Post Your Overclock!

stormy13 said:

Gigabyte aren't the only ones that did it; Asus, MSI, etc all did the same thing. Likely reason being it was a quick and easy (some might say dirty) way to get rid of extra stock of the older chipsets.

Not only old chipsets. I bought an ASRock 990FX Fata1ity Pro board last Novemeber from Newegg, exchanged it for another, and have RMA-ed it 3 times now to ASRock. Og course it is my hardware at fault according to "John" from ASRock. Odd the same symptoms on all 4 different boards.
It may be AMD's new 990FX chip set but they aren't saying anything and ASRock won't honor its warranty since "it's my hardware" and they check each board for defects before it is returned. I keep getting someone else's bad board.
Four boards in total.

If you get a turn around in a week, consider your self extremely fortunate. It is normally 3-5 weeks at least. And don't expect a refund.

Also, if the board was purchased less than 30 days ago, you can do it through ebuyer probably and have a much easier and faster time.

This youtube video says if you are using gigabyte you need Bios f6f

take a look How to fix the throttling/downclocking issue for AMD Bulldozer on the Gigabyte 990FX mobos - YouTube

Another one http://www.overclock.net/t/1197633/a...mp-with-offset

ganjiry said:

Britton30 said:

stormy13 said:

Gigabyte aren't the only ones that did it; Asus, MSI, etc all did the same thing. Likely reason being it was a quick and easy (some might say dirty) way to get rid of extra stock of the older chipsets.

Not only old chipsets. I bought an ASRock 990FX Fata1ity Pro board last Novemeber from Newegg, exchanged it for another, and have RMA-ed it 3 times now to ASRock. Og course it is my hardware at fault according to "John" from ASRock. Odd the same symptoms on all 4 different boards.
It may be AMD's new 990FX chip set but they aren't saying anything and ASRock won't honor its warranty since "it's my hardware" and they check each board for defects before it is returned. I keep getting someone else's bad board.
Four boards in total.

its wrong mate they should'nt be allowed to get away with it. if i had not been speaking with you folks i could of just killed the board and cpu.

essenbe said:

If you get a turn around in a week, consider your self extremely fortunate. It is normally 3-5 weeks at least. And don't expect a refund.

Also, if the board was purchased less than 30 days ago, you can do it through ebuyer probably and have a much easier and faster time.

nah im not expecting anythin quick. i know how long this sh** can take. ive known peeps wait months for a psu from corsair. unluckily i bought the board 10 months ago so i dont know how they plan on sorting it untill i speak to them on the phone.

Arhh didnt realise you had it 10 months, I am guessing it will be a tricky process.

Britton30 said:

stormy13 said:

Gigabyte aren't the only ones that did it; Asus, MSI, etc all did the same thing. Likely reason being it was a quick and easy (some might say dirty) way to get rid of extra stock of the older chipsets.

Not only old chipsets. I bought an ASRock 990FX Fata1ity Pro board last Novemeber from Newegg, exchanged it for another, and have RMA-ed it 3 times now to ASRock. Og course it is my hardware at fault according to "John" from ASRock. Odd the same symptoms on all 4 different boards.
It may be AMD's new 990FX chip set but they aren't saying anything and ASRock won't honor its warranty since "it's my hardware" and they check each board for defects before it is returned. I keep getting someone else's bad board.
Four boards in total.

My Brand was on that list but i guess i got lucky MSI 990fx GD-80

Solarstarshines said:

This youtube video says if you are using gigabyte you need Bios f6f

take a look How to fix the throttling/downclocking issue for AMD Bulldozer on the Gigabyte 990FX mobos - YouTube

Another one http://www.overclock.net/t/1197633/a...mp-with-offset

cheers chap. ive just checked the vid and will check the bios out. the overclock forums is down for tuning at the min but i'll check it again.
thanks :)

i dont think that bios is for my board chap. ive looked everywhere n cant find it referenced to any other chipset than the 900.
my heads boxed now lol so spliffs n bed me finks goodnight folkks
thanks again

Here is an overclock I did earlier, I think coretemp was having a bit of a mad moment as there is no way the CPU was using 480 Watts

Temps are a bit high, but at 5.1ghz on air under IBT they are not bad.

That's a great result Paul