AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

I tried turning the computer on but the leds on my cooling fans would flash then turn off. The actual computer would not. I took it in for a diagnostic and the GPU had shorted, and as a failsafe the computer wouldn't turn on to prevent further damage. I had tinkered with the Watt Management settings to run the fans faster at lower temps than the default settings because I explicitly did not want the card to fry

I'm afraid to run FurMark, because it recently fried one of my cards, so you'll have to excuse me for not using it. Regardless, I think these numbers are not too bad, considering that we only have two small rads and the tiny fans that are running at only up to around 50 percent speed at these temps and aren't that loud, leaving a bit more headroom for cooling if I ever want to blast the fans at 100%.

-Doesn't consume as much power as I'd expect. -VERY Quiet. I sometimes need to check that the fans are running sometimes lol Cons: -Seems like it's very picky with what games it can run well -Gets very hot suddenly -The MSRP is quite high for the performance gained

6GHz boost, and it has the same 95-watt rated power consumption. It's also overclockable, like the AMD part.

, As this is another esports title. I was not surprised to see another very high average of 207 FPS at 1080p and medium settings.. The framerate was a...

The 3600 acts at 117 FPS average lowers within reasonable run to run variants of the others. This results positions the r5 3600 as 1.7 percent. The he...

I'm leaning towards the GTX 970 as it is cheapest and my dad (was self employed in the pc industry with both software and hardware for 15 years) says it's still a very good card. Obviously cards like the RTX 3090 are out of the question but I'm looking for something at most under £200.

That's pretty insane, in two years AMD has increased performance at the $200 price point by almost 50%. The single core performance is equally impress...

1 but AMD's software downloads for this card only support either Windows 7 or Windows 10. Thinking "backwards compatibility" I downloaded and ran the Windows 7 graphics software download for this card; that got me 1920x1080 resolution display but no (incompatible with Windows 8.1, minus one star) RadeonSupport.exe control software

Since I am new to learning about PC's, I was wondering if this build would be good for gaming and recording/streaming. Hopefully everything is compatible with each other, if anyone could reassure that then thank you!

Did a bunch of research. Looked at a bunch of benchmarks. Decided to buy it. It was super easy to install and booted the first time

The 3600 X versus the 1600 X and then just for fun, we're gon na throw it all up against an i7 8700 K just to see how things stack up. Comparing these...