Recent content by TechShark

Get a better PSU, the CX series are tier 4 and known to be shitty and fail, and their capacitors are only rated at 30°c. Also, if you are using it for anything other than gaming I reccomend getting a 120gb ssd and putting windows on it. It makes the system so much faster.

The drivers will probably be compatible, all of the drivers I tried on w7 worked on w10

Argue like hell. If u used PayPal try to get a refund with that. A GPU shouldn't just fail like that.

My choice would be the r9 280x. It uses more power and is hotter but is quite a bit more powerful. Also take into consideration how ubisoft games are optimised even worse on AMD. If you do get the 960 make sure to get the version with 4gb of vram.

Is it just arma that performs badly? I've never played it because of all these threads saying how badly it runs on fx processors.

They are good, one of my regrets after buying the gtx980 is not looking into 290 crossfire.

There were some dx12 rumour about it

You probably want to go for something with either 1080p 144hz or 1440p with that GPU. You could also try something with G-sync, they sound interesting. What is your budget for the monitor?

Umm. Virus scan?

Just my opinion on it, but for the PSU go for the best you can afford. The PSU is one of those things that isn't dependant on another part. Get a decent 750w and it could last you for a long time, especially with the way nvidia's power consumption is going.

Also is there any radiator brand that is recommended? There is a magicool 240mm for £30 and a watercool 240mm for £60 I've read a bit more. I think I'm starting to understand this.

One more question, instead of having a backplate wouldn't it be much easier to has some sort of support holding the graphics card up? I was so worried when I first put the 980 in and it sagged a bit, but so far it has been fine.

Just to confirm, is this what you were talking about? https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-411-EK Edit: Nvm saw your latest post.

Yeh, thanks. The GPU block is about £80, and I haven't looked much bit I assume the pump is about £60ish. It is a decent amount. Anyway, thx for the help. I will try to read more online.

The GPU block is around the £80 mark but the pumo is also a similar price. I will look at overclockers and they to read more about it. Thanks :D