In the meantime read this link.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290x-thermal-paste-efficiency,3678.html
Hello.
A few months ago I bought a gaming computer worth about $1500, I believed everything to be top notch so I won't need to change anything any time soon.
CPU: AMD FC-9590 Eight-Core Processor 4.72GHz
RAM: 12GB
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-D3P
HDD:WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0 ATA Device
OS: Windows 8.1
This is an incredibly strong computer and should not have any problems, but when I play games, I experience FPS drops when there are too many things on the screen or too much stuff happening, when it begins, it lasts 2-3 seconds then returns to normal.
Then it happens again when going too fast while driving, too many characters on screen, looking at a large landscape etc...
I find that closing Chrome and disabling Explorer helps a bit but not too much.
Sometimes I notice my disk performance spiking up to 100% sometimes, and when I startup it stays at 100% for a while, and also when i'm transferring files.
So, why is this happening to my "top notch" computer even when it should play anything with ease?

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