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I've heard that the performance is the same, but the memory stick will degrade faster if you only have 1x8gb instead of 2x4gb. Of course as you mentioned, 1x8gb is better for upgrading later.

well the 7870 card has 2 slots that you have to plug in to give it power. the 2 slots are 6 pins each (6+2pin is another kind). the power supply you chose I looked up only has 2x 6 pins by default. if you were to have crossfire, you would have 4x 6 pins needed, but your power supply would only...

You shouldn't need any extra cables. If you plan to ever run dual graphics cards (i.e. crossfire), you may want a level up power supply because the 650W only has 2x6+2 links and the 7870 uses both (e.g. you would need another 2x to add another card). It's not undoable but less of a hassle...

I always thought the comments that an overclocked x can approach y. They always seem to leave out what happens if y is overclocked! I don't have any real experience on the issue, but I don't think it's worth it. $30-50 for like half a tier upgrade, not gonna have much impact on performance.

I really appreciate the help but do you think any of those are specifically causing me problems? I don't see why any of those programs would cause an issue. If they want to access the internet, they should be able to without breaking my computer. netlimiter and utorrent are non-issues, i turn...

1. no there are multiple devices on the network, and its always been this way 2. its secured using wpa2 3. i have tried a wired connection, it still happened (although this was prior to the RMA of my motherboard). it's not every 4 minutes anymore, its more random now i think. I can try wired...

Stuttering happens even when I'm just web browsing, so CPU usage should not be a problem for anything. Temperatures are all within norm (<70 degrees even in load situations). Ethernet cable and another pcie wifi card tried, still an issue. Regularly do cleans with malware bytes, super...

Hi folks, first time poster, feel free to move this post to the appropriate board if needed. Built my computer almost a year ago and I've been having issues with stuttering (computer stalls for 1 second every few minutes). Audio is messed up during that time, keyboard and mouse jumps a bit but...