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If you have a solid-state drive, you should try to avoid using more than 75% of its capacity. It will slow down as you fill it up and you should never fill one to max capacity. They do nothing for games except decrease loading times. The money you would spend on a 500gb or 1tb I would put...

You can run older games fine and with high settings. Todays games. I would say yes at 1440p. Not at max settings though. Max settings might run you between 25-45 FPS. Depending on what settings you have turned on. Such things like AA ect.

I would choose the 1440p monitor as games look better, and when not gaming you have a beautiful large high resolution desktop. Mind you though. You did not say what GPU you had. So make sure yours can run it.

If you want the straight poop and nothing else. Medium settings at 1080p is the best you are going to get out of your rig with that ram, CPU and GPU. You may have to adjust some settings on different games like between call of duty and grand theft auto V. Hope I was able to help.

That depends on your cooling needs. You can put in 5 fans. You would hook up to all fan headers on your motherboard. Then plug the remaining fans into the molex connector on your Power supply. Most builds can get away with 3 really good CFM rated fans.

Well seeing as you don't have a K rated CPU. That board is fine. Everything on the build looks good as well. Question though. Do you need an SDD? What purpose are you going to need it for?

You will see some performance increase. You are talking about 2 cores vs 4 core. If you want to see a side by side comparison go here. It will compare both CPU's http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-870-vs-Intel-Core-i3-540

The first one on the list is compatible with your motherboard. The second one is not. The second CPU is an LGA 1366 socket and your motherboard is LGA 1156 socket. As for buying computer parts used. It is like anything else. You hope the user treated his part with care and have to hope for the...

I would go with the Deep Cool. The cooler master will cool the cpu about 2.3 degrees cooler, but at the price of a louder fan. This link compares coolers and both of yours are on the list. So take a look and it can help you chose. If you don't mind noise go with the Cooler master...

Yes the GTX 960 will work with that rig.

Great buys. Let us know how it works out for you.