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"Our benchmarks suggested reducing the visual quality in more demanding games, such as Borderlands 3, will be required to get around 60 fps. In that sense, we almost wish this laptop had a 1920 x 1080 screen, but 2560 x 1440 gives you lots of extra screen real estate for productivity. " It's...

From what I can see, they have increased the lighting and lighting effects. The paint style is still there, but there is far more detail and likely more frames of animation. So that will explain the graphics portion. The game is also said to be massively larger then the others at release, so...

My nearest MicroCenter is 3 hours to Boston. Next build I will take a road trip, head into the city, go to my favorite restaurants (or find new favorites on Yelp) and have a great day out with some friends. Get a few friends in on the trip and go for it! In the end it'll cost more due to the...

Isn't cheap, but it exists: https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-alt-mechanical-keyboard There are other mech boards there as well as an odd little capacitive board: https://drop.com/buy/niz-plum84-pro-electro-capacitive-keyboard

Gotta wait for release. Honestly, 2GB more might sound good, but the speed difference might make up for it easily. If you're chomping at the bit to upgrade, a 1070 should easily be plenty.

Price per dollar, a RX 570 would be best, but if you don't know or can't trust the PSU as much, go with a slot powered GTX 1050Ti. Either one will be more than the CPU you have in there is able to handle, slight bottleneck on the 1050Ti and more on the RX570. I'd likely recommend this one if...

Your best bet is to measure the current card for size constraints. It will likely fit if you get a small enough card. As stated earlier, you will need power at the GPU as well. Counting on the current card, you may already have this. What is the current card? I know they made several models...

Best bang for the buck on team green: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500454 Best for team red: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150794 Notes on each: Zotac has less name appeal than some brands like MSI and ASUS but they have proven reliable...

Both are likely culprits. You have to do a full uninstall of drivers whenever you change cards. Also, it's good to have some spare power. Counting on the rest of the build, you might want to get a 550 or 600 watt PSU for extra headroom. Just don't cheap out on it. The PSU is one of few parts...

Did you try fully uninstalling the drivers using DDU before installing the card? If not, you could simply have a conflict in the drivers between old and new.

I think that build looks pretty solid. Good price/performance balance.

I have one of the Zotac GDDR5X cards and have it OC'd quite nicely (memory handles a +1000 OC without effort), though Barty has a very valid question. Though if my memory serves, don't touch that card. Powercolor has recently had some quality issues. Used to be great back when I had my 7870...

To add credence to the rest, a 9900k paired with a RTX titan is the pinnacle for gaming at the moment. More cores don't mean better core performance, it usually means quite the opposite. Core speeds are slower when there are more. That's why an i5 is recommended. Less cores, but faster clocks...

I'd suggest buying now since the market is back to pre-mining prices or better. I've seen 8GB 580 cards for 160-200 regularly and 6GB 1060 cards for $200. But I'd actually be more wary of waiting with Nvidia spiking the GPU prices on new model cards a bit too much IMO. We don't want that to...

I might suggest looking at a 8700k build, since that nets you 6 cores 12 threads and the higher single core performance Intel is known for. The 9700k is better single core and has more cores but less threads and costs about $50 or so more. While AMD has the core/thread per price ratio well...