Why The FIRST 5GHz CPU Almost Failed - AMD FX-9590 Revisited! 

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The 9590 was the first CPU I ever had in a custom build... Winter was cosy. Summer was literal hell.

Me: *install fx9590 with r9 fury x to pc *Electric bill has left the chat *Heater has left the chat *House fire has enter the chat

I miss my 9590 😕 It was the best heater I ever owned.

I'm still using this CPU and motherboard, to develop a game in UE4. I can't describe how much I look forward to my next upgrade. The temperature in here is tropical, regardless of weather. Plasma arcs run cooler than the FX. I won't miss it.

I still wished we could've seen a "FX 8550" (Steamroller) & "FX 8750" (Excavator)

My FX-9590 is still running fine as my backup computer. I upgraded to a Zen2 when the FX-9590 was starting to slow down. I am surprised you guys aren't using a TUF Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 motherboard. I had issues using the first generation of the TUF Sabertooth.

AMD Ryzen be like : I will take it from here

I still have my old FX-9590, I upgraded to the R5 3600 a few months back though.

Still (stuck) on a FX-8350. 4.7GHz all-core on air. Was going to build a SFF PC with a 1600AF, then Corona came knocking.

Lol sounds like an exactly like the situation Intel is finding themselves in now Edit: lol I make a joke about how Intel is like AMD back then and all of a sudden I became an AMD shill. My 8600k begs to differ

I remember reading the articles about this CPU and getting really upset. I had just bought a pre-built with an FX 8120 in it, but I really had no idea what I was doing back then, and I was happy to have a computer that could run games at all.

Rocked a FX- 8350 @5GHZ 1.48v since launch to December 2019. Man, the memories I got with this and how cheap it was... for my loads, it was perfect and didnt need an upgrade but wanted to switch to itx. And I was using the Sabertooh 990fx 2.0 as well. It goes to my parents now working as it was 6 years ago.

Intel now is like AMD back then AMD back then still using old node and pushing clockspeed regardless of heat just to stay competitive, but still drop prices in the end 15:30 lifecycle

It would have been a fun trip to go through all those generations of hardware. My personal all time favourite.. x58. Loved that platform.

I personally love hardware from around 2010-2015, there's tonnes of quality and potential out there, and you can sometimes find absolute bargains

I was only like 12 when all this stuff was released and I knew nothing about computers or anything and yet I feel nostalgic watching this.

220 watts for 5 Ghz doesn’t seem all that unusual. Doesn’t the i9-9900K also use a lot of juice at 5 Ghz. Thank you for bringing a blast from the past back to us.

I used to love my FX 8350,great stability and a good overclocker. I thought the 9590 was basically just a factory overclocked 8350

Been running a 9590 at stock speeds since 2015, picked this thing up for 200 bucks without a cooler on newegg...this thing still cranks 70+ frames in all my games with a gtx 970 (mid to high settings). Had to replace my motherboard once due to a thermal overload on the VRM's but it's been chugging along ever since. Team RED

Had one of these. Swapped it for an FX-8350 which did the full 5GHz on all cores on a lower voltage than the FX-9590 on it's 4.7 all core boost

The entire FX line has left us with the absolute best OC learning experience. A friend comes over and asks, "How do you overclock?" For the foreseeable future what other processor do you go to? I mean its okay to "kill" these processors but it gives you so much flexibility and honestly plenty of "forgiveness" if you accidentally toss a bit more voltage than you wanted to at it. At least FX provided us that!

I remember buying the 8350 black edition, since my mindset was "well it's much cheaper than intel's CPU's, and it has 8 cores! woow!" ...If only I checked out gaming benchmarks, userbenchmark, etc.. man that thing got beaten by a second hand i7 2500k that I "upgraded" to xD Then went to a 4790k second hand which dominated both of those CPU's, and gave me a massive jump in FPS. Now running a ryzen 5 3600x just for longevity, as I had no idea how long the 4790k would last me. Gotta say though, this thing was running at a horribly high voltage out of the box, and ran at like 50 degrees at idle.. Better after I went through with aisuite's easy tune, but the stock heatsink is still pretty loud. Couldn't use my AIO from the 4790k (might've been a good thing though, as it was like 5-6 years old), so still debating what cooler to get :p Definitely going with air cooler now, as they'll basically last forever, but can't decide

Yup, still have one of these fx-9590 220 watt chips, paired with an msi 990fxa gaming board. I don't use it anymore it's been retired. Built an am4 platform. A major problem was when it boosted over 4.7 ghz., windows could freeze. Found out later you could disable the boost in the bios that would keep it stable.

Back when AMD has no chance of competing with Intel and got sued for misrepresenting the number of cores their CPUs had 😆

Is it ironic that I'm watching this video on my OC 9590? I'm using a Sabertooth 990fx gen 3 R2.0 with an NVME drive in a pcie 3.0 slot. Getting 3200mb/s HD transfer rate, 5ghz cpu OC using an Noctua D14 air cooler and idling at 34c. Still playing latest games with good framerates :D. Kinda fun pushing old tech. great video!

Still having and loving my FX 6300 at 4.6Ghz OC

I am sitting in front of my beloved FX-9590 PC with Asus Crosshair X Formula Z, R9 Fury X, and Sound Blaster Z PCI-E sound. I have moved the old Vishera down here to the basement, but I still log on at least once a week. After 6 years of faithful service, with no problems in all that time, I consider this rig to be one of the best I have ever built. I love my Ryzen 7 1800X PC with Vega 64 Liquid up in the livingroom, but this old warhorse will always have a special place in my heart.

I had fx six core processor not overclocked and for that time and money it was well worth it!

The naming of these chips where the best marketing success ever! Still rocking a "Piledriver" FX6300 @ 4.4Ghz in 2020!

The first 5ghz CPU did fail, it had the ipc of a core2 processor when 2nd generation i7 cpus were out and had more than 30% more IPC... 3ghz 2600k could outperform the fx chips running at 5ghz.

My FX9590 still is an ideal heater in the office. Combined with a GTX1080 it still runs most of the games without problems, but I hope Ryzen 4th gen and RTX 3rd gen will be there soon for my upgrade

Hardware Canucks: 7:15 "I WAS using this for a long, long time" Me: ... still using this motherboard to run the FX 8350 @5GHz Also me: Has a fire extinguisher beside my computer at all times.

My first custom pc had a 9590 with 290x 8gb and a custom water-cooling loop. Had it for like 7 years and it was going strong. I still feel nostalgic about that pc from time to time.

AMD really went from rags to riches in the last few years.

Clock speed doesn't necessarily matter. It's all about how much the processor can get done in each load.

Yes, I'm really interested in classic computing, just to see how back can you go.

I'm still using this one's little brother the FX-4390 overclocked with only air to 4.7GHz for years and it's been completely stable the whole time. Excellent workhorse that's aged well.

My fx-6300 still runs great at 5Ghz

I have built and used 3 of the 9590 processors. I found that getting a motherboard that supported it harder than the actual processor and cooling it.. My best one was with a 240 water cooler. Ran nice and had great gaming with it.

I used to work at mid sized computer shop in Germany and one a customer showed up whom complained about his pc randomly shutting down. It was an Amd fx 8000 series cpu and first I began with stressing it. It turned off after some while and I noticed it got really hot. So I swapped the case fan with a silent wing cooler and that remedied the issue. The guy was very thankful and I later received a letter from him, in which he thanked me and slipped a cheeky 20€ in for me. One of my favorite work stories still to this day :)

Well if you really wanted to start a house fire GTX 480 would of been the icing on the cake lol. Great video good to see how far amds has come

I had one of those. Drove me nuts with the heat and an AIO noise at home. Ended up at my old work space powering the ESXi server with a build farm and a staging server and some other light VMs. Downclocked to 4.5GHz. Probably still crunching numbers out there. One of the most memorable mistakes in my life =)

ohh now I know the 'Bulldozer" chip I have been hearing about a lot of times.

R9 and FX: hi fan Fan: im gonna have a really bad time

I haven't updated in the longest time still running an fx 8120 have never had problems, but now with win 10 things are starting to slow down..

I always enjoy watching hardware that are "old but not necessarily obsolete". I have a Xeon E5-2690 and my brother upgraded from an Athlon II x4 640(a hand-me-down build from me, before upgrading to an i7-4790) to an FX 8300. I OCed it to a decent 3.8ghz, I could do 4.0ghz but got limited due to the DeepCool Ice Blade 100 cooler. I've always wondered why the FX 8300 had a lower Max TJunction. Your video explained why, thanks!

this sounds like intel to day i had a AMD FX-9590 you get a better score from a ryzen 5 2400g

"Back then AMD didn't have simultaneous multithreading" ... Yes they did. It was even slightly more efficient than Intels version. They just preferred to call each thread a core to look like much better value-per-money than they were. The FX-9590 realistically speaking was a Quadcore with Multithreading.

Classic computing makes me think your going to pull out an Altair 8800, Commodore 64, or IBM 7090.

from what i was told at the time, the 8350 was the same as the 9590 with a higher clock. doing a ton of overclocking on a 8350 the first thing that caught my attention was hitting stability. a 4.7GH was far more simple to stabilize compared to a 5GH clock, getting a 5GH required a lot of modifications and still had low stability running high loads. The temperature issue makes sense since i always had mine set to 60c and constant temperature monitoring to watch for instabilities. but generally 4.3-4.5 was simple, 4.5-4.7 was where it started to lose stability, and 4.7-5.0 was basically walking on thin ice waiting for it to crash. there was a time where i had a stable 4.8 running but i tweaked some things in it and ended up just deleting the profile because it wasn't worth running.

I haven't been keeping up with computers as much for the past 8 years. At first I thought the FX series was to the Ryzen like how the Celeron was to the Pentium.

I was running SETI@home when it was still up. 9590 is my CPU, and my GPU is the old R9-290. I ran 3 of them of course why not. Then I had to find solution to keep it cool. My cPu has its own AIO cooler at a 360mm block from Cooler Master. NZXT solved my R9-290 problem by having a Hybrid cooling solution. That ultimate result in a open case chassis design. It is a heater and computer but I love those 2 years. I know my PSu is seasonic 1250W Gold.

When you realize that multi-threading is having twice the amount of threads, which you didn't know because you are growing up in a world where that is normal.

Dudes! Great Video! I really enjoyed it ... But you completly missed the most important point: Bulldozer-architecture had TWO CPU-cores sharing one FPU (Floating Point calculation Unit) . Since audio, video and game-technology relies on FPU-caclulations, there´s the problem. An X-core AMD Bulldozer of those times, was basically an X/2-core regarding it´s FPU-processing-power. Meaning: 8 cores with integer calculation BUT only 4 cores for FPU-calculations.

I've seen this processor 9590 5000Mhz was overclocked and the ASUS 990FX Sabertooth caught on fire.. That scared me man it was scary to see & bad.. It really went up and the amount of snapping and fire just shocked me.. so be safe people don't come home to well ashes and no home !!!

"Blast from the past" Me still using one :(

I recently switched from FX 8320E to Ryzen 7 3700X. 8320E was 4 years old and from day 1 it was OCed @ 4GHZ with Xigmatek Gaya cooler.

Near equal results in "RainDbow Six Siege" - care to elaborate? Your ram was clocked at 1333mhz?!?! The R 2.0 can handle 2133mhz! Try the 8370e!

Still using this exact CPU and MB combo to this day in my gaming rig.. had it custom built in 2015 and I remember everyone being envious at the time that I managed to get hold of what was considered the fastest consumer CPU. Never really had major issues with temps, I run a Corsair AiO and it's been fine. I coupled it with a GTX 970 and considering the whole system falls way below current minimum standards it's comfortably able to run just about any new game at low to mid settings, some older ones on high or even ultra. In the process of planning a new build now, but this has been a tremendous machine for 6+ years and will be sadly missed when I eventually retire it! Great video, even if I am a year late lol!

11:36 mm yess finally raindbow

Finding a Decent 9590 today is so hard, almost all of them were abused pretty badly as they were really popular with overclockers.

""Have you hertz from canucks?""

Hi guys, love your channel!! I'm from Brazil and my first CPU, that I bought were a I7 2600k, later make a update to my current CPU, the I7 3770k. My little brother bought my old I7 2600k, by the same time my father was planning to buy a new budget PC and by that time the FX-8350 were super cheap and he uses up to day. Here in Brazil, PC parts are getting expensive ever year that passes. So I watch you guys and dream with my next PC upgrade.

Back around 2015 a guy on Craigslist wanted to trade his gaming rig for a new PS4. It had a 240 AIO cooled FX9590, Asus 990FX mobo, 8GB of RipJaws, an R9 290, and a 850W Thermaltake Smart Series PSU, all inside a Corsair C70 case. I took him down to GameStop and bought him his PS4.

On the topic of throwback AMD...you guys should revisit the 7970/R9 280x and it's longevity. I'd love to see how it compares to a GTX780 considering it went toe to toe with a 680/770 during it's hayday.

Lower power draw than an Intel i9......

I had a build with an FX-8350 all-core overclocked to 4.8 GHz on an Asus 990FX board cooled by a Corsair H105 and with two R9 290 GPUs in Crossfire and 16Gb of 2133Hz DDR3 RAM. The Windows log-in name for this system was "Spaceheater" for obvious reasons. BTW, our legal system says these CPUs didn't just lack SMT, they also had just four cores and not eight. I still have that FX-8350 on that board in a stand-by machine with an RX-580, and it still gets the job done at 1080p. These days, when I fire it up, I run it at stock speed because I want it to last forever.

maybe if some crazy person could re-optimize it to actually be good

I owned an FX-9370 for maybe 6 years. Only reason I had it was because I wasn't able to buy the parts for my system myself at the time. I remember an Ivy Bridge Xeon I was looking into at the time was probably $10CAD more expensive than the $210 the FX-9370 came out to, but was more or less an i7 with no graphics on board. That FX-9370 gave me so many problems. It killed the first motherboard it was installed in, because the person who helped me buy parts refused to believe that it would require a 990FX chipset. First all the USB ports basically died, so I sold that motherboard for cheap to a friend who didn't care. A few months later the VRMs died and the board was toasted - he was running something like an FX-6300 in it. It killed a Corsair H80i in 6 months. After 3 years one of the original Corsair fans included with the first pump that I had still been using literally fell apart pushing 90% because of the heat of the chip on idle. It would hit 60 degrees Celsius before I could enter the BIOS in it's second motherboard (a Crosshair V Formula Z) with a brand second new H80i. It was incredibly painful to use - after the first 2 years I ended up permanently underclocking it to 3.0GHz, reducing it's voltage down to 1.38v or so, and disabling 2 of it's 8 cores. It would still run hot when idling. Everyone I talked to asked how it could possibly run hotter than an FX-6 series when I was running it slower. It wasn't stable below the voltage I managed to get it to. It frequently reached 95 degrees C occasionally when doing nearly nothing in Windows. I had it shut down while running games nowhere near demanding more than once, because of heat. It was so slow to use that an SSD with advertised with over 500mbps r/w had no impact on boot speed over a mechanical 7200RPM hard drive. My case had 3 Enermax 120mm fans which I still use in my new system, a Noctua Industrial 140mm, and 2 more Enermax 120mm fans the very much worn out sets of Corsair fans I have - airflow was not an issue. Before I ended up permanently underclocking it, I had done a test to run the system at 1GHz, 1 core and as low of a voltage I could achieve to boot the system with (not even bothering with stability). It *still* ran hot. I have never been so glad to replace anything I've ever used like how I did when I was free from that FX a few months ago. The last system I was using before I assembled the FX system was a low profile OEM system running Sandy Bridge Pentium G with an Nvidia 210 added to it, and I swear that Pentium G pushed better than my FX-9370 ever did.

Bruh im still using a Amd FX8325

Interesting to find people calling this old. I am watching this video on my main computer which runs the Piledriver Core FX-8350. It is as stable and fast as it has always been and still keeps up on modern games without a problem. I cool it with the Cooler Master Evo 212, but I replaced the fans with dual Noctua push and pull 80mm fans, and I still run an idle temp of around 15 Celcius, a normal load temp of 25-30 Celcius and a high load (gaming and video rendering) of 45-50 Celcius. Of course the 8350 also has a TDP of only 125. I honestly still love my build, and the only computer I have used that gives me cause to want to upgrade is a Ryzen 9.

Don't forget to mention Intel's scheming that brought AMD so low in those times.

just paid $80NZD for one of these processors for a %57.5 performance improvement over what I currently have. Its a dyeing platform, but this should help me get another year or so out of what is nearly a 8yr investment.... feels good considering I didn't even know the 9590 existed :)

The IBM PowerPC had >5GHz versions before anything from AMD

My old computer was a Crosshair-V Formula-Z motherboard, FX-8350 black edition at 5GHz With Four Sapphire HD-7950 graphics cards, all crossfired. It was insane how hot my room used to be. I switched to AM4 with a Ryzen 7 2700X, and two XFX R9 390 graphics cards. I kinda miss how warm my room used to be. I live in Oregon where summers get around ~75 Fahrenheit, it was almost unplayable during summertime because of how hot my room was.

8:48 Yes its hot to the touch. You are STRESS TESTING! You want to point me to the same level processor an it not be hot to the touch in stress test? Ugh.

ran up to bf4 and the whole modern warfare saga with a fx6300 8gb ram and 750 ti... on an asus M5A78L-M LX. i'd say that, for the price, it aged fairly well... and still running.

I love these PC hardware retrospective type of videos. Very entertaining and informative. Thanks!

i had one back in the day. bought it new off newegg for $100 and it sat in an asus sabertooth motherboard. it was cooled by a corsair 240mm aio and hit a stable 5.5ghz overclock. used it until i got my i7 8700k machine built. good strong chip still decent today for most tasks

I still have a full functioning, liquid cooled (custom) on a gigabyte 990fxGaming board with a built in m.2 on the board rated at 20gb. Now it is my back up computer to my x570.

I bought my Ryzen 7 1700X very close to the original launch in 2017, and still have it now.

Glad I watched this and glad you guys took the time to do this. I remember looking at the 9590 as an option and eventually concluding it wouldn't be worth it to me.

I built an fx9590 rig with 2 R9-390's in crossfire. Couldn't play shit on it but I got a magnificent tan.

Please continue on with the Classic Hardware series.. would love to see some early GPUs, Radeon 9700 or 7970, Nvidia 580 or if possible 3Dfx

I had a FX 8350 that I bought day one on an AM3+ Asus Tuf motherboard. I ran it daily at 4.7-4.8 and could easily get into Windows and perform benchmarks at 5Ghz np. I still have my Noctua NH D14 on my 3950X and that HSF gets the fkn job done. I use Arctic Silver thermal paste. Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Still using an FX8350 @ 4.5Ghz (w/ NH-D15) + R9 290 @ 1100Mhz core / 1500Mhz memory (w/ Raijintek Morpheus II + 2 x NF-A12x25). It's not that bad for 1080p gaming and general productivity, but I do hope to upgrade with hardware that's from this decade.

This chip brought me back into Cutom PCs, after a 10 year break from my Q6600 build, I found a used 9590 w/crosshair board.. I donated that rig to a family friend.

We're all getting older this will be fun to look at cheers

I first got into PC gaming and building about 12 years ago and the fondest memories I have are of the Phenom II X2 555 which was a dual core CPU but you could activate the other 2 cores in the BIOS and some were stable as full quad cores. I was finally able to get mine stable with 3 cores running at 3.9 GHz. If you guys have one of those lying around I'd love to see how your chip compared. I also have fond memories of overclocking with my Powercolor HD4850, running the Crysis benchmark over and over again trying to get over 40 fps regularly at high settings on my 17" Sony CRT monitor at 1024x720 LOL.

When I worked at fry's, we only ever had two in stock and I've never seen anyone by it

I still use my amd fx 9590 gaming pc today, it's still able to play all modern games in high graphics.

I was running an old fx 6250 black edition all the way up to this past christmas when I finally upgraded to the 3600, and I was still able to play the latest AAA games at 1080p at high settings. Paired that cpu with a 550 4 Gb gpu

Kicking it with an x79 deluxe and 4960x rn, man they're old but they still party!

This is and always will be a legend. I am writing this from a pc with an FX-9590 @ 1.35v @ 4.7 Ghz (Yes, its a golden chip) NB @2.6Ghz . Paired with a RX 570 and 16 GB 2133 DDR3 Ram and a Sabertooth 990FX mainboard, it STILL is more than enough for my needs. 60 FPS at least in anything I play, definitely more possible, but i have VSync on everywhere. In productivity like Premiere cc 2019 it is faster than a 4770k and roughly on par with a 4770k @ 4.4 Ghz. It does show its age, but stays relevant due to the influx of software that can use 8 cores. Also I dont know whats going on with your idle power consumption. My system idles at around 85 watts. This is confirmed by Anandtechs test of the 9590. 150w is way too high. Probably you did disable all eneergy saving features for the OC, which is a relic from the past when EIST etc. were new. You can leave that all enabled and work with a voltage offset.

i currently still use my pc thats a fx 9590 with the same motherboard, im finally going to be upgrading but this cpu is a nightmare, the only way i ever got it stable was to disable turbo and underclock slightly. it just randomly crashs even though the temps are low. im gonna be so glad to have a new build soon

I managed to recently get a free gaming rig with an AMD FX-9590 and two Radeon R9 200 series GPUs, 16GB DDR3-2133 RAM, 128GB SSD with 1TB HDD, all with a 1200W PSU.

If I remember right, at release the 9590 had to be purchased as a bundle with a cooler and motherboard. Basically, it was an 8350 cranked to the max, and only the highest-end motherboards were safe to use it on (again, if I'm remembering it right).

Hardware Canucks, cleaning: MMM LETS MAKE A VIDEO EVEN THOUGH WE SHOULD BE MOVING

Because of that processor I learned how to liquid cool, very well. Using a 95,000 watt btu liquid to air heat exchanger to cool my x570 set up. everything in my rig runs at 19c.