Recent content by BigBoomBoom

Move your budget up to $100. At $80 most AIO are not worth it.

79C is not hot. Well it's warm, still not hot. Anyway sounds like thermal paste dried out, usually you replace it within 2-4 years depending on paste. Have never heard of anyone breaking CPU by removing the water block/heatsink. Unless you got yucky paste that somehow glued the heatsink with...

Just load default or something from profile.

You don't need to clear CMOS. When update bios all your profiles and settings are automatically cleared and returned to default.

Yes. There should be a plastic wrap, remove it before you put it down.

Buy a splitter for fan header as well? If you want mobo to control fan that is.

There are plenty of 144Hz monitor with 1ms gtg response time, even 0.5ms response time. Those are TN panels. There is no IPS panel under 4ms gtg response time. I repeat, no IPS panel under 4ms gtg response time. VA stands in the middle of IPS and TN in terms of response time. All panels are...

That CPU is usually a bad buy nowadays. If you absolutely can't afford to change CPU + mobo + RAM then you need to buy 970, 990 and 990FX mobo. Those are the only mobos support 8 core FX CPU. And steer clear of FX-9590 or FX-9370 as upgrade path. Do not ever consider those in future, present...

Your mobo is the problem. Why do people keep trying to use 8 cores AMD FX CPU with low end mobo? Mobo doesn't have enough power for CPU.

The V8 is probably one of the worst compatibility wise. If it fits anything else should. Or maybe I'm getting confused with the Master Air Maker 8.

Depends, if you want high OC the R1 Ultimate or Dark Rock 3. Noctua NH-D15S is also extremely good. If you don't want to squeeze that much go with a normal Cryorig H5. H7 can do some light OC (higher number is not better for Cryorig, lower number is the higher more expensive version).

Depends, if stutter is indeed cause by frame drop due to GPU downclock by thermal throttle, yes absolutely. Even if it's not there is no reason not to, these GPUs run fine up until 90C. NVIDIA just like to lock a lot of parameters for safety.

If you aren't overclocking both are overkill anyway. If you do overclocking the pro is slightly better than non pro, in the end we are talking about a few C like 3-4 at most.

Ryzen does not play nice with BDO. It doesn't play bad like AMD FX but the game is not optimised for more cores nor AMD architecture. 82C is kinda bad for your GPU, you need to increase thermal limit via Afterburner or whatever equivalent you use. It is by default thermal throttle limit, i.e...