JJTraxx, let me insert a couple of things right here.
1. Both "johan45" and "mandrake4565" have had the M5A99X EVO and the M5A99FX PRO boards and with an 8 core FX processor never succeeded with full stability beyond 4.5Ghz and maybe a little change. For all practical purposes if you are now at 4.5Ghz you may actually be very close to your max stable 24/7 cpu speed. Just remember that "generally" the X EVO and the FX PRO are just not the same calibre of board that the Sabertooth and CHV from Asus are. Close maybe but n0t the same. So do not beat yourself up trying to get a cpu speed much beyond the 4.5Ghz range because unless you are far luckier than those two users were, you will not get much more than 4.5Ghz rock solid for 24/7 use. I say this because it is critical information. Do not further frustrate yourself attempting what might just be only a long shot. There is an end to any overclocking attempt. 4.5Ghz-ish seems about it for the slightly lesser VRM circuit motherboards.
2. 32Gigs of ram is a load on any cpu that has an internal memory controller. That is why most of the server motherboards that are supposed to use large amounts of ram are only rated for DDR3-1333 ram. It is often just not possible to use 32Gigs ram at extreme speeds using internal memory controllers inside the cpu. That really is one general reality about ram speeds. Then it has been exhibited in these very forums, that Kingston ram is giving trouble to a number of users. You were given a link to one such user and "johan45" has been more or less around the world trying to find a 'break-thru' for that user. He did not actually find a real break-thru I do not believe. Close maybe but not actual DDR3-2133 ram speeds. Personally, I don't think DDR3-2133 is doable on FX processor with 32Gigs. DDR3-2133 is a rating that the ram 'could' reach, but it is not a sure thing by any means. DDR3-2133 is certainly not a ram speed that is a done deal with large amounts of ram AND an overclocked processor. Many of these various specs are and/or and if but not if. It is a juggling act most of the time. You may get your cake but you may not get to eat it all.
Part of helping with overclocking is perhaps to give a better or clearer picture of what is most generally reality. That is often all we can do. Just give a view of what is the "norm". There has been far too much hype put out about what an FX processor can do and it was so even before the release of the first FX Bulldozer processor line-up. There is nothing wrong about using an FX processor for work with some heavy duty applications. I have a friend in these very forums that put an FX-8120 thru workloads that took 8 to 10 days to have the application give an answer with 965BE Deneb processor. He put the FX-8120 to work with the same application and could get the result in like 3.5 days. But he had to drop the big overclock he had on the FX-8120 to allow for that sort of cpu hammering for hours on end. Fact of life. By the way that same application now gives results in hours with the application run on a motherboard and system with 4 opteron cpus on the board and running only 2.2Ghz with 64Gigs or ram at DDR3-1333. Knowing that, I know a job is best attacked with other than just blinding speed.
So better understanding the limits of a 'complete' system, can be a blessing in disguise. Knowing limits can make the entire propostion more readily attainable and thus a lot less frustrating.
I like that you have said you will continue your attack on your own. Such attempting to master your own parts and pieces is a mind-set too often overlooked in this 'gimme-now' society. A suck-it-up mentality is awesome to see in computering. You will certainly learn and know something in the end. Maybe not what you wanted to know, but at least what there is to know.
Now the IF that is always there in the real world. 1.) If you can get to 4.5Ghz with good temps for 2 hours of P95 blend being errorless you have done well on the motherboard you currently have with the cooling at hand. 2.) If that 4.5Ghz cpu speed with + 2 hours of P95 stability is done with the CPU_NB speed at approx 2400Mhz and the HT Link Speed at about the same 2400Mhz >> YOU have done WELL. 3.) If that 4.5Ghz with at least 2 hours of P95 Blend mode testing is accomplished with the 32Gigs of ram at DDR3-1600-ish speed, you have done WELL. Maybe you could consider your self having done very WELL, if that same ram is run with timings of 9, 9 (or 10), 9, 27, 41 with the CMD at 2T at DDR3-1600 plus or minus a little bit of ram speed. Your processing performance of real work will not be noticed good or bad if you are not at DDR3-2133 because of the amount of ram being so great. Right here another thing needs to be understood and that is that large amounts of ram may go completely un-used if the application/s in use are not written to use a large amount of ram. Just having ram is not a sign it will all be used at any one time. FYI according to what I understand. Heck I have been wrong before though.
What I am trying to do is give you a better idea of what success with your parts and pieces might very well look like. Success is just exactly that, in that it is getting where one can actually go. Good luck man and just hoping to more clearly show what 'getting-there' might really look like for you. Giving oneself a real chance to succeed is often what we need.
Here is hoping that happier computing is just around the next corner for you and that the corner is just before your eyes.
RGone...ster.
