Recent content by knobgoblin

The R9 380 4GB model is pretty nice for 1080p gaming, and the bottleneck wouldn't be too awful, assuming you have a decent motherboard to go with the Athlon.

Don't just reinstall Windows 10! I'd look at getting an application called HitmanPro and cleaning your drives up that way. It practically does all the work itself, you just need to give it the go-ahead and it'll do everything you need to maintain your PC. Here's a link in case you're wanting to...

Easily a 10 for what you're doing. Definitely a solid build. Rock on!

Yo. Well, you might want to get a 600w PSU, considering the stock GTX 970 peaks at a little over 300w under heavy usage. You're probably going to be using around 450-500w all together under heavy stress (say when you're running a game like GTA V or Crysis 3 @ 1080p max settings), and it's always...

What's your temperature under load with the new CPU cooler? AMD CPUs (especially the FX series) can really run hot and slow things down. Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 both use Nvidia Gameworks as well, so you might want to try turning TXAA, Hairworks, Godrays, Bokeh, etc., off or set them to low...

Hey guys, just asking to see if I can upgrade my (OEM) MSI 2AE0 motherboard with the Athlon X4 760K CPU. I'm looking to give my old HP Pavilion 500-164 (with most of its guts) to my little brother, who recently wanted to get into PC gaming. The PC came with an A8-6500 pre-installed, but I wanted...