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You can run them both at the same time, however you will not be able to enable SLI. You can use one for physx and one for graphics computing in games but you wouldn't notice too much of an fps difference. You can also plug more monitors into the other card if you desired, and could use both...

Yes it should be fine as long as your corsair is at least 80+ bronze rated (you should check) and has enough pci power connectors. CX/CS series should be fine. I ran 2x660s and an i5 with a 550W corsair bronze 80+ psu and even though it was a bit noisy under full load (pretty close to limits I...

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_980_PCI-Express_Scaling/7.html Here are some interesting benchmarks, the scaling effects I would say would be slightly worse for 980ti as it will likely use slightly more bandwidth but should be similar. So about 3% fps loss from 16x - 8x at most...

As someone who has tried mixing different brands of ram with the same voltage/clock speed/latency and having a hard time trying to get them to be compatible with each other I do not recommend mixing brands. The best solution would be to get the same stick again as it will be much more likely...

The motherboard will likely drop the gpu to 8x to accommodate the additional pcie usage, so it should work and it is unlikely that 8x will bottleneck the gpu for gaming. Hope this helps!

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Battlefield-3-Spiel-18708/Specials/Battlefield-3-Multiplayer-Tipps-CPU-Benchmark-1039293/ interesting cpu benchmarks in bf3, can give you some idea of how much what you are buying will give you.

Although a q6600 should be able to play hl1/hl2 variants very comfortably, which would suggest something else is at fault? q6600 should be able to play bf4 at around 30fps on lowest (at least mine did before upgrading), but I think it is safe to assume that upgrading the cpu/mobo will fix your...

If it isn't overclocked and you are using the 212 EVO you should expect much lower temperatures. I run a similar setup with the same cooler and at stock clocks my cpu maxes at around 60C under 100% load. Although 80C is fine for 4790k I would suggest resitting your cooler using a minimal...

Great thankyou!

Hi all, I have recently reinstalled windows after installing a mx200 ssd and adding another ram kit and noticed that my cpu will now not power down to its low idle states anymore. CPUZ shows multiplier radios of (8-38) as expected and I have tried enabling and leaving on auto the EIST and C...

Maybe something like this: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2T9GW Included psu which you missed out and took cooler off which you shouldn't need if not overclocking. Downgraded cpu to 4670k and upgraded gpu to 760. You could even downgrade to 4570/4670 non k version to save 5-25$.

It is pretty balanced. You could save money by getting a less powerful psu (450W), and you should get a 2x4GB DDR3 kit instead of 1x8GB so you can utilize dual channel.

Yes, you could stream LoL with much lesser hardware than this if you have the internet for it.

It is likely that there is just little airflow onto the cards, the heat from the bottom one will raise the temperature of the top one, as its fan intake is close-by. I had the same situation with 660s and managed to getting the top one from ~80C to running at ~73C by having a fan blowing...