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This thread is like 3 years old :pt1cable: I don't have the Alienware system anymore and have built a PC with a 4790k and gtx 980 a while back. I can't really provide any help on this since I haven't had the system for over a year or two now :P. EDIT: Reading all these questions I was asking...

A new graphics card would be much better than an xbone, a GTX 1060 or even 1070 would be a very nice upgrade for you (around the price of a Xbox)

So currently i have a GTX 960 and I'm not too impressed with performance (too late to return). I'm wondering if a 970 or 980 would be a good upgrade from the 960. Both cards are within budget and the 980TI isn't. Would the upgrade be worth it? Any advice is appreciated.

Yes I am looking in global settings for DSR Factors but it is non existent,the next option under CUDA-GPUs is Maximum pre-rendered frames

I recently bought an EVGA GTX 970 and i was hoping to play some older games and try out some modern games with dsr, the option doesn't exist for me in nvidia control panel. I'm running latest drivers (also on win 10) and have reinstalled them trying to fix this. (Full specs, i7 3770, 8GB RAM...

COD Advanced Warfare is a pretty demanding game, atleast for a low range laptop gpu (no offence) and that gpu also uses DDR3 ram which may be a limiter also as most gpus use GDDR5

No it shouldnt

Considering that's a reference design cooler, yes it will run hot if under under full load