Recent content by Watsonator

I was debating between these two cards and I am going to pay a little more for the superior 970, even with the price difference and wanting the game bundled with the 780 I think I would still go for the 970 for the performance increase.

$1200

And what about an aftermarket CPU cooler? I'm thinking if I go with that intel i7-4790K @ 4.0GHz I'll probably need something right?

@logainofhades I do like that build quite a bit, if I raised my price limit to about $1050 or $1100 do you think this build would be better for a little bit more money? I would also really like some streamers' opinions on using i7 versus i5. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant...

Thanks guys, that actually helps me a lot, I was really wondering about i5's for streaming and was a little concerned it might not be quite enough.

Updating with my current list that clocks right in at $1000 USD. What do you think about this? Any way of shaving off a few bucks? PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X...

Hello everyone, It’s time for me to upgrade again, which I haven’t been able to do in years. My budget is around $800-$1000, a big enough range for some wiggle room if needed. I want to be able to run a lot of the newer games like Shadow of Mordor (not necessarily on Ultra, I know this game is...

Ok so I moved into college about five days ago and everything has been going well other than this internet. My dorm doesn't allow a wireless connection so I connected my new laptop to the ethernet port in the wall. The web-browsing works great and the downloading is amazing (about 1mbps/sec)...