ASRock FM2A88X Extreme6+ / A10-7700K observations

[Lightman]

Hope you get an better replacement chip soon, that was bad luck at the wrong time. Did your board also choose an richland type of nb voltage in manual mode? Mine picked 1.275V but when i ran it at auto settings 1.1375V was used.

TBH I'm still testing this CPU as now it seems to be OK with PCIe 3.0 stable at least with BIOS default loaded, but I'm still getting HW errors in cgMiner for Kaveri GPU. One thing I've changed was I installed proper memory, initially I only tested this righ with some old cheap Kingstons DDR3 1333MHz 1GB 1.7V modules x4 but finally putted my proper Kingstons HyperX Predator 2133MHz DC set and it just works. I haven't tried OC yet but ran 3D games and benchmarks for few hours and now 24h of mining on 2xR9 290 with not a single crash or error. The only worry I have is these HW errors on Kaveri while mining, but this might be purely because of AMD new OpenCL driver included in beta driver supporting new APU's.

If someone can test for me cgminer on Kaveri I would be grateful. I can provide the whole command line to one of my workers so it would be as easy as click and run

Edit:

Good question about NB voltages! I'm going to check it now ...

I'm back! Default NB voltage is set to 1.10V on Auto.
I now had no problem increasing BCLK to 102MHz with A10-7850k in the socket. Works great, will test more, including dGPU clocks over weekend as I'm quite busy right now!

Thanks for your feedback and great testing!

@Daveburt714 I wish you quick and full recovery!