You're remembering it incorrectly.
There were two types of 9500 non-pros. One had an L shape memory layout (2 chips above and beside the GPU), the other had all the memory chips in a row. If it had the L shaped layout, you could flash it to 9700 and unlock all 8 pixel pipelines and the full...
I was never able to find a solution to this.
Having gsync enabled seem to fix the problem in most cases, but not all.
My 100% fix was to replace my 60hz monitor with a 144hz monitor.
For some reason I had AVX offset to 5 and it was triggering the downclock randomly?? I disabled it and now it runs at max clock.
Strange!
Thank you for the help guys!!
I've got it set to 4.9GHz via bios, but when running stress tests, it keeps jumping up and down from lower clocks.
My old 6600k stayed at the max clock for the duration of the stress test.
Any idea why this happens?
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