I got the parts I put them together I didn't put thermal paste on the cooler because I bought a used cooler with no paste, fried My CPU cried for 2 month then got money to buy a new one and some thermal paste
anything overclocked you should expect to get hotter especially at full load its normal and the temps are more then fine. but personally i dont like my temps going over 80
some games like far cry 4 idk if its still but they wont run on 2 cores even if its strong enough to run it.
and if im a fan boy new build would not have an I7 and a 290x it would have AMD CPU wouldn't it? and not every thing does better per single core performance bro
getting him a 260X will be perfect too it can can all modern AAA games a low and AAA games from like 2012 on max but idk how much that is in his currency
not stock you have to OC it witch makes it dumb because then you spend more on a motherboard to OC and in the end you spend more so get your fan boying out of here just like everything don't be a pussy and side with the side that has more fans to be cool I just pick whatever works regaudless of brand