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    I am buying a 980Ti First week of April but not sure which one to get?

    Hi everyone I have a question about 980ti I am going to buy one by the first or second week of April 2016. My system spec are i5 2400@3.1-3.4Ghz - G.Skill 16GB @ 18600Mhz- 240 GB ssd-2 1TB seagate 7200 HHD-Acer XB270HU bprz 27-inch WQHD NVIDIA G-SYNC (2560 x 1440 @ 144hz) Widescreen Monitor-...
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    Help!!!! New build or upgrade old pc?

    Sorry it took me so long to answer I work long weird hours. I checked my bios turbo boots setting and I am guessing the h77 chip-set is a non over clocking chip-set because I can not change the multiplier in my bios settings or any other boost setting for that matter. Anything else that I might...
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    Help!!!! New build or upgrade old pc?

    I was going to buy an i5 3470 or an i7 3770 for my pc because the Sandy-bridge i5 2400 doesn't support PCIe 3.0.So my question is this... Should I buy an Ivy Bridge cpu or save up the $556.97 for the new Intel Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5GHz LGA 1151 + ASUS MAXIMUS VIII HERO...
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    Im new to gaming pc need to know some things

    This is what I bought for my first build. I got an i5-2400 @3.1GHz on eBay for $100.00, ASUS P8H77m/csm MOBO on eBay for $69.00. Went to EVGA.com and bought an EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW+ GAMING ACX 2.0+ Part Number: 04G-P4-3978-KR for $359.99, EVGA 600W Power Supply Part Number: 100-W1-0600-K1...
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    Does the i5 2400 bottleneck the EVGA GTX 970 FTW+?

    I have an i5 2400, Asus p8h77m/csm motherboard, 16gb Gskill RAM 1333, EVGA 970 FTW+, EVGA 600 watt psu and a Seagate 1Tb hard drive. I play BF4, Titanfall, Need for Speed Rivals, Call of Duty Ghost, Metal of Honor Warfighter, And Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon to name a few of my games. I get between...
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    What would be a good LGA 1155 CPU to mate with my PNY 750ti 2GB OC GPU

    nikoli707 thanks for help but reason I want to upgrade CPU is when I play Games listed above my current CPU is maxing out at 92%to 96% usage and it shuts my game & GPU down. I was told to get an i5 4 core to help with this problem The only one I can afford and fits my current Mobo is the i5...
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    What would be a good LGA 1155 CPU to mate with my PNY 750ti 2GB OC GPU

    I went to same place I typed in i5 on the page that had mobo on it and they both have the same chipset Intel H67 Express. Different # on board but same board. Look where is say Acer Inc. on the mobo with the magnifying glass same # on board (IPISB-VR REV:1.01) So by that I assume both boards are...
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    What would be a good LGA 1155 CPU to mate with my PNY 750ti 2GB OC GPU

    I went to CPU-Upgrade and typed in my Mobo my rigs spec are as follows: Mobo: Acer Aspire Predator SG50P.007 CPU: i3 2120 @ 3.3 GHz soon to be i5 2400 @3.1 GHz 6M cache LGA 1155 SROOQ GPU: PNY 750ti 2GB OC RAM: 6GB Current resolution: 1360x768, 60Hz OS: Windows 10 64bit I know I need to...
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    What would be a good LGA 1155 CPU to mate with my PNY 750ti 2GB OC GPU

    I have a i3 2130 @ 3.30 Ghz LGA 1155 and want to upgrade CPU so I can play BF4, MOHW, &COD Ghost any help would be nice I have a budget of around $130.00 to maybe $175.00. I have looked at Amazon, Newegg, TigerDirect, & Frys to name a few. I don't understand some of the technical information...