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I have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-GAMING 3 motherboard can I run my MSI R9 380 gaming 4g in the PCI express 3.0 x16 (x8) slot? It covers up 2 of my PCI slots that I need if it's in the PCI Express 3.0 x16 (x16) slot. Only using the one video card. Not doing crossfire.

In some games I get frame dips from 60 fps straight to 55 fps and causes the game to freeze and stutter for a second and has become extremely annoying. A reddit post (link below) solved it and many commented success. I was wondering, mainly because I am worried I will completely ruin my PC, if...

I currently have an msi a88x g45 gaming MB which no longer works, so I need a new mb... I want to be able to upgrade my cpu in the future so an mb that can support a better cpu than the one I currently have. MB-MSI A88X G45 gaming CPU-A10 7850k GPU-MSI geforce gtx 970 PSU-EVGA 850W B2...