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  1. 38 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

    There is no FX 8950. Did you mean 8350? 

     

    With that CPU and GPU combo, both are very power hungry. You will be pushing that PSU close to it's limits. I would suggest thinking about upgrading to a 650w Gold rated PSU. 

     

    As for this grinding noise from the GPU, it's most likely worn bearings in the blower fan. As you probably know, these blower coolers on the 290's really scream and as such, they will wear out over time. You can buy replacement fans for these coolers online for fairly low cost. The just unscrew from the cooler assembly. Can easily find tutorials on how to do this with a quick search. :)

    sorry yea 8350

     

    and that explains why i cant run both at 100%

     

  2. because i got lucky and got this card for 20 dollars bc the guy i know could install the drivers right and thought the card was defective.... but i dont have a super alot of money to buy after market cooler even though ive been looking for the artic 3

     

    my build 

    msi 970 mother board

    amd fx 8950

    corsair 500 w bronze psu

    radeon r9 290

     

  3. i have a gigabyte r9 290 and only on boot up after the card cools i get a grinding noise for the initial boot, i took the card apart and i couldn't see any cables it was grinding on or anything, does anyone have any ideal what that could be

  4. 39 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

    I dont know much, but an AMD with 8 cores, is not a true 8 core.

    Probably wouldnt even be close to an i7 4 core with 4 hyper threads. Maybe even with an i5 with no hyper threading.

    Just do yourself a favor and buy Intel.

    but i thought performance for price amd would be a better deal?

  5. 7 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

    It depends. Intel has several chips better than the 8350. However, depending on what you do with the PC, you may or may not see a huge improvement in your everyday tasks, and the increase in performance you see may or may not justify the cost of upgrading.

    i usually stress test play 2 games of division on two monitors

     

     

    well comparing my computer to my friends, his i5 i did not  see much of a performance difference. thats what was i was confused about.

     

    7 hours ago, SLAYR said:

    Naming a topic any Amd vs intel, or amd vs nvidia is almost a sure way to get it locked.

     

    AMD chips currently have lower singlethreaded performance, but if you can use all of the threads on the 8350 then it will perform better then an i5, but below an i7.

     

    So unless you want the best amd cpus are still good, but I wouldn't recommend anyone buying a new fx series cpu, there lower end cpus like the 845/880k are great cpus for the price though.

    i got my black edition for 100 dollars when a sale was being ran so i thought it was a good deal for a 8 core

     

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