help! Is my CPU or GPU the problem?

[Robby Flanders]

i got fairly low 3d mark scores for my specs, ive put a lot of money into my system so im concerned that something is not working correctly and needs to be RMA. Please help
My results : http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5500138

is my cpu or GPU the issue? My specs;
GTX 970
600W CX PSU
16GB DDR3 RAM
2TB HDD
120GB SSD
Gigabyte GA990FXA Ud3 Motherboard (3.0 revision)
FX8350 CPU

 

[Robby Flanders]

my 4690k during 70% load gaming never goes higher than 40 either. I rarely see this chip even hit 41. But I do have the H100i cpu cooler and run stock speeds.

I have an h60, does the job well

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

So far I've had good luck with amd cpu's and graphics. For your 6300 dying I can sympathize with you. I saw that happen to a 6100, kid was running stock cooling which should have been enough but the cpu fried with stock cooler and paste at stock speed. That is why me I don't care for the newer stock coolers on their lower end cpus.

Why didn't you contact amd? You know those chips have a 3 year warranty right? Even if you are switching to Intel if you could get a new fx 6300 for replacement you might could sell it on ebay as new/working and that would pay your price difference from your switch to the i5.

 

[Robby Flanders]

So far I've had good luck with amd cpu's and graphics. For your 6300 dying I can sympathize with you. I saw that happen to a 6100, kid was running stock cooling which should have been enough but the cpu fried with stock cooler and paste at stock speed. That is why me I don't care for the newer stock coolers on their lower end cpus.

Why didn't you contact amd? You know those chips have a 3 year warranty right? Even if you are switching to Intel if you could get a new fx 6300 for replacement you might could sell it on ebay as new/working and that would pay your price difference from your switch to the i5.

They took it back but I got an FX8350 while it was in the process. They shipped me a new fx6300 and I gave it to a friend

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Ah. Hopefully you like the new Intel system. I'm personally holding out with my overclocked cpu for a little while and hopefully amd will release new higher end cpus. If they could get ivy bridge/haswell performance from them I'd be happy. If not then I may be weighing my options also.

 

[galactigus]

I'm running a 6300 right now as well at stock with a 212 evo temps stay around 40 C. It just seems silly to me to spend so much on a custom rig and cheap out by not dropping in a 25-30$ aftermarket cooler. I'll never use the stock cooler that comes with a cpu and I'm glad intel did the smart thing and did away with them for their newer processors I'd rather not have to pay the extra money for them. I just hope it catches on and amd follows suite.

They could at least give the option to buy with or without stock cooler for those that don't want to buy a separate one for whatever reason.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Sometimes you can buy tray/oem cpus which are basically the cpu by themselves.