CoreTemp and tell us what they say for the temperature. I don't trust motherboard supplier temperature readouts as they often give the socket temp rather than the core temps.
Crazy enough the coretemp and HWmonitor is what was giving me the incorrect reading. It said it was idling at 7 C in both of those programs and maxing at 50. The motherboard program seems more accurate saying 26 C at idle and 61 C max.
What is the ambient temperature in your region at the moment?
Did your motherboard support your CPU out of the box (as in was it on the supported list for your bios version)? Something doesn't seem right here - it is very unusual for HWMonitor to be wrong. In my experience, if it is wrong it is because the bios needs flashing.
HWMonitor is allways wrong with FX chips lol....it tells you the hotest single thread/module instead of the chips temp
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My cpu temp is 35c not 13c
The bios is up to date and yes the CPU is in the list of supported CPU's.... This is a 990FX motherboard... Temp test will be done for 8-10 hours at full 100% load. Video will be made and screen shots taken. Goal is to stay under 60 C at 4,6 Ghz on Stock cooler at 100% load under 1.4 volts. Let's make it happen captin! :D
I know that HWMonitor only gives the hottest module - that is generally what I want to know. If the others are cooler then I'm not worried about them... Unless I'm very wrong? Paranoid now.
I find CoreTemp gives the exact same readout.
What would you suggest as better for the FX chips?
Speed fan --> http://www.filehippo.com/download_speedfan/
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or just useing the softwhere given with your mobo
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I'll try speedfan. I don't trust the ASUS software at all for temperatures, as on the stock fan at stock clocks the ASUS software was reporting temps of higher than 70 degrees on load for an FX-6300. I thought that couldn't be right - so I ran 12 hours of Prime95 and not a single core failed. So I thought I'd try something else, I overclocked to 4ghz on the stock cooler, and ran the test again. It was reporting rediculous temperatures, but nothing failed. I even tried re-seating the cooler with some Noctua paste, and it caused no noticable difference.
My only conclusion after this was either that the software was batty or that the temp sensor was faulty. So I switched out the stock cooler for a TX3 I had laying around and at 4ghz it was still reporting crazy temps.
But when I check with CoreTemp or HWMonitor the temperatures seem to be right about where they should be based on reports from other people for temps at certain voltages given the ambient.
Weird.