ok.. few things..
i set everything back to stock, basically giving up.
😞 then i started getting weird windows messages saying that "system performance is low..." i had nothing OC'd... GPU, CPU, RAM.. nothing... so.. i decided to see if it was some weird driver issue ( is that even possible??? ) and i reformatted the drive... deleted my back ups and started afresh.
Brand new install of windows 7 professional and trying to see if i can get things sorted...
first question.... is it possible that my RAM is causing the issue??? i have 32 GB ( 4 x 8GB ) 2133 G.Skill 9-11-11-31 i do see this particular ram isn't on the mem list for the M5A99FX PRO R2.0 nor is it on the list for the New MB i just got today the Crosshair V Formula Z.
second question ... what else could be causing "system performance low" errors???
my 8350 is only 45 days old, and hasn't been pushed... i can't see that being bad... ???? I will say that prime95 always has core 6 as the one that fails under the test.. even at stock settings...
third question... if my RAM is ok to use, should i be going into bios and manually setting it the way i have been? i have been setting it to 2133 with the latency settings inputted to 9 11 11 31 instead of the numbers it posts.
im really trying to get a handle on what's going on here.
while i know it might be a waste of time, i would really like to figure out what's wrong with my current setup BEFORE i swap to the C5Fz. im kinda particular like that.
any input will be appreciated.. thanks