Recent content by James_deen

Thanx for prompt advices! My power supply is Aerocool XStrike 800W. I previously used r9 280x that's quite hungry card)) So I believe I would have no power issues. My case is some old mid tower Acer case, nothing special, with only one intake cooler. Usually it's open case. No need to change the...

Hi, fellows! I have doubts which way to go. Please help. I can buy used Asus GTX 980ti reference design card with 1 month warranty for 380 USD. New ones are 150 USD more, the same for new GTX 1070. Can't afford that price now. And second choice is a new Gigabyte 2-fan Gtx 1060 Gaming card for...

Thanks Ecky, Kenrickandbros, Mousegolf for your help!

Thanks for quick response. I have some additional questions. Where I live h97/b97 are of the same price. Almost. Starts from 90$. But there are cheap chipsets h81 and etc that starts from 40$. If I can't overclock, and as you suggested have to buy 8gb stick and use no more than 2 sticks at...

So I have taken i7 exchange deal plus 90$ cash. I don't want to exceed this summ, maybe 10-20$ more to spend on motherboard and ram plus cooler, because I've got CPU as oem. Can you suggest what's better to buy to run my new rig with no problems? There are h81/h85/b85 chipsets, also h97/z97...

I think you'd better go with gtx 970, you can find it quite cheap at EBay used (30% off of the price new) and not that expensive in stores, because of launch of newest gtx 1080/1070. You'll see very big performance improvements, in comparison to your 7950. Besides gtx 970 is not that hot, needs...

I've been googling a bit and found that acer veritron s480g does support Core2quad processors, so you can find any quad to upgrade your core2duo. And I found on one Russian website a selling advertisement of the same Acer veritron s480g with x5667 Xeon, so it can lead to that its possible to run...

Hi there! Currently I have 775 socket q8300@3000 with Asus gtx 970 mini. Most games play at about 30-35 FPS at ultra/highs. I have a budget of 270$ (max 300$) and my kid asking me to build something more powerful. Right now I can buy any of these variants, please advice what will be the best...

It depends on the motherboard you have. Name it, what model is it? As I know e5450 Xeon is quite cool and have base clock of 3Mhz, and if you have good motherboard and aftermarket cooler, you can overclock it to 4Mgz or a bit less. X5460 is better in the part of stock clock and can be...

Gingerbread, thanx for your answers! What if I intend to do new rig, what minimal budget I need and what minimal specs of hardware should I buy. To see big improvement over current setup? At least 60 FPS at ultra and in 1080p only (no plan for 2k/4K).

Well I just read some threads about such change and some people who put Xeon e5450 or similar over Core2quad mentioned that they saw quite good changes...One guy said that his GTA V that was stuttering with q8200 continuously stopped doing so after Xeon upgrade. And some similar examples I have...

Hi friends! My question is next: I have a q8300 Core2Quad CPU installed in Gygabyte P43-ES3G motherboard that support bus overclocking, three phase CPU power block, 6gb of DDR 2. Titan tower cooler that was told is quite enough to cool overclocked CPU, if it's important I'll check the model...

Thanks for your advice, but still confused...When will be new Pascal available? And if I want to play some titles now, which way to go?! ) I've been looking through YouTube videos with many 390x/970/980 benchmarks and comparisons, and despite I had r9 280x for a year or two, I can't say I was a...

Hi everyone! The title says all. In the place I live I have quite a big choice of cards, but I found three variants I intend to chose from. 1 - Zotac gtx 970 blower edition, looks like a reference. 333 bucks, 24 months of warranty. 2 - Asus Strix gtx 980 with DC2 two coolers edition. 468 bucks...

Thanx a lot. I'll try to save more money for Skylake.