A10-7850K @3.7GHz
Stock cooler
Powercolor Turboduo 280x
Kingston HyperX Savage 8GB(2x4GB) DDR3 1866
MSI A88XM Gaming
EVGA 80+B 500w
Windows 10 x64
So, here's my story:
I've had my system for about a year now, only difference is that last December I popped in the 280x and an SSD. I know for a fact that I need to replace the stock cooler; my system gets very hot, the CPU shows thermal margains of around 22-25 while gaming, and I get very noticeable framedrops on some games. Going as far as kicking Trove and Rust below 30fps. I wanna overclock, and I want my system to have good temps so I'll be buying a CPU cooler and some case fans since my case supports 7 but I'm only using 4 random low quality fans. The frame issues happen to me on games such as Modded Skyrim, GTA V, Rust, Trove, Tera, and Minecraft with shaders. My windows installation is clean, the A10's GPU is disabled in BIOS. All RAM is available to Windows.
My question:
Is my CPU a bottleneck for the 280x? Would these "problems" banish once I get proper cooling and overclock?
First thing I'm thinking is the temps causing the CPU to throttle. If not, I'd think overclocking would help. If not... I'd look at the GPU or perhaps upgrading to Intel. But this is my first build, I don't have experience with other components so I'm turning here for help. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
Stock cooler
Powercolor Turboduo 280x
Kingston HyperX Savage 8GB(2x4GB) DDR3 1866
MSI A88XM Gaming
EVGA 80+B 500w
Windows 10 x64
So, here's my story:
I've had my system for about a year now, only difference is that last December I popped in the 280x and an SSD. I know for a fact that I need to replace the stock cooler; my system gets very hot, the CPU shows thermal margains of around 22-25 while gaming, and I get very noticeable framedrops on some games. Going as far as kicking Trove and Rust below 30fps. I wanna overclock, and I want my system to have good temps so I'll be buying a CPU cooler and some case fans since my case supports 7 but I'm only using 4 random low quality fans. The frame issues happen to me on games such as Modded Skyrim, GTA V, Rust, Trove, Tera, and Minecraft with shaders. My windows installation is clean, the A10's GPU is disabled in BIOS. All RAM is available to Windows.
My question:
Is my CPU a bottleneck for the 280x? Would these "problems" banish once I get proper cooling and overclock?
First thing I'm thinking is the temps causing the CPU to throttle. If not, I'd think overclocking would help. If not... I'd look at the GPU or perhaps upgrading to Intel. But this is my first build, I don't have experience with other components so I'm turning here for help. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
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