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Agree. im on 6700k with no performance issues. I have no idea what microsoft is thinking with this gen requirement. 6 7 8 and 9 are quite literally all the same. They added extra cores and managed to clock a bit higher is about all that changed. I imagine with the internet rage going on around this and tpm, both will be dropped. gen requirement, and tpm down to 1.2. I can almost bet on it.

I have a stick of ram here my pc wont start at all with it plugged in, pull your ram sticks 1 at a time, see which ones causing a problem if any. Trust me on this, it happens.

After fighting with problem after problem i finally gave up after trying every driver and trick anyone could come up with. Put my old 390 back in. My findings are as follows.

Depth- (DX9) Solid 75 fps capped, max settings on 390. Same settings and fps cap on or off on 5700 XT, stutters, drops into the 30s, chugging.
Destiny 2- High textures, medium everything else, vsync on, 60 fps drops to 48 on the 390.  \    Max settings, res scale 125, vsync off, stutters, drops into the 30s. vsync on, playable, but will still drop to low 40s high 30s, very choppy image. (only 60 percent gpu usage at max settings 1080p, so its not struggling to run the game at all) on the 5700 XT
Fortnite- runs fine on both but the last 2 drivers have caused distant objects to flicker on 5700 XT, 390 does not suffer this issue with the same drivers.

Not to mention the screen flickering in BF3 and 4 on 5700 XT, watching any content on second monitor while gaming (yes hardware acceleration is off) causes the monitors to lose signal after flickering like crazy.
My PC refuses to restart or shut down via the windows options when running 5700 XT, no issues doing so on 390. The list goes on and on, Basically SOMETHING is terribly wrong with the AMD drivers for this card, and from my googling and forum jumping im not alone. (Though mentioning this on the AMD reddit causes a rage not seen since Anakin killed his own wife in episode 3 and screamed NOOOOOOOOO!)

The absolute WORST part is, in games where it doesnt give any issues, its an amazing gpu, BF1 ultra 120 fps capped, gta v average of 125 fps max settings, witcher 3 WITH HAIRWORKS ON, 60 fps solid on ultra. But there are just far to many games i personally play that give issues my old 390 does not. So im stuck waiting for a fix. Heres the issue.



Not once in any "known issues" section of an AMD drivers page has ANY of these issues been listed, despite seeing countless others suffering the same problems, it seems AMD is dead silent on the driver issues with the 5700 series, i guess not to muck up the PR for the thing since its selling like hot cakes.

My question is, based on past experience you have had with AMD and bad drivers for new cards, how much longer do i have to wait? Its been 2 months since launch, i spent 1 month suffering issue after issue personally before i tossed my old gpu back in to game in peace, so really how much damn longer do we have to wait for them to even give the courtesy of mentioning these issues in the patch notes as being worked on. 2 months in and NOT ONCE, have these major issues been addressed. They silently fixed the BSOD issue, ill give them that, but black screens and game flickering, and stuttering, and poor DX 9 performance, some games performing badly despite the card having enough power to tear through them etc all still exist after 2 months.

Should i just take the L and sell this card since my return period is up, or is there any small sliver of hope we get a fix BEFORE the December mega driver, because im sorry but waiting until December to use a card i bought at the end of August isnt acceptable. At all.

Cant buy a Rad 7, as they apparently have similar problems, every other AMD gpu is a downgrade outside of that, refuse to go Nvidia because i had similar and even worse driver issues with them, and they lack features i use on the AMD side daily (and i just cant stand their Windows XP style control panel personally) Theres also the price premium so i would be forced to drop a performance tier if i want to spend the same amount i did on the XT (600 cad)

I need some good news here, what was the single worst gpu launch for drivers outside of the 5700 series? And how long did it take them to fix those issues? Personally im giving them until November and then im seriously considering selling it. Ill wait for next summer and RDNA 2 and hopefully good drivers by then, but im not going to have a 600 dollar paper weight sitting around collecting dust, if they cant solve this after 3 months.

Oh well, ill have to do a youtube sleuth to see if someones done a head to head of a skylake vs a ryzen in an emu. Guess im going Ryzen

No. I will NEVER buy Nvidia again, and i already have a 5700xt i JUST spent 650 cad on which is better than a 2070/s anyday. Pass, thanks though. Thanks for reminding me to update my sig though lmao

See the problem i have is they are using the newly added hot spot temp. Use the edge temp like every other gpu released to date, and stop worrying over a new sensor AMD added. It wont throttle until 110c on that hot spot temp, ive had my 5700 xt for a week now and the hot spot has never gone over 85, and ive been really cranking the settings and or frame rate. Keep the stock card, mines a stock blower and i love it. No thermal issues at all. I came off an R9 390 which would game at 85 to 94 edge temp, i cant even fathom how spicy the hot spot was (because it wasnt reported on older gen gpus) Why worry over a temp thats reached by every single gpu out their, but just not reported to the user due to lack of a sensor. Its silly.

I hope she takes ethan up on the fart in a jar offer though, just so i can watch them all gag on stream lmao

Is the people getting herpes from that bathwater real? cause if so, actual lol.

Its mostly horny teens into her i think, actual adults/actual gamers couldnt give a toss less about her, just using her looks for money and fame. Like congrats you're hot, what else have you got going on, nothing? Oh moving on then lmao. Besides there are better looking girls on twitch that actually game and dont use their looks for personal gain.

Its mostly horny teens into her i think, actual adults/actual gamers couldnt give a toss less about her, just using her looks for money and fame. Like congrats you're hot, what else have you got going on, nothing? Oh moving on then lmao. Besides there are better looking girls on twitch that actually game and dont use their looks for personal gain.

Does Belle even "actually" game. Strikes me as a for the attention kinda girl tbh, which its working but calling it gamer girl bath water when shes a casual doesnt really fit the bill ya know.

Well my mom still doesnt understand how a cpu and gpu can get up to 50 to 80 c without starting a fire. Im like. mom................ please stop.  

Both MSI and Gigabyte put out new 990fx chipset boards in 2015. I own the 990fxa gaming, and my friend has the step down the 970 gaming. Both great boards, sadly i didnt get to use it very long as im moving to skylake, but its been a trooper the last 6 months. They are both as feature modern as you can get with the am3+ platform, and the msi board was 130ish cad.
 
https://ca.msi.com/Motherboard/990FXA-GAMING.html#hero-overview
 
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5655#ov

Agree if you dont already own an FX cpu, do not sink any money into one, im moving to skylake for a reason, 98 percent of games run fine sure, but for that other 2 percent the problems arent just minor they are game breaking. GTA V refuses to run properly for me, BF4 has nasty stutters and fps drops while playing on 64 man servers, etc etc. the 8350 at the time i bought it was fantastic, but it just cant cut it anymore, and no fancy motherboard will fix that, trust me i thought my 990fxa board would get rid of my issues, it didnt. Spend the money on an i5, even with the cheapest mobo, its going to be better.

even on absolute ultra settings my gpu use wont go above 65 to 70. it spikes up to 100 when something blows up, otherwise it just refuses to hit 100, though i am running at 1080p, and i am using a 390 so its probly just not a game that can fully stress a 390, especially mine thats aggressively overclocked. Add in the higher cpu overhead of radeon gpus and there you have it. a nice 8350 bottleneck.

Honestly that cpu isnt to much worse than an FX 6300. Should be just fine with a slight OC. I dont know how well those things clock but if 3.3 or something is possible on it then go for it. 780 isnt really that impressive of a gpu anymore its basically a 970, which arent to hard to run either, nvidia gpus have very low cpu overhead so it should do just fine with it.

Honestly that cpu isnt to much worse than an FX 6300. Should be just fine with a slight OC. I dont know how well those things clock but if 3.3 or something is possible on it then go for it. 780 isnt really that impressive of a gpu anymore its basically a 970, which arent to hard to run either, nvidia gpus have very low cpu overhead so it should do just fine with it.

Aside from maybe being to similar to a new hope, and a bit fan servicey there wasnt anything massively wrong with it. Was certainly the semi safe but not to safe (you know exactly the part i speak of) movie we needed to kick off the new trilogy.

WOW. And i bet next thing your gunna say is yoda dies to right? pfttttt. pls you cant kill a jedi.

Maybe one day.

I know its not the highest end water cooler ever, but being my first AIO i didnt want to go overboard, i also got it for 30 bucks off with free shipping so.
(Im not saying sorry for all these puns)

I know its not the highest end water cooler ever, but being my first AIO i didnt want to go overboard, i also got it for 30 bucks off with free shipping so.
(Im not saying sorry for all these puns)

Maybe one day.

I know its not the highest end water cooler ever, but being my first AIO i didnt want to go overboard, i also got it for 30 bucks off with free shipping so.
(Im not saying sorry for all these puns)

Maybe one day.