AMD FX-9590 Vishera 8-Core 4.7 GHz

High priced, unavailable, perfect. Now (years later), it's cheap and available.... for when nobody cares. This is why I'm always skeptical when it come to AMD.
 
I have 2 of these, each cooled with a corsair 115i closed loop cooler. Will be the last cpu I need to buy for quite some time. At 94$, thats a monster upgrade, and some serious bang for your buck.
 
I have 2 of these, each cooled with a corsair 115i closed loop cooler. Will be the last cpu I need to buy for quite some time. At 94$, thats a monster upgrade, and some serious bang for your buck.

Pretty sure a Ryzen 2300x and 2500x will tear this chip to shreads across the board, and that's with half the cores and lower clock speeds.
 
Wasn't this chip an utter fail?

Ran super super super hot to the point where only certain motherboards can handle it stock-wise (250W TDP).

It looks like even the low end Ryzen chips are able to beat this chip 5-10% at stock.
 
It's a cheap option if you already have a AM3 board (that can supply the power required) and DDR3. If you don't have both get a Ryzen CPU instead.
 
I would love to buy this just to play around. However, you cannot really purchase a good board for this unless it is used and stupid expensive.
 
As mentioned, only a few motherboards could handle this chip. I had one of the better ones (Asus M5A99FX Pro) with an 8350 and could only manage 4.4 GHz under load (prime) with a custom loop and fan over the VRM... much more, and the temps went sky high. I remember folks cutting holes in their motherboard trays to cool the backside of the board...
 
my gb 990xa and a 8150 did fine at 4.6. I got a new h110i and thought I could go higher. it did 4.8 for a little while then the board popped and took the cpu with it. so stick to the 990fx boards like stated above ^. I have an empty 970, which is how I found out the chip is dead, so this doesn't help me but its a good deal if your have the parts. :(
 
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Pretty sure a Ryzen 2300x and 2500x will tear this chip to shreads across the board, and that's with half the cores and lower clock speeds.

Not disagreeing.. But if you have an am3+ setup already kicking around with a compatible mother board.. its a solid upgrade for the cost.
 
As mentioned, only a few motherboards could handle this chip. I had one of the better ones (Asus M5A99FX Pro) with an 8350 and could only manage 4.4 GHz under load (prime) with a custom loop and fan over the VRM... much more, and the temps went sky high. I remember folks cutting holes in their motherboard trays to cool the backside of the board...

I have the same mb.. had it a few years now.. with my corsair 115i cooler, this thing hovers around 35c at full tilt. Im not an over clocker, tuner or tweaker so I run everything at stock speeds.. All I care about is when I get home from work, move my mouse around and the machine comes out of sleep mode with no issues. Its been totally stable for me. Only issue I had with over heating was when my first 115i cooler pooped the bed after a year.
 
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I had the FX-8350 and even though my mobo could support a FX-9590 I just went to a 2600X system upgrade when Ebay had that 20% off sale about a month ago. Its a such a stable system with less power draw and I'm looking forward to using the M.2 NVME slots in my new mobo very soon too.
 
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I really wanted one of these chips when they were new even knowing the heat/power draw. The funny thing is my older at this point thinkpad P50 6700hq trades blows with this cpu. So at this point a lot of laptops can overtake this chip in performance doesn't bode well for it being worth a purchase.
 
Although there are folks saying this is a pretty solid deal if you have the motherboard and cooling to support it.

I'm going to be frank and say that this isn't a solid deal rather it is a terrible deal.

Anyone with a compatible board can flip those boards for $100-120 or more on fleabay. Yea you'll have to flip your DDR3 and go with DDR4 if you go with a budget Ryzen build (a far better buy this this chip).

Or hell, pick up a 4th gen i5 or i7 if you want to keep using your DDR3.
 
Yeah, I think even a 2500x will beat this thing, and have an upgrade path. This thing is end-of-life, and uses three times the power (the cooler alone would cost you as much as the CPU).

Clock-for-clock, Ryzen is 60% faster than Piledriver in Cinebench.

And Piledriver only sees about 80% of theoretical in multi-core loads (thanks to the shared front-ends), multiply that by 1.25 (80% * 1.25 = 100% theoretical) to get the multi-core scaling advantage Ryzen enjoys over Piledriver.

It also has multithrerading, which adds 30% per-core in heavy tasks. So bump performance up by another 1.30x


1.6 times the IPC * 1.25 the multi-core scaling efficiency, * 1.30 speedup for smt = 2.6 times the performance per-core in an 8-threaded load. So a 2500x = 30% faster with just 8 threads.

https://techreport.com/review/31366/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-ryzen-7-1700x-and-ryzen-7-1700-
cpus-reviewed/12


Those 9000-series are clocked about 20% faster than the 8370 used in this review but that's still not enough to make up the difference.
 
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Although there are folks saying this is a pretty solid deal if you have the motherboard and cooling to support it.

I'm going to be frank and say that this isn't a solid deal rather it is a terrible deal.

Anyone with a compatible board can flip those boards for $100-120 or more on fleabay. Yea you'll have to flip your DDR3 and go with DDR4 if you go with a budget Ryzen build (a far better buy this this chip).

Or hell, pick up a 4th gen i5 or i7 if you want to keep using your DDR3.

Exactly what I did -- because good AM3+ boards are now a hobby niche, I sold mine for about what I paid for it new in 2013 ($150) and upgraded. The newer platforms are unbelievably impressive in comparison.
 
This chip is garbage. Memory being expensive is the only thing keep this old platforms alive.
 
I had an old Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Revision 4 laying around, so I bought one. Let's see if it blows up...I might undervolt a bit and just run it at 4.5 without the turbo. This will replace an old FX-6300.
 
aaah, memories..

I loved that CPU. I leave hating to haters, ignorance does that to you :)
If you worked math, knew what you were doing and could not afford an Intel? That was you. Served me proudly for a looong time, no complaints.

Now in regard to mobos, frankly? Only one choice and no, yet again, it's not an overhyped Asus. Asrock eXtreme 9, only board that could drive this monstrocity! 5.2? No problem!
(now finding that board.. yeah, O.K..)

Anyway, as the OP states, he's better off with his new Ryzen, 51%IPC increase means the 9590 would need to run at approximately 8.4GHz to match a 2700x.
At the time however, it was really something. I know why it got the rep it did (it as in the entire SKU lineup), but that's what happens when "gamers" end up defining a whole market.
That's the only sad thing here.. the "gamerzzzz". What it did, for the price it did it, at the time it was available? As stated, no complaints.
Obviously though, no, to anyone reading this, don't buy it, not anymore.
 
aaah, memories..

I loved that CPU. I leave hating to haters, ignorance does that to you :)
If you worked math, knew what you were doing and could not afford an Intel? That was you. Served me proudly for a looong time, no complaints.

Now in regard to mobos, frankly? Only one choice and no, yet again, it's not an overhyped Asus. Asrock eXtreme 9, only board that could drive this monstrocity! 5.2? No problem!
(now finding that board.. yeah, O.K..)

Anyway, as the OP states, he's better off with his new Ryzen, 51%IPC increase means the 9590 would need to run at approximately 8.4GHz to match a 2700x.
At the time however, it was really something. I know why it got the rep it did (it as in the entire SKU lineup), but that's what happens when "gamers" end up defining a whole market.
That's the only sad thing here.. the "gamerzzzz". What it did, for the price it did it, at the time it was available? As stated, no complaints.
Obviously though, no, to anyone reading this, don't buy it, not anymore.

You have a very "unique" way of typing.

I wish I could comprehend it within the first read or two.

I am a big fan of AMD but I refuse to be a "fanboi". Just because someone says this is a bad product doesn't deem the person as a hater.

It's kinda ironic how a typical "ignorant" person is usually the one calling others ignorant haters.
 
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Does anyone know how many of these FX-9590's AMD produced? (serious question)
 
Peoples all over desperate for completely outdated Nvidia 5000/6000 series that are useless except for a collectable, now we have a thread that attempts to shame a relatively current and affordable CPU if the circumstance suites a user?
Come on dudes.
 
I mean, if there is someone out there crazy enough to have a 220w mobo and is currently running say, an FX 6300; this purchase would make total sense....
 
It's kinda ironic how a typical "ignorant" person is usually the one calling others ignorant haters.

Only if the person presuming to dissect the other's statement (yourself in this instance) is equally ignorant. I happen to know exactly what i'm talking about, thank you very much :)

And incidentally, this isn't a "fanboy" talking. I've owned multiple Intels. More to it, the expensive, non-4/6core kind of Intels.
(if you go by such shallow terms in order to make or support an argument, dare one wonder how shallow your thinking process is?)

As mentioned in my post above, for someone needing more cores, at that time, while lacking the fortune required for an Intel? That was the answer.
Further (and unknown to most), these SKUs had incorporated a number of principles and techniques that went underutilised by most, because morons are always the vast majority, it's how the world functions. And morons don't like learning new stuff, brain suffers immensely; the strain, you understand.
Some of these techniques, which Intel made fun of at the time, are now functional in modern i7s and i9s. See branch prediction for starters. The very same strand in fact, no accident.

As to my way of expressing myself, if Oxford found it acceptable, am sure you'll somehow manage as well.
 
Arguing over an EOL chip is pointless. You could make the same argument for picking up a X56XX Xeon for the LGA1366 platform. Why spend $$ to upgrade a dead end platform? That doesn't mean a lot of people didn't do it. My Xeon was a $1000 part in its day, by the time I could afford it, it wasn't the best, but it was still serviceable as long as you had a board for it. The same can be said for these chips.
 
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