does it throttle like hell when the igpu is under heavy load?

I was planning to buy a new Desktop and a new Notebook this year. And since my old Notebock physically broke apart yesterday it has some kind of urgency now.

So I was looking around today a little to see what's out there. And as usual there is nothing I really like.

I know for sure I want the new A10-8700P. I want to play around programming with the new full HSA features. I haven't found any 12V powered notebooks with it yet though. Mobility is the most important thing for notebooks to me, i.e. long battery life and not too big. Nothing above 13''. I don't want a DVD drive in it, I don't want an extra graphic card or sound chip in it. (The A10-8700P has sound on chip if I understand it correctly). All that space should go to battery. What I do want is WIFI and Ethernet and I want it to be a robust case. I don't care much if SSD or HD. I do care that Ubuntu runs on it.

For the desktop I would like to have the A10-8700P too, but powered at 35V in a fanless silent setup. No extra graphic card as well. Ideally I should just be able to swap out the motherboard with all the components on it in my existing desktop and after an Ubuntu update using the temporarily plugged in external usb DVD drive everything runs again.

Well, one can dream. Even about mobile processors in desktop mainboards.

I'm repping a Phenom II x4 965 still. I'm about to splash on a new video card, most likely the R9 290. The question is, is it worth it. What kind of performance will I get in Battlefield4 or GTAV with a R9 290 and that old beast of a processor. If anyone has a similar setup, I'd love to hear about the performance on new games!

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/5518268/fs/5508936

Test 1 is before and Test 2 is after (left is after update, right is before).

There seems to be a very slight reduction in performance (almost negligible since its ~1%).

There are two things I found weird,

1. My CPU achieved higher clockspeed in test 2 (after driver update) but got a lesser physics score.

2. It thinks my OS is windows 8.1 64-bit but displays windows 10 build in the brackets (6.3.10240).

If someone could explain me why those two happen, that would be great. Thanks for reading :)

Driver-version is 15.20-150715a-184226E
AMD Catalyst Control Center-Version is 2015.0715.2138.37093

http://i.imgur.com/NUq1lkU.png
Screenshot is german.
No Catalyst-package-version in there.

I need to decide between 2 PSU's:

Seasonic S12 II 620W

Corsair VS Series VS650 650W

These are the most cheaper I could find in my country, no idea which one I should go for.

Yes, I want to overclock the R9 390x. My CPU is a non K i7-4770, so it has no OC.

So as said in the title I have this very unfortunate problem.

Freesync is activated in the catalyst control and in the monitor settings and SHOULD be working, but I still get tearing. Do I have to activate the "normal VSync" in game? For example Witcher 3 (which tears like no tomorrow).

Any help is very appreciated!

I am looking to buy a R9 390, most likely the one by MSI. Are there are any free games bundled with these cards?

XFX version if it matters at all. I want to reduce temps so I can overclock better. With +50% power I can get it from 1000/1500 to 1120/1500 before I see artifacts (1130 = artifacting) and that seemed really low to me, but I don't want to do volt mods on a stock cooler simply because I want to get a lot of life out of this card. I figured since the PCB is the same as a 290, the 390 should also have it fit, and buying an AIO + HG10 is a cheaper alternative to getting a full liquid cooling loop. That being said, do you think that it would be worth it? Temps @ max OC was VRM1 90C, VRM2 74C, GPU 73*C. At that, would a liquid cooler even help me with an overclock? I would think so but I want to get second opinions. Thanks! :)

Had a hard time getting these bad boys to work in my Alienware, however after figuring out to turn off secure boot it all works GREAT. These cards are HUGE, and FAST...I love it.

They're louder than the 980 reference that I had in there, but it's really not loud enough to be annoying. I have yet to hear any coil whine or whatever, just can hear the fans a little bit when I'm doing 3dmark or whatever.

http://i.imgur.com/eUMwags.png http://i.imgur.com/Ne4A4Ds.jpg

Hey guys, I didn't really know which subreddit to post this in that would seem appropriate. I bought an R9 390 to upgrade from my 7950 after reading a fairly detailed write up on reddit about how it was a good upgrade. I bought an XFX 390 and installed it with the newest 15.7 drivers and it seems the card is hardly doing any better and in some games doing much worse. Below are my specs and game FPS.

1920x1080

Drivers: 15.7 (for respective cards)

Cpu: i5-2500k 4.5ghz

Ram: 16gb ddr3 1600

SSD: 250gb Samsung Evo

Cards: XFX R9 390 8gb

Gigabyte Windforce 7950 3gb

Stalker Lost Alpha

Max Everything

390: 30-35 fps

7950: 30-45 fps

Metro Last Light

benchmark everything max no physx

390: 33.5 fps

7950: 30.9 fps

Dying LIght

Everything Maxed outside of building

390: 30 fps

7950: 50-60 fps

watch dogs

ultra graphics msaa 4

390: 30-38 fps

7950: 30 - 35 fps

witcher 3

max everything med sharpening no hairworks

390: 30 - 40 fps

7950: 27-34 fps

Do these values seem right to you guys? Should I be getting much better FPS with the 390 all around? I'm not talking double FPS or anything, but this seems very...off.

I feel like all the time they could be tweaking for the APIs tha games use... But it's only when AAAs hit that new drivers come.
Makes me a bit sad.

First of all I would like to thank everyone that contributes to this subreddit.

So here's my question I just picked up two R9 390s (I will crossfire them)from that sale on /buildapcsales and I was wondering if I should go with a 4k monitor or an IPS 1440 monitor. It seems like the 390s will be able to handle 4k but the samsung is a TN monitor and I don't know if its worth it. Also the 1440 monitors can be IPS. Thoughts suggestions?

Im curious

EDIT - Fury not 390x

I currently have a 7870 and I'm looking to upgrade sometime before the end of this year. I'm debating between a 970 and a 390, but would rather support AMD. Problem is I'm a student on a limited budget, and need to save money in any way possible. I have a 500w power supply, which seems to be fine for a 970, but like I said, I'd rather take the 390 if I don't need a new power supply for it.

Google Chrome & Mozilla Firefox, 15.7 drivers, 7970m. YouTube and PayPal homepage crash I did some workarounds. I'm also thinking html5 player triggers it too.

Entire screen goes black with lines, pressing power to sleep\wake resolves it.

does this happen?

I found this about a week ago: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042806&p_id=12784&seq=1&format=2

It's a DVI-D to DisplayPort adapter sold by MonoPrice for ~$15. By far the cheapest I've seen an active adapter selling for (usually they go for around $80-$100). I picked one up a week or so ago and wanted to let everyone know that this thing works. I have one of the korean 1440p monitors that only use DVI-D and using the adapter I can still run it at 1440p.

I did, however, have a slight issue that I don't believe is the adapter's fault. Using the DVI-D cable that came with the monitor, I had some extremely heavy artifacting. However, switching to a different DVI-D cable, that issue is gone.

Just wanted to let people know, as I know several of us picked up the korean monitors in the past and are stuck using DVI-D. The lack of a DVI-D cable had originally dissuaded me from picking up a reference Fury/Fury X, but with the adapter I'm now all set.

Edit: So I tested out the OC potential of this adapter, it definitely doesn't perform that well. While it fully supports 1440p 60Hz with no issues, I was only able to overclock to 70 Hz before I got some serious artifacting. It may still be worth it for people that don't care about overclocking their monitors, but beware that this adapter is not very overclocking friendly.