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I'm building my first gaming PC and after research I found that an i5 processor will do the job just fine, but I read some stuff about DirectX 12, which says it might need the capabilities of an i7 processor, but I don't know the veracity of those claims. I don't really mind paying the 100$ or...

thanks, I'll talk to my friend and see what he thinks. Thank you all.

I'm now building a PC for a friend and he wants to play at ultra settings 1080p 60fps. I know that 2 SLI gtx 970 will do that for games like the witcher 3, but for how long will it be able to handle those settings on demanding AAA games ? His condition was that he doesn't really want to pour...

thanks for everything guys ! it's my first PC build so I'm not super confident yet about all that.

I'm shopping for a new, kind of high-end, PC build (GTX 980 ti, i7 4790k, etc.) and I noticed that amazon had the best prices, at least in Canada, compared to newegg, which I used to believe was the best place for PC parts shopping. So is amazon reliable ? Do they really have the best prices or...

thanks, for future proofing purposes I'll probably get a 850w PSU, although I don't plan to SLI gtx 980 TIs just yet.

thank you everyone for your answers, I'll start building now, being confident I'm not throwing money out the window making a bad build !

I plan on building a high-end PC, I already did my research for the parts I want, but I still have some questions. Here's how it looks for now : Case : phanteks enthoo pro CPU: Intel Core BX80646I74790K i7-4790K Processor Motherboard : MSI Z97S SLI...