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Okay problem solved! well ish. i'm getting more respectible frames per second in games now but i'm still going to need a new CPU. see if my budget will stretch to a 2790k or might have a look at the new broadwell processors. Thanks a bunch everyone! now to start trying to cool down this 290x!

hmmmm. do you have any other HDMI, cables you could use? the cable could be naff.

alright have you assured that the card is sitting correctly in the motherboard and that the card it's self has power?

Hey, how have you got the card connected to the monitor?

That would be excellent. You have my permission!

can i just add this isn't solved. i accidentally clicked solved....

okay so after some more testing it seems on most games my CPU stays at below 60% usage while my graphics card is gunning it at 100%. this makes no sense whats so ever. do you think i my overclock on my CPU could be causing this? maybe messed with something i shouldn't have...

Heyy. I usaully wouldn't delve onto a PC forum as i'm quite good with hardware and have many friends who can usually solves problems but this one has pushed me too far. I recently (three days ago) bought a r9 290x to replace my ageing gtx 570 and i was reasonably surprised when my new...