Recent content by Mike Friesen

The PSU is good enough. For a lot of games that i3 is going to be a bottleneck. Anandtech has a wonderful bench tool that can let you see how bottlenecked certain games are with certain cpus, although it doesn't have everything http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1065 . If you play certain games...

I'm with USAFRet. You don't want XP. Try to go with win7; it's good; although I'm not sure on the details of downgrading.

Definitely GPU; that i5-6600K is a beast; you'll get way more of a fps boost from a GPU upgrade. (Although a gtx 960 is still significantly more powerful than what I've got haha)

Hi, a friend gave me a 2010 macbook pro that would crash upon boot in hopes that I could repair it. It wouldn't boot to the desktop, but we could still get into disk utility, and it showed the laptop's hard drive was corrupted or not working properly. I tried to repair the disk but the disk...

Those are about the cheapest used parts you can buy. Used parts are cheaper. You could pick up a used monitor for maybe $50 locally, other than that you could look for old pc's being sold for cheap. Personally, I'd go out and try to get that extra few bucks to get these parts. Definitely go...

Looks really solid build. Kudos, covertedconsolegamer.

Why I love Tom's? Tom's has turned me into a PC enthusiast, and provides consistently good, informative reviews on anything inside a PC. Thanks, Tom's.

I would hope that he means that quests will have many different paths - you head into town, help a woman escape from the guards, and that prevents you from doing the "help the guards capture female vampire" quest. However, if collecting 3 troll's eyes prevents you from going and killing...

I am very excited to see how this turns out. In the early dev stages, I was hoping that it would be made real; Google was behind it, but the Google glass thing has kinda disappeared, and I figured this would too. But a roadmap with a release this year makes me think differently. Kudos, Google.

Something like this maybe? I think i5, r9 280 is pretty good performance without sacrificing too much on on the non-performance components. PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BmwyZL Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BmwyZL/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Core...

Yes, it would run CS:GO. Yes, and btw most people around here like to use PCpartpicker. (http://pcpartpicker.com/) It is very nice :) btw, go with a caviar blue 1 tb drive for ~$50. Much better. And if you aren't overclocking, a i5 4590 (non-k) will perform the same and be cheaper. The r9...

If your budget is $1200, you can do a little better than a i5/gtx660 build. PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VTZzGX Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VTZzGX/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Newegg) Motherboard...

If you haven't bought the hdd, I'd go with a $55 caviar blue 1 tb drive. But yeah it looks great