- May 17, 2014
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So I thought I'd make the leap over to pc gaming with next gen on the horizon, and build myself a gaming pc for the first time.
I went with an AMD build for the price/ performance ratio ( and to slightly futureproof, since both next gen consoles have 8 core cpus).
When it cames to graphics cards however, I did initially want an R9 290, but a quick google search brought up hundreds of issues people were having with them. Problems with the fan and cooling, heat output throttling the performance below what reviews show, extremely loud and noisy and lots of issues with games crashing to a black screen.
So, all I want to ask is, has a fix been found by the communtity, or released by AMD? Most of the posts describing these issues are at least 4 months old (that I found, anyway). Have the multitude of issues been fixed now? Am I better off just getting an NVIDIA if not?
(On a side note, here are the parts for my planned pc: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3NiLD
feel free to give any comments, criticisms etc. This is my first build so any help would be much appreciated).
I went with an AMD build for the price/ performance ratio ( and to slightly futureproof, since both next gen consoles have 8 core cpus).
When it cames to graphics cards however, I did initially want an R9 290, but a quick google search brought up hundreds of issues people were having with them. Problems with the fan and cooling, heat output throttling the performance below what reviews show, extremely loud and noisy and lots of issues with games crashing to a black screen.
So, all I want to ask is, has a fix been found by the communtity, or released by AMD? Most of the posts describing these issues are at least 4 months old (that I found, anyway). Have the multitude of issues been fixed now? Am I better off just getting an NVIDIA if not?
(On a side note, here are the parts for my planned pc: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3NiLD
feel free to give any comments, criticisms etc. This is my first build so any help would be much appreciated).
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