...done better to not resurrect a corpse. New threads bring in more people for viewing and that can mean more help. Not always but seems most often more people look at newer threads. They (new threads) are often just easier to recognize.
By the way before "I" forget > Welcome to OCF...
I know you have already been posting back and forth and I nearly forgot to say the Welcome.
Onward: The Sabertooth BIOS is pretty typical when it comes to new UEFIs. You have the Main, Overclocking, Advanced, Monitor, Boot, and Tools tab. What is unique to Asus is their
EZ Mode. Here a user that does not completely understand how their system works, can still overclock and change some advanced settings with ease. EZ Mode shows some of the more important voltages, temperatures, and fans on your motherboard. It also provides three “overclocking” settings. You have the power saving, normal, and the overclocked profile. You can also easily change the boot order by dragging the disks to the position you want.
Above copied from OCF review of Sabertooth 990FX motherboard.
Overclocking without understanding is often setting-up oneself for issues and failure. Good enough reason to learn how the motherboard bios actually works. Now we know why 'my' bios boots into the extreme mode settings from the get-go. Because I am going to manually set up my bios and thus by-pass any possible issues for me with most things 'auto' as regards cpu speeds and ram speeds.
Okay about D.O.C.P. I have attached a picture below that hopefully is like a picture is worth a 1,000 words.
There maybe a time and a season when D.O.C.P. might be to one's advantage. However when it is capable of manipulating CPU multiplier and FSB Ferquency on its' own...that can be asking for trouble. Maybe not too much trouble when using a lesser FX 8 core processor like the FX-8350 but can certainly create a problem for the unwary with a greatly "factory overclocked" cpu like the FX-9590.
The default speed of the FX-9590 is 4.7Ghz which for a long time now has been a 'good' watershed for an overclocked FX-8350. However when the "multiplier" is manipulated, it generally takes the cpu out of control of the TurboCore mode and now suddenly you have ALL the cores enabled at a pretty advanced clock speed and are no longer under the umbrella of the specs for the cpu as set forth by AMD whereby the FX-9590 is not going to upclock but 1/2 the total number of cores on the processor and also you leave behind the AMD cpu's ability to really raise and lower the cpu speed according to load and temps. Ergo...issues. Auto manipulated FSB Frequency can certainly create a problem because the FSB aka HT Reference Frequency is tied to the HT Link Speed; the ram speed; the CPU_NB speed and of course CPU speed. When you manipulate FSB, you manipulate those other speeds also. To do so by 'auto' can be a real shocker with resultant instability.
You get decent heat sink compound installed between your cooler and top of cpu and then check back and we will learn to setup the bios and if at all possible bypass any 'auto' stuff with the inherent ability to do stuff we are not fully aware of. Luck man.
RGone...
