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Despite what power is on paper, the PS4 is a closed ecosystem. Developers know exactly what they're building for, the strengths and weaknesses, and have greater access to the hardware than what most PCs - with their reliance upon drivers and libraries - would allow. As a laptop, the GPU is less...

Most games are not yet fully optimized for more than two cores, though that is likely to change in the coming months. My recommendation would be the G3258. It's a capable little performer, but more importantly it also makes use of the same socket as the more powerful 4xxx series chips. If you...

One is for general control, the other is for LED lighting effects. I, and the manual from my keyboard, would recommend both be connected.

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Assuming the system in your signature is the one that you run the test on, A quick search on the benchmark records for 3d mark shows that the top score for this CPU/GPU pairing is 8,123. That's with a hefty overclock though, and quickly skimming through suggests that most scores above 7,000 -...

If you are intending to build a little box solely - and I mean solely - for the web then I would recommend Linux for practicality if nothing else. It would save the cost of an OS, and that's a chunk saved on the build straight away that can be pocketed or reallocated depending on what you're...

I wouldn't, to be honest. You've a graphics card in the system, so won't benefit from the enhanced Intel Graphics on the newer chip and in general a processor upgrade will not see increased performance in games compared to upgrading the GPU. The question you need to ask yourself is what you...

Swap is a designated section of the storage drive - HDD/SSD - that Windows will use if the RAM ever becomes full. In the old days, that was how we'd know if we had enough RAM or not. As you can imagine, the swap file is much, much slower than RAM and will cause things to grind to a halt...

From the sounds of it, the language has been set to United Kingdom during the installation process. All that you'll need to do is open your settings and set the language to English (United States), then remove the former one. This can be done either by using Cortana - search for 'region and...

Out of interest, is there anything preventing you from doing a full format/reinstall? As an in place upgrade, it is likely that any previous registry entries or hooks would remain - else there would be issues making use of anything previously on the machine. I suppose it is possible that...

One of the much touted aspects of DX12 is that it allows for shared memory when using multiple cards, and as its included with W10 I'd point the finger at that. However, to my knowledge the game needs to be designed around DX12 before seeing this benefit. It could be that the Nvidia driver, and...

I've always been partial to an AIO water cooling block myself; there is an argument over noise and the obvious leak risk but I've never had trouble with either. I've a H100i GTX hooked up, and it's practically silent and keeps the processor at a 25c idle. As stated above, large air coolers can...