AMD FX 8350 newly installed but I can't run any games!

[dimitriianghelov]

so i have a fx-8350 to and i can tell you 2 things that happened to me :

1-> it's summer so the stock cooler was never enough to play games ( after a few minutes it would auto shut down )

2-> once i've put to much cooling pasta on cpu and it made it run hotter

 

very important: when it goes above 65 *C it's overheating , meaning soon it will auto shut down

 

you should get a new cpu cooler

 

install Asus suite II from the motherboard cd and it will tell you when it's overheating or if it has other errors

[Guest]

so i have a fx-8350 to and i can tell you 2 things that happened to me :

1-> it's summer so the stock cooler was never enough to play games ( after a few minutes it would auto shut down )

2-> once i've put to much cooling pasta on cpu and it made it run hotter

 

very important: when it goes above 65 *C it's overheating , meaning soon it will auto shut down

 

you should get a new cpu cooler

 

install Asus suite II from the motherboard cd and it will tell you when it's overheating or if it has other errors

 

 

Again, like I said before, the only time my CPU has ever run that hot was when I did a stress test. The CPU ran at 100% for over 20 minutes and only ever got as hot as 165 F. Usually it runs at 80-90 F. Besides that, I have Asus Suite II installed and other programs that will shut down my pc if my CPU starts to get too hot. The CPU performance never goes above 30% when I run a game and the temperature never exceeds 100 F.

[Chris635]

Priller is correct. All of your voltages are way to low. When you get the voltages set correctly, and based off of your previous temperatures, that stock heat sink will have a hard time keeping it cool unless you get better air flow in your case.

[dimitriianghelov]

Again, like I said before, the only time my CPU has ever run that hot was when I did a stress test. The CPU ran at 100% for over 20 minutes and only ever got as hot as 165 F. Usually it runs at 80-90 F. Besides that, I have Asus Suite II installed and other programs that will shut down my pc if my CPU starts to get too hot. The CPU performance never goes above 30% when I run a game and the temperature never exceeds 100 F.

if you go to asus suite ->tool-> probe II : Alert log ; then if you scroll up when you were trying to play a game does it say anything or it's just normal?

 

i have to agree with priller your voltage setting don't seem right, try going and runing default setting i'll upload my voltages in a sec

http://oi62.tinypic.com/2vt9q4h.jpg

[-rascal-]

IMO AI Suite II is garbage. AI Suite III is better.

I have A.I. Suite II for my ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula, and it keeps indicating false readings (i.e. fan speed to low, Core voltage too low).

I'd recommend:

1) CPU-Z for clock speed & Core Voltage

2) HWMonitor / AIDA64 for temperatures and voltages

[Guest]

Well I changed the various settings in my BIOS and that did not fix the problem. I also looked through AI Suite II and the alert log did not report anything after my pc froze 3 times trying to run a game.

[Guest]

if you go to asus suite ->tool-> probe II : Alert log ; then if you scroll up when you were trying to play a game does it say anything or it's just normal?

 

i have to agree with priller your voltage setting don't seem right, try going and runing default setting i'll upload my voltages in a sec

http://oi62.tinypic.com/2vt9q4h.jpg

 

 

The thing is that my BIOS settings from the picture were set after I loaded the optimized settings. Those are the settings that my motherboard automatically enabled for everything. It's not that big of a deal since I changed my settings to what Priller recommended and my pc still freezes with games.

[Chris635]

do you have any of your cores unparked? On my system with c1e enabled and cores unparked I will get a system freeze.

[bob345]

i would just do a clean windows install. that seems to solve problems like these all the time for me.

[Guest]

i would just do a clean windows install. that seems to solve problems like these all the time for me.

 

 

Is a clean windows install different than a regular windows install because I already tried reinstalling windows twice and it did not solve the problem.

[Guest]

do you have any of your cores unparked? On my system with c1e enabled and cores unparked I will get a system freeze.

 

 

How would I tell if any of my cores are unparked?

[Chris635]

You can tell in task manager. But you would have to set up the cores for unparking, which obviously you haven't done, so that wouldn't be the problem. Do you have your ram at the correct voltage it is meant to run at, not what asus sets it at. For some reason asus's auto rules suck for amd boards. At least on mine it did.

[Guest]

UPDATE:

After changing the settings in my BIOS, the games that I attempt to run either freeze sooner than they did before or restart my pc entirely. Usually launching a game would not cause my system to automatically restart but now it occurs more often.

[Guest]

You can tell in task manager. But you would have to set up the cores for unparking, which obviously you haven't done, so that wouldn't be the problem. Do you have your ram at the correct voltage it is meant to run at, not what asus sets it at. For some reason asus's auto rules suck for amd boards. At least on mine it did.

 

 

Yes, my RAM is currently running at its correct voltage. I believe that ASUS originally set it at its correct voltage if not slighty below it.

[Chris635]

Okay try one thing for me. Leave your settings like priller said. Go back into the bios go under 1.Advanced, 2. Northbridge, 3. Memory configuration and disable ECC. This is for error correction ram. Most people don't buy this kind of ram and it will cause instability issues with ram that is not error correction.

[dimitriianghelov]

UPDATE:

After changing the settings in my BIOS, the games that I attempt to run either freeze sooner than they did before or restart my pc entirely. Usually launching a game would not cause my system to automatically restart but now it occurs more often.

i've been looking on google for similar cases : one person reported : "a cable preventing one of the fans of GPU to spin" , could you check if all the fans are working properly?

[bbqsauce]

i'm inclined to think this is software related.

probably dx or windows.

did you do a clean install of windows and drivers ?

[Guest]

Okay try one thing for me. Leave your settings like priller said. Go back into the bios go under 1.Advanced, 2. Northbridge, 3. Memory configuration and disable ECC. This is for error correction ram. Most people don't buy this kind of ram and it will cause instability issues with ram that is not error correction.

 

I disabled ECC and it still did not fix the problem.

[Guest]

i've been looking on google for similar cases : one person reported : "a cable preventing one of the fans of GPU to spin" , could you check if all the fans are working properly?

 

I double checked to make sure and all of my fans are working properly. There are no wires or anything else causing them not to spin.

[Guest]

i'm inclined to think this is software related.

probably dx or windows.

did you do a clean install of windows and drivers ?

 

I reinstalled windows and all my drivers twice since I started having this problem with my CPU.

[bbqsauce]

I reinstalled windows and all my drivers twice since I started having this problem with my CPU.

just to confirm, you wiped your hdd before doing the fresh install right?

[Guest]

When I tried launching one of my games (Thief), I had a heat monitoring program open as well as well as task manager. Once the game started, my CPU usage shot up to 100% and my computer froze. However, before I changed the settings in my BIOS, my CPU would never shoot up that high or raise its temperatures so significantly. If this is a problem with overheating, why would it not have done this before instead of showing minor usage and cool temperatures right before it froze.

[Chris635]

I believe this to still be a voltage problem. Move the voltage on cpu/nb 1.3 volts and try that. It will be fine. I'm at 1.34 on mine with llc set to extreme it goes 1.4.

[Guest]

just to confirm, you wiped your hdd before doing the fresh install right?

 

Yes, I reformatted my HD each time.

[bbqsauce]

When I tried launching one of my games (Thief), I had a heat monitoring program open as well as well as task manager. Once the game started, my CPU usage shot up to 100% and my computer froze. However, before I changed the settings in my BIOS, my CPU would never shoot up that high or raise its temperatures so significantly. If this is a problem with overheating, why would it not have done this before instead of showing minor usage and cool temperatures right before it froze.

maybe you could try using p95 and load 4-6 cores. see if you have heat issues or it could be the vrm overheating?

 

HWinfo64 will show your vrm temps