Changing to Intel because my amd board sucks?

[owlz]

Hey guys,

The problem I'm having is that whenever I try to overclock my cpu, the board stutters on boot and restarts a few times which adds a minute to boot time; the cpu is a 8350 and the motherboard is a gigabyte 990fxa-ud3.

My question is... is it worth upgrading to the 4670k performance wise, or should I just get a new board (if there isn't a fix)?

 

[S_I_N]

4670k is a decent jump in performance from what ya have. But you should be able to get what ya got to a moderate oc. You have the lower end of the 990 chipset from gigabyte so its power delivery isnt up to spec for that monster 8 core. If you want to keep the 8350 then I'd suggest a sabertooth or other higher end mobo. Its all about power and stability with those cpu's

 

[NeverBackDown]

Cheaper option would be to go for a high end AMD motherboard. Also make sure you have adequate cooling if you plan on overclocking.

 

[Dicehunter]

Personally I would just change the motherboard to either an Asus Sabertooth R2.0 or an Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z, 2 best AMD boards IMHO.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Personally I would just change the motherboard to either an Asus Sabertooth R2.0 or an Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z, 2 best AMD boards IMHO.

+1 on this. AMD boards comes down to "you get what you pay for", spending more will yield better OCs and stability.

 

[owlz]

The problem isnt the overclock, I can get 4.8GHz stable, it's this weird boot cycle thing when you disble the auto tuning in the bios that means the pc powers on for a few seconds, then restarts a couple of times before booting into windows. I have a pretty good watercooling loop which gives me 40C under load.

I mainly use my PC for gaming and compiling programs, I could sell the current board and cpu which would allow me to afford a 4670k and decent mobo (thinking the gigabyte G1 sniper atx) if it provides a worthy performance boost that is.

Edit: I paid £160 for this board in June so I expected decent performance!

 

[Zoot]

I paid £160 for this board in June so I expected decent performance!

To be honest nobody will guarantee overclocked performance, what they'll guarantee is stock performance. If you're getting weirdness at stock that you shouldn't be getting, then Gigabyte are who to contact.

You're on your own when overclocking, as always your mileage will vary.

 

[owlz]

To be honest nobody will guarantee overclocked performance, what they'll guarantee is stock performance. If you're getting weirdness at stock that you shouldn't be getting, then Gigabyte are who to contact.

You're on your own when overclocking, as always your mileage will vary.

It's not when overclocking, it's when the auto clock is turned off, it happens when it's at stock.

 

[barnsley]

It's not when overclocking, it's when the auto clock is turned off, it happens when it's at stock.

You got AMD Overdrive? Check the settings on that if you have it because it could be causing all kind of crap.

 

[owlz]

You got AMD Overdrive? Check the settings on that if you have it because it could be causing all kind of crap.

Nah, it wouldn't be from that anyway because it doesn't have chance to load software before it reboots again

 

[S_I_N]

trust me do some google search research and you'll see while you may think its stable those reboots is the board trying to throttle it and failing. The UD3 has some of the biggest failure rates using 8 core cpu's because it just cant handle the load of an 8 core cpu as well as some of the higher end boards. Basically those reboots are the board trying to use less volts than it needs it fails so it reboots trying a bit more fails and rinse and repeat til it finds what it needs, this might be in part cause a setting you have just isnt what it needs to start with. I cant be 100% sure cause I dont know your settings.

 

[Tripp]

trust me do some google search research and you'll see while you may think its stable those reboots is the board trying to throttle it and failing. The ud3 has some of the biggest failure rates using 8 core cpu's because it just cant handle the load of an 8 core cpu as well as some of the higher end boards. Basically those reboots are the board trying to use less volts than it needs it fails so it reboots trying a bit more fails and rinse and repeat til it finds what it needs, this might be in part cause a setting you have just isnt what it needs to start with. I cant be 100% sure cause i dont know your settings.

+1 to this

 

[S_I_N]

I should say my comments are geared towards the UD3 when overclocking. I haven't looked at data for it running stock.

 

[Zoot]

It's not when overclocking, it's when the auto clock is turned off, it happens when it's at stock.

Have you the latest BIOS installed?

I actually have the UD5 variant of the board with an FX-8350 aswell, I'm not much of an overclocker but I've fiddled a bit with overclocking and undervolting and the board has been solid in both cases.

Since throttling has come up, to rule it out, I'd put everything on default (stock) and stress the CPU via AMD Overdrive, if you're to get throttling, you'll get it there.

 

[NickOmega]

It's an odd problem tbf.

I have an FX6300 and the UD3 board, mine was doing that little boot loop, powering on then off before actually starting.
I removed everything from the case and rebuilt it, not changing anything in the BIOS and now it doesn't do it anymore.