Recent content by DrewHoo

This is a great point. Chrome will eat your RAM alive. I actually just--a few minutes ago--completely logged out of Chrome to see if FF is any better. That's interesting that Civ 5 will utilize more RAM. I've been playing it both on a desktop (16gb RAM) and laptop (4gb RAM). There are other...

Responding to a few other misguided ideas in this thread: CPU temp pretty much does not matter if you aren't overclocking, so don't worry about it. Same for GPU temp. I'm only one data point, but I've done the research to make sure my own hot-running rig is safe. The following factoid will...

The 970 series motherboard is unnecessary--you could go cheaper than that. However, I would go with an Intel proc, since single core performance is going to be more important for the majority of your tasks. This article will give you some context for that assertion...