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    Arctic Silver 5 (aka Old Gray Beard) vs Arctic MX6 (aka Young and Hung) - The Big Show!

    I have owned and operated a PC repair shop/service (drove to houses in the early days) for nearly two decades. I have used tons of pastes and I ultimately settled on Arctic Silver 5 because it has a high thermal conductivity, it's thick enough for my weird method of application (I literally bump...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    AMD chip temperature sensors report temps that are obviously way off (like 20C-30C below room temperature) until they hit a certain bottom threshold. I used OHM and HWInfo64 to get the reported CPU temperatures. The thermal margin reported in AOD is the number of degrees remaining before...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    I have single cores drop to the 1400 MHz range periodically, but I'm also running a bunch of x264 encodes which don't necessarily use 100% CPU on all cores 100% of the time. I'm more keen to assign a periodic single-core MHz drop to sampling near the beginning or end of two separate frame...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    I guess that only time will tell!
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    Before reading the rest of this post, I want to apologize if I have been disrespectful. I switched to a different monitoring program and installed AMD Overdrive. The FX-9590 is hovering at 58C-59C and has been at full load for at least six hours straight. AMD Overdrive reports that all my...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    That board is not a 990FX chipset and doesn't have fat heatsinks on the VRMs and chipset like the M5A99FX Pro R2.0, so your comparison is not even relevant. There's a big difference between the M5A97 LE R2.0 and the M5A99FX Pro R2.0. Those differences are why the latter works with the 220W chips...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    The board manufacturer says the board and the CPU are compatible. I put them together. I have been running them together for over a month. I've run them at 100% or near-100% load on all 8 cores for days at a time and nothing has crashed. My real-world experience and the motherboard manufacturer...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    Follow-up: I reset the numbers 15+ minutes into two separate edit/transcodes (black bars being in the video stream are so annoying) and ran a 1080p video just to add to the fire. The numbers still don't bother me...thoughts? EDIT: OHM read the bus clock wrong when I reset it, so the displayed...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    Gaming performance of CPUs beyond mid-range is largely irrelevant today. The human eye is physically incapable of seeing a difference once you're past 50-60 frames per second and the CPU money is better spent on a GPU and better input devices if gaming is the workload being performed.
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    The AMD FX-9590 chip is $199 on NeweggBusiness right now. Here's my price-to-performance comparison of the FX-9590 (when it was $250 or so) against Intel offerings:
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 M5A99FX PRO R2.0 supported CPUs - FX-9590 The board was designed to be able to work with this chip. It has extra MOSFETs and huge heatsinks on all the MOSFETs specifically to handle the 220W chips. I'm not worried about MOSFETs under hours of 100%...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    I can understand it when you're doing electrical work in a house. I used to install cable services and network cabling and the worst jobs were the ones where some previous cable guy decided to pull wires indiscriminately. I recently spent two hours at someone's business just cleaning up 30 or so...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    Different strokes for different folks. I'm just an opinionated and pragmatic person; that doesn't mean I'm right, just that I'm convincing. As for how hot the air-cooled FX-9590 is, I'll let the computer do the talking. I should point out that below a certain threshold, these AMD chips' internal...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    When your airflow requirements consist of "pull air in the top, push it through the heatsink, pull it back out the top" there's nothing that cable management does for you. If you have enough wires lying around that they can impede your airflow, you need a bigger case. As for working...
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    FX 9590 Facts I have one

    Those look really nice. Looks like this is becoming the "big heatsinks" thread. I thought I'd show you guys why cable management is pointless to me...
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