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Graphics card is the only thing that you will need to consider updating drivers for. For all other components, it usually isn't recommended that you change the driver from the one that installs automatically.

A high degree of historical accuracy is probably asking too much from a Battlefield game. How could they possibly make such a game yet still satisfy the preferences of their core demographic...still, the end product looks like absolute dog-shit. The game appears to be just one big clusterfuck...

If you don't already have the cables that came with your monitor, yes. What cables do you have now? Older monitors have a DVI cable which may be a bit more difficult to find new. Otherwise, a HDMI cable can be found cheaply in many stores.

Yep, those are all good choices. However, the GTX 970 would only be a good choice if it was being sold for significantly less than $200. The non-reference RX 480 cards might actually perform as fast as a R9 Nano when overclocked, which is faster than a GTX 980 and pretty impressive for the...

ATX is just the overall design and size. Each motherboard will have a specific socket that only some CPUs will be compatible with though. Your motherboard has a AM3+ socket so it will only fit AMD FX series CPUs. A motherboard with a LGA 1151 socket will only fit Intel's Skylake CPUs. I've got a...

Yea, the 980 is a terribly overpriced card, probably the worst of all last gen. I had wanted to buy one, but couldn't justify the price. The GTX 1060 6GB should be as fast as a 980, will come with more VRAM, and will be a fraction of the price. Some of the AIB RX 480 boards will almost certainly...

For the GTX 1070 to be worth the money that you payed for it - yes, the CPU, Mobo and RAM would need to be upgraded. If you didn't upgrade the other components, you would be paying $350-400 for a GPU and getting a $180-200 level of performance, doesn't make sense. I think you will have to...

It seems like the current console gen will linger for several more years at least, so I would wager that your GTX 1080 build will run most any game at ultra settings for a very long time. You should check out some of those G-sync 1440p monitors if you don't already have one - the build is...

I totally overlooked the need for DDR4 with Skylake CPU/Mobos - yea you're going to need new DDR4 RAM. 650W should be enough for a single GTX 1080. If you ever want to setup a two-way SLI, you will probably need to upgrade to a 750-850 Watt PSU. That really sucks that the 6700K doesn't...

Well, in this video, the FX 6300 is preventing the GTX 1070 from reaching more than 40-60% usage. The guy is getting 30-40 FPS in GTA 5 when he should be getting 90-100+ FPS on average with ultra settings. He concludes that the bottlenecked GTX 1070 is performing about as fast as a GTX 960. With...

That is a pretty monstrous rig you are building - it will be lots of fun I'm sure. What is your power supply model/wattage? Sounds like you got things under wraps, but a crappy PSU can be the Achilles Heel of any PC. Also, what sort of monitor do you have? Your build will produce 100+ FPS at...

Here is a decent review of the RX 480: http://www.pcgamer.com/radeon-rx-480-review/ A much more comprehensive review: http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-r9-rx-480-8gb-review,1.html Across 15 games, it only beat out the GTX 970 in performance rather than the GTX 980 that many...

It wouldn't have to be fictional if the story was centered around female Soviet soldiers during WW2. 800 000 women served in the Soviet Armed Forces between 1941 and 1945. Soviet women were commonly enlisted into front-line roles (eg. snipers, combat medics, fighter and bomber pilots...

If this game was even slightly historically accurate, I personally would not want to see female combatants in MP as I would find it to be fairly immersion breaking. Female combatants were not just rare, they were unheard of in the armed forces of the era. A Russian Women's Battalion is hardly...

I am just guessing about this, but we will find out for sure on Wednesday. $200 to $229 is a 12.6% increase in price...I really doubt the 8GB version will be 12.6% faster. If you factor in the fact that your CPU will bottleneck a RX 480 to some extent, spending more on extra VRAM that might...