Recent content by chris AMD

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    Is my psu going out or bad connector on the psu?

    I have a seasonic 750 watt psu and I have overclocked fx6300, overclocked RX 480 card, 4 case fans, h80i water cooler with one radiator fan , one ssd and one hhd. Ok my hard drive has been acting up, sometimes not showing up in windows or bios. read and write speeds are also very slow...
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    Latest 'Doom' Update Now Supports Vulkan API

    When I enable vulkan i get flickering and a color distortion on side of screen. It doesn't do this in open gl mode. I have the latest drivers as well. I'm running a Rx 480 card
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    can't oveclock on windows 10

    I had my fx 6300 overclocked to 4.5ghz on windows 7 and it ran fine. when I updated to 10 it stll ran fine on windows 10 with overclock. Today i was messing around in bios and reset everything on mistake. now when i try to overclock it will not boot into windows 10 with the overclock. if i...
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    AMD Clarifies Why It Uses Intel Core i7 In Its Project Quantum Gaming PC

    I'm currently making due with a fx6300 clocked at 4.5ghz. Looking forward to zen and Am4. I will replace my current setup with that. Still might go Nvidia for graphics card. I want to upgrade from a 270x and nvidia still seems best for a 1080p setup
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    AMD FX Piledriver Processors Gaming 2015 and Beyond

    The new zen architecture for next year looks very promising. Read a bit about it past few days. They're talking something like a 40% improvement in ipc plus a lot of other cool aspects to it. I'll stick with my fx6300 clocked at 4.5ghz till zen arrives. If dx12 gives me a nice boost before then...
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    FX or not to FX?

    Thanks for all the suggestions. So basically I gather that from where I'm at with a 6300 already clocked at 4.5ghz, A 8 core fx wouldn't do much for me. At least for what I do with my rig.. Pretty much what I figured. My motherboard is a 4x2 power phase so I shouldn't push my FX6300 any higher...
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    FX or not to FX?

    I currently have a Fx6300 clocked at 4.5ghz on a asus m5a97 r2.0 board. Question is, is there anywhere for me to go for more performance with FX CPUs? would I gain any performance with a 8 core FX? I mainly use my rig for games, multi media and light general computer task. gaming is the only...
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    cod advanced warfare stuttering on my hardware

    I have a fx6300 cpu clocked @ 4.4ghz. r9 270x 2gb clocked @1150mhz 8gb system memory 1600mhz. Cod advanced warfare stutters in game play and prerendered scenes when I have settings set to extra. on high its pretty smooth with only a little stuttering in game play. In my case, what is likely...
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    Is steamroller only APUs ?

    There is the new athlon x4 860k cpu with steamroller cores. I think for fm2+ socket. I wish they would release a steamroller based fx for am3+ socket.
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    still think 2gb graphics cards are enough?

    Another article. http://gearnuke.com/middle-earth-shadow-mordor-pc-ultra-textures-compared-ps4xbo/