Hi -- just a quick comment -- the 3200 MHz speed might apply to systems with 1 to 4 DIMM sticks (which is most). Mine uses 8 DIMM sticks and I remember after a lot of checking around back then that it had to run slower to conform to what AMD conside...
The way to insure that aggressive BIOS voltage and overclocking won't damage your 3990x is to manually set the SOC voltage. I used 1.15V You also have to set the DIMM speeds to 2666 MHz -- what the 3990x is rated for. You'll have to crawl through ...
Hi, signed up to this forum to give you a reply... I've had a Zenith II Extreme Alpha burn out 5 (yes, five) 3990x CPUs... And, AMD warrantied *none* of them (that's right -- zero). The issue with the stock BIOS settings are that they boost the SO...