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You have so many fantastic options with a budget like that! EVGA is indeed over compensating as most graphics card companies do, it's to protect them from people buying ultra low quality 500 watt PSUs and trying to get 490 watts out of them. Give these units a look. At your price range...

I agree with Herc08. A second CPU may actually bottleneck the GPU, and that's assuming a game would even understand what to do with it. SLI and Crossfire are both falling by the wayside as of late with very few game developers putting in the effort to get good utilization. Your best bet would...

Yeah I understand that. Just understand that my audio quality metric was compared to your other gaming headsets. Compared to studio grade on-ear monitors, even the highest end gaming headsets would be about a 4.0-4.5/10. I agree with you on that. I'm just trying to answer his question within the...

I wouldn't try going much bigger than a thick 360mm radiator, or a thinner 420mm radiator. Though you are correct that Corsair uses the same pump from the old line in pretty much everything up to the H110, these AIOs only ever have cool a single part (CPU), and the pump only has to move fluid...

I was actually answering the person's question. He asked what are the better gaming headsets with a dedicated mic. Not "What can I do after buying a pair of Audio-Technica ATH-M50Xs to get microphone out?" My audio quality metric is subjective to other gaming headsets, not the world of studio...

As a former Artemis Spectrum owner with nothing but problems, I'd steer clear of that headset unless you can find their newer G533 7.1 Digital Wireless. That one indeed is better in every way and cheaper. Of your list, the two Kingstons are both very solid options and you would be happy with...

Mic quality: Kingston HyperX Cloud Pro 9.5/10 Logitech G533 (7.1 Wireless) 9.0/10 Logitech G430 8.5/10 Roccat Kave XTD 5.1 Digital 7.0/10 Audio quality: Roccat Kave XTD 5.1 Digital 9.0/10 Kingston HyperX Cloud Pro 9.0/10 Logitech G533 7.1...

I reinstalled Windows from scratch after my graphics card died, just because I might as well start clean again. Everything was running fine and my motherboard showed all good for the voltage coming from each PSU rail. Specs: Asus Maximus VII Formula, OS drive: Samsung 850 Evo 120GB. Storage...

Alrighty. Update number 1. Installed the HD 7950 3GB from my brother. Booted up GTA V. Played it for almost an hour. Not a single problem. This is good news, because it pretty much solves my problem in the sense that I know what the vector is. Definitely something with the GPU. My next test is...

@Basroil: I'm not overclocked anymore though, and haven't been for the past three months. My MSI R9 290X runs at the stock 1080 MHz Core that it came at in the box, and my Core i5-4690K runs at the stock 3.9 GHz that it boosts to. I'm hoping it's not OC damage, but I never did anything dumb to...

I generally am pretty good with PC construction and troubleshooting, but this one has me stumped. In intensive games, my HDMI connection will go away to my monitor. I will hear the audio flicker from my USB headset and the monitor will say "Going to sleep", but the PC is still running. My Roccat...

No problem, man! Tom's Hardware Forums are pretty good and you'll usually find solid advice, though we aren't infallible. I'd recommend always doing some of your own research, even if that just means watching JayzTwoCents or HardwareCanucks on YouTube! If you want to just go with a single...

I'm glad I helped! Be sure to pick the answer that suited your question best, to close out the thread when you're satisfied. I completely understand the money constraint, the wallet hurts these days haha. Though I did notice that you said above that you are using a 750 watt power supply...

TL;DR Summary: The Sapphire Radeon R9 390X 8GB Tri-X and MSI Radeon R9 390X 8G Gaming are your best bets out of these five. In terms of bling factor, I believe the MSI variant has a white dragon on the side that glows, so if you have a windowed case, that's pretty neat. Both the Sapphire and MSI...