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I've done everything so far, I've just tried it out again in Battlefield, when it got to a particuarly taxing and hectic moment the game (and subsequently the system) just entirely froze again, really unsure what it could be at this stage?

Temperatures are fine across the board, never hit more than 50 on my CPU and never more than 70 on my GPU Going to give it a go, see if it'll improve anything Never thought of actually doing this, seems alien to me to go back down to 3.5 Ghz lol, I'll give this a try now, as well as reslotting my hardware, thanks!

Hey guys, so my PC has been acting really weird recently and I can't quite place what's wrong with it, it's been happening over the past 4/6 weeks I'd say? Sometimes when a programme doesn't respond it crashes the entire system, meaning I have to reboot or just stare eternally at a frozen screen, I've waited up to 30 mins after one of these crashes to see if it'll continue but to no avail. Also, during quite intense games (often Battlefield V for example) it will stutter quite heavily for like a 4 second period and then continue normally, I also had an issue in Fifa before where it just completely froze mid-game. I've had performance stutters before and not really thought much of them, but when a game of Hearts of Iron 4 is loading and just decides to freeze my entire system, it can get really frustrating. I had suspected disk errors, or more I'm hoping disk errors, my current HDD is a 1TB drive that's around 5/6 years old but is showing no performance issues in any benchmarks or system tests, I'm running my windows off a relatively new 120gb SSD. I had thought maybe the HDD can't keep up with modern games, but it's just a guess and I'm likely wrong My system specs are as follows: I5 6600k OC'd to 4.4 GHz (Perviously 4.7 but I turned it down to see if it would help stability) MSI R9 370 16GB Corsair DDR4 @ 2666Mhz (I think it's rated at that speed, I'm not 100% sure) Gigabyte GA-z170X-Gaming 3 120GB Samsung SSD 1TB HDD (Can't remember the make, think it's Toshiba) Any idea's on what it could be? Just typing out this forum post now, my chrome crashed, went to a white window. I ended it in task manager before it caused a system freeze but after that Chrome was just completely unresponsive when I opened it, like couldn't type in the search bar or click any of my favourites.

Ah okay I didn't consider, apologies I'm not as computer adept as I'd like to be, I'm getting there though! And it's an arctic freeze xtreme rev. 2, I'm hoping to move over to the Corsair h100i v2 however

It does look really nice, goes well with my white and blue theme in my case, moving over to the gigabyte might ruin that theme come to think of it....

I've gone into bios to do it, it does have predefined profiles for the cpu but the 4.6 just bombs out straight away after bios boots up again, I'm using a pretty decent cooler too so there's no issue of overheating, or at least there shouldn't be. I just assumed it wasn't getting enough voltage but for the life of me I can't find the setting to let me adjust it

I have somehow ended up with both of these boards for my latest build, I'm just wondering which would be more preferable to use? I'm using crossfire'd 480's although that doesn't really change anything, but I am currently using a i5 6600k which overclocks to 4.4ghz, I tried getting it up to 4.6 but the ASrock overclocking utility is to say the least, poor. Just wondering if there's any discernible difference between the two brands and if I should swap over to the gigabyte? I know ASrock used to be a subsidiary of ASUS, but ended up making bad products. I'm not currently having many problems with the ASrock at the moment, but the overclocking leaves a lot to be desired. Thanks

CPU usage was 100% in game and the gpu usage hovered between 80-100% for the first card and 60-80% for the second

An i5 6600k? I had just upgraded from AMD 8300 to the 6600k, I was thinking of selling that and going straight for the i7 6700k

Yeah I put it up to 8x to see what would happen and I got around 15fps average

Everything is 100% up to date, I always hover around 60fps on GTA V, max I've seen is 62 fps. and Crysis 3 never gets above 30 for more than a second.

My bad, again I'm new here haha It's at 1440p, I knew there would be some performance drop going up resolutions but not this much Maybe I have just been expecting too much from the 480's?

Apologies, yes it is definitely enabled, and poor performance as in it's tough to get past 20 fp/s on GTA V with everything maxed, I have to turn MSAA off entirely. Same situation with Crisis 3. Battlefield 1 is slightly better but it drops often way below 60fps which is noticeable and rather irritating.

Hi, I'm new to the forum and this is my first post, I have recently just bought two AMD RX 480's and I have been noticing very poor performance in games such as GTA V, Crisis, and even Battlefield 1. I have noticed that despite crossfire is enabled, performance has generally always been better with even just 1 card. I have checked all settings in the AMD control center, and there is nothing that should be hampering the cards. My specs are: Intel i5 6600k (overclocked to 4.4 ghz) 2x Asus Strix AMD 480 8gb Graphics Cards 32gb DDR 4 Venegance Ram 2666 ghz 120gb SSD 1tb HDD Corsair Hybrid Modular 750w power supply. ASRock z170 Extreme 4 Motherboard Nothing in there is overheating whatsoever either. I don't know whether this is a fault with Crossfire (I run everything in dx 11 as dx 12 support for CF is, to say the least, pitiful) or anything else. I am thinking of selling both cards and going out of pocket to buy a GTX 1080 instead. Thoughts?