Dear all,
I have a GA-990FXA-D3 motherboard and recently upgraded from Phenom II x4 955 (OC 4.2GHz, which worked perfectly for 3 years) to a FX9370.
I know the 9370 is officially not supported so I changed the clockspeed to FX8350 specs (and even 8320 specs), however it still does not run stable.
The bios is updated to F8.
On normal/auto CPU voltage in the bios it says 1.5375V, which is probably too high for the VRM's, eventhough I placed a big heatsink and two 50mm fans.
I have changed the voltage to lower values (from 1.40 to 1.525) but the computer still shuts down when trying to run e.g. Crysis 3.
It seemed to be more stable at higher voltages, but cannot say for sure.
Unfortunately I cannot find any good logging programs to identify the rootcause of the shutdowns (motherboard + cpu temperatures).
Offcourse it would be best to change back to a less hungry processor or better motherboard, but as I already have these components I would like to run with them (even with lower clockspeed, I got this 9370 for the price of a 8320).
I think other components are not relevant as they worked with the phenom without any problems.
Please advise.
