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Heads up as this is a long post (See the TL;DR at bottom if you wish to skip the heavy line of text) Hello people of the internet, so lately I been thinking of upgrading my monitor. I currently have two ASUS V248QE Monitors (1080p, 144Hz, TN Panel, NO GSYNC/FREESYNC) and they're great. I owned...

Considering an upgrade from a Geforce GTX 970/i5-4690K to Sapphire AMD RX 5600 XT/Ryzen 5 3600 for 1080p/144 hz? Hello people of the internet, getting straight to the point my current PC build was made in May of 2015. These are the specs that I am currently rocking. Geforce GTX 970 i5-4690K...

Hello everybody, this is a dumb question but I need help. I am looking to upgrade to Windows 10 64-bit or just do a clean install. When I search online to buy a copy, there seems to be many different variations and I don't quite understand what they mean. Some places offer a digital key such...

Hey everybody, so I been thinking about getting two new monitors. Main reason why is so I can multi-task easier when I am learning how to manage Linux and Windows server, etc for school. I am a gamer and do a ton of PC gaming, mainly for single-player and co-op games. I very rarely do...

Current Specs: Windows 7 64-bit i5-4690K CPU Evga Geforce GTX 970 16 GB DDR3 RAM 1600MHz (4x4) ASUS H97-PLUS Motherboard Corsair CMPSU-650TXV2 - Bronze Certified (I had this PSU for 7 years) I been thinking about upgrading my gaming PC as there are some things about it that will be dated in a...

I might just end up upgrading my PC.

Benchmark Test This is a benchmark test playing Resident Evil 2 with medium settings on 1080p resolution. Notice how the gpu usage goes up and down alot?

The MAX temp is around 54 degrees C. My temperatures says its fine even with AVG disabled. I'm at a lost here.

Do you think a Thermal Throttle could be a problem for me? Like I said in my original post I haven't changed it and for the last few years my PC did get very hot so i don't know if that wore down the thermal or not. Should I try cleaning the thermal paste and reapply a new one?

I rolled back the nvidia drivers a bit to 399 version but no luck. I just switched from Avast to AVG, and even disabled it but no luck there either. I even tried running the games off an SSD and still no difference. I been doing some benchmarking with MSI afterburner and I notice my GPU usage...

I don't really have any specific type of budget. I could probably go to $400-$500. And I do know that I will have to upgrade some parts within the next year or so, so I may as well start looking into it.

System Specs: GTX970 i5-4690K cpu 16 GB DDR3 RAM H97-PLUS Motherboard TX650 psu So lately my games been kinda stuttering, mainly newer games such as Resident Evil 2, Darksiders 3, Monster Hunter World for example. This is at any setting regardless of high or low. I had this build made in 2015...

I got 4 sticks of RAM. Each one being 4gb. I did not overclock anything.

Hello everybody, so below are my specs. GTX 970 i5-4690K CPU 16 GB DDR3 RAM ASUS H97-PLUS Motherboard Corsair TX650 PSU I had this build made in Jan, 2015. So here is my issues. Alot of my games lately have been freezing up randomly (at least the more intensive games). Sometimes it would...