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It's either going to be an issue with the slot itself (like a hair or dirt between gpu and socket), or a bios issue. Try reseating the gpu, and try resetting bios back to defaults and see if it helps. last resort would be to use the lower pcie x4 slot on your board, which would give 99%...

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Yes, but consider the GT1030 instead

There's no point upgrading the motherboard without also upgrading the CPU - hence why when you talked about upgrading the motherboard I just assumed you meant mobo + cpu Replacing a working motherboard with another motherboard on the same socket would be a lot of expense and time (you would...

You will not see any real improvement going from an A8 to an 860k, they're both quad core CPUs with a similar clock speed.

Don't buy an AMD A10. You should be able to buy a pentium g4560 system for a similar price. The zotac 1050 is slightly better but both are good and will perform very similar

Depending on what motherboard you have you should be able to overclock the q8300 by raising the FSB

What is your current cpu?

I wouldn't be overly concerned with it failing, boards can last a very long time tbh Based on your usage i think an upgrade to an amd ryzen system plus a solid state hard drive (ssd) would be a really decent jump in performance. An 8 core ryzen 7 1700 or even a 6 core ryzen 5 1600 would stomp...

it really depends on you, your usage, etc. There aren't that many games or programs that would struggle on a 2500k, despite it being 6 years old now

So its an asus essentio cm6830 motherboard. Cant find a lot of info on it online. Fans - you can plug 4 pin fans into a 3 pin header, they will just run at 100% if you do. Alternatively you could either buy a fan controller, or a fan splitter cable. Front panel headers - look toward the...

Windows 10? HDD or SSD?

The cpu (core 2 quad Q6600) and ram (6gb) are both enough for 30fps on gta5, but your graphics card (9800gt) is very weak and will need an upgrade to play gta5