So recently a friend of mine brought to me an interesting bit of modern history to see if I could fix it up and benchmark the performance. Immediately I was intrigued to see that it was being cooled by a corsair hydro series H100i AIO. He had told me that he was doing some extreme overclocking on the CPU which is the Amd Fx-9590. for the base it is rocking the ASRock 990fx extreme 9 motherboard, as for the rest of the components it has 16gb of corsair vengeance ddr3 ram, and two duel gtx 970's, powered by a 1000 watt corsair psu and encased in the corsair obsidian series 750d. I will keep you updated on this project as it goes.
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| System Name | DevKit |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 3600 ↗4.0GHz |
| Motherboard | Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus WiFi |
| Cooling | Koolance CPU-300-H06, Koolance GPU-180-L06, SC800 Pump |
| Memory | 4x16GB Ballistix 3200MT/s ↗3800 |
| Video Card(s) | PowerColor RX 580 Red Devil 8GB ↗1380MHz ↘1105mV, PowerColor RX 7900 XT Hellhound 20GB |
| Storage | 240GB Corsair MP510, 120GB KingDian S280 |
| Display(s) | Nixeus VUE-24 (1080p144) |
| Case | Koolance PC2-601BLW + Koolance EHX1020CUV Radiator Kit |
| Audio Device(s) | Oculus CV-1 |
| Power Supply | Antec Earthwatts EA-750 Semi-Modular |
| Mouse | Easterntimes Tech X-08, Zelotes C-12 |
| Keyboard | Logitech 106-key, Romoral 15-Key Macro, Royal Kludge RK84 |
| VR HMD | Oculus CV-1 |
| Software | Windows 10 Pro Workstation, VMware Workstation 16 Pro, MS SQL Server 2016, Fan Control v120, Blender |
| Benchmark Scores | Cinebench R15: 1590cb Cinebench R20: 3530cb (7.83x451cb) CPU-Z 17.01.64: 481.2/3896.8 VRMark: 8009 |
The 990FX boards are high performance unobtanium so first of all, good job getting access to one. You're probably all set.
FX-9000 is not AM3 but AM3+ which doesn't sound like a difference until you have access to the boards that support it.
The FX-9590 is the premiere space heater that needs the type of water cooling I built for the FX-8370, now on a R5 3600.
If the Vengeance kit is too slow, some Ballistix Tactical or G.Skill Sniper kits are an outstanding combo but good luck finding them.
The OC options of the CPU and board should be agreeable for F3-2400C11 and similar. I chose a F3-2133C10 kit which also works great.
The challenge will be almost entirely related to keeping the 990FX chipset in check. At 1080p144 desktop or 2K90 VR expect runaway temps.
I paired the 8370 to a few 970 boards and 4.5-4.6GHz seems to be the upper clockspeed limit and there's a difference between boards.
It's faster than a stock 9590 but that means almost nothing between 4-5GHz.
I don't have experience with any GTX900 setup but it's already behind my RX580 and that's bad.
If SLI is the goal, a pair of 1080Ti cards might be more suited but I haven't seen any of those in forever.
For any mainstream desktop or VR gaming it should be pretty close to ideal. It's pretty exciting. Good luck.
FX-9000 is not AM3 but AM3+ which doesn't sound like a difference until you have access to the boards that support it.
The FX-9590 is the premiere space heater that needs the type of water cooling I built for the FX-8370, now on a R5 3600.
If the Vengeance kit is too slow, some Ballistix Tactical or G.Skill Sniper kits are an outstanding combo but good luck finding them.
The OC options of the CPU and board should be agreeable for F3-2400C11 and similar. I chose a F3-2133C10 kit which also works great.
The challenge will be almost entirely related to keeping the 990FX chipset in check. At 1080p144 desktop or 2K90 VR expect runaway temps.
I paired the 8370 to a few 970 boards and 4.5-4.6GHz seems to be the upper clockspeed limit and there's a difference between boards.
It's faster than a stock 9590 but that means almost nothing between 4-5GHz.
I don't have experience with any GTX900 setup but it's already behind my RX580 and that's bad.
If SLI is the goal, a pair of 1080Ti cards might be more suited but I haven't seen any of those in forever.
For any mainstream desktop or VR gaming it should be pretty close to ideal. It's pretty exciting. Good luck.