My EVGA GTX 1080 SC has starting causing restarts by just playing games, I stress tested every other component and they were stable, and then I ran furmark and bingo it started restarting eveytime I ran the torture test, I even swapped out the 1080 and put my 970 in and it was stable through...
I've been using a 4690k for 2 and half years now, I'm just wondering if you guys think it will make sense to upgrade since the new i5s have 2 extra cores now, and if yes what AIO water cooler do you guys recommend to buy for overclocking?
Nah Eth mining is going to decrease in value alot since everyone is hopping on the massive mining bandwagon right now, give it a few months and Eth currency will be almost worthless.
Unfortunately Coil whine is sometimes unavoidable, And most if not all card manufactures don't RMA cards unless they coil whine over a certain decibel level, As you mentioned at the end you changed the power supply which *can* help but not always, if i were you i try for another RMA or try and...
Very good overall build, Yes if you're streaming and recording the i7s extra threads do help in that regard over the i5, The GTX 1060 will hold its own in csgo fairly well even at maximum settings, Just asking are you going to overclock?
A CPUs task in gaming is to handle physics and send instructions to the other components and the game like AI and loading times basically everything that doesn't involve the graphics, though some games are "less" cpu bound and more graphically intensive and same for the opposite side like CPU...
There are 2 options with your motherboard for a CPU upgrade, A Phenom x6 1090T which is not worth it, Or a FX 83** series cpu which i would recommend in your case since its newer and can overclock alot better. But what is your PSU Model? Because these are power hungry CPUs.