I'm trying to figure out a solution to having a cheap mobo and running an FX-8350 inside of it - I read it's my VRM's that's overheating (I have an r9 380 4GB) so I bought copper heat sinks and attached them to the mosfets - still gave me FPS drops
I'm using HWmonitor to check my temps - I think my VRM's start to cause throttling at 54 celcius
I have a fan pointing on my motherboard and it's still not really doing the trick
To find a motherboard with good VRMs it costs like $100+ so I'm really not trying to buy a new one
Anyone know a solution?

54 shouldnt cause throttling at all

then shiiit man i feel like someone fkd it up at one pt and now it does that at 54

Bad news

Dig deeper to what’s really causing the issue? Unstable overclock or something?

no OC done

Asus M5A78L-M LX PLUS is the mobo

I hear it has bad VRM problems =/ even after applying heatsinks to the individual mosfets i still get throttling (i htink its throttling)

Are you able to disable cores in the bios? It’s been a while since I’ve played with that platform.

i might be but tbh really last resort if i have to
would suck to get bad frames in Overwatch just so I can get good frames in csgo

Did you ever take the CPU voltage off AUTO and manually set it yourself? I ask because on my FX 8350 I had to do that, and I'm running a 220W max. motherboard.

You have a 125W max. motherboard. I would definitely manually set your CPU voltage in the BIOS. The FX 8350 ia a 125W CPU.




/e The lowest I could get my CPU voltage was 1.275v

This post was edited by Ghot on Jun 21 2019 08:42pm

to get 125w what voltage do i need to set it at?