Recent content by Joe_Marangos

Hello Folkes, So I recently purchased a second Nvidia 980. I've been getting very poor frames in Far Cry 4, GTA 5 and other such games. I've been told that its a CPU bottleneck and the frames im getting at 1080p arnt right. I have an 8350. Im thinking of purchasing an i7 4790K this week but I...

The goal was eventually to upgrade to 4k when I had the money for a monitor. I checked several forum posts and all of them seemed to indicate an 8350 wouldnt cause to many issues at 1080p until I could afford 4k :/ So is it really the 8350 thats the issue? If so thats a real shame :/

Hello folkes, Hoping someone can help me out here. I recently upgraded to a 980 SLI configuration. To my knowledge and AMD 8350 (my current CPU) shouldn't bottleneck a system like mine to much. However, in GTA 5 ive been getting often 40 fps at max settings at 1080p. In Far Cry 4 people with...

Hello, When playing games my computer randomly shuts down. At first I thought my PSU was shot but then I noticed by CPU hitting around 70-75. Would this account for my computer shutting down? I have a stock heat sink but if this is the case I will buy an after market one. Thoughts on this would...

Hello, I'm alright with computers but I need a second opinion. These past few days my PC has been shutting down when running intensive tasks. When I reboot I enter the Asus Sabertooth BIOS screen. It says the CPU temp is about 70c. This does seem high but im pretty sure that's not a prerequisite...

Hello everyone, I was curious. I have a 750w power supply. Ive come into some money and want to crossfire the current 7970 I have with either a 280x or 7970. I have two questions: First is just conformation that the 280x can be successfully cross fired with the 7970 and if there would be any...

Hey there folks. Just wondering if a 750w 80+ PSU would be enough for a Xfire between a 7970 and 280x. I have 6 120mm case fans, a saber tooth mother board, 8350 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, a 120gb SSD, 1 TB 7200rpm HDD and a DVD/DVD write drive. I also have a mechanical Keyboard, corsair Mx65 mouse and a...

Hey there folks! This year I was planning on buying a 280x to Xfire with my 7970. There are a few questions I have. 1. Is the 280x and 7970 compatible? 2. Is 750w PSU enough? Or would you recommend me upgrading to and 850w? 3. Will my 8350 processor or 8GB of RAM bottleneck them in any way...

I have a 7970 OC with an AMD 8350. The processor shoudlnt be the issue right? And then power supply is 750w so that shouldnt be a problem? When running MSI Kombiburner it says im getting 100% gpu usage. When playing games like the wichter 2 or BF3 im peeking at 60-70% usage. Is there a fix for this?