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Hi, everyone. Here's a link to my current PCPartPicker list if it helps any: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/j6fXqk Anyways, I've read through legions of questions similar to this one, and I'm strongly attracted to the performance of the AMD offerings this time around, especially since I'm hoping...

Ah, I see. Dumb question. Thanks!

Hi, everyone. I've been out of the PC building game for a couple of years, but I'm planning a new build since my current gaming rig is starting to show some age. I have a $900 budget that I'm attempting to stretch to its absolute limit, as I'm moving off to college in a little over two months...

Hello, TomsHardware community, long time no see. Anyways, my friend wishes to venture into PC gaming, but doesn't want to have to sell his kidney to get good performance. For this budget, I know that you can't max out Crysis 3 at 4K, but I do know that there is some good performance in this...

Hey everyone, a friend of mine is looking for a reasonably fast laptop for 500 USD. He doesn't plan to play many games on the system, as he already has a dedicated gaming build. Sadly, I cannot help very much, as my knowledge of laptops is not very extensive. Please leave some suggestions, they...

What brand and model of PSU are you using?

I'm not sure if you can run these two cards in Crossfire, and to my knowledge, even if you did the 270x would likely throttle down to the other card speed, which would actually harm your performance unless you disabled the card.

Yes, you could. The performance may take a hit, but it is possible. Notice the two DVI ports.

Ah, never thought about that. I usually don't mess with components that much but to each his own.

No, you wouldn't be able to do that. See, the coolers for CPU chips do not use fans to circulate air, they use them to cool a heatsink, which in turn cools the chip. So, if you did somehow get the cooler to attach to something, you would still get nowhere because the heatsink is hogging all of...

Yes. It will be able to run Starcraft 2, and it really wouldn't make much of a difference if you got the ASUS card, as there are some differences but 760 cards are pretty close in performance no matter the brand.

A CPU bottleneck is definitely a possibility, but perhaps clearing your old drivers and installing the latest ones for that 280 will help. Update: Man, I must type really slow....

As emdea22 said, the 760k will do better in multi-core games, generally speaking. At this budget level, Intel chips aren't exactly leaps ahead of AMD chips. Once the budget increases, Intel begins to distance itself. Of course, you could spend a little more and buy an FX6300...