Alphinon

Razer Blade- im currently in school, and my laptop now isnt strong enough to fit on nicely (i want to make videos).

It's not worth it.

Also can be useful to stop eye strain as well, as the blue light can cause pain on some people.

You can enable / disable it on most monitors, so don't let that sway you too much.

Yes, it is pretty much flux without all the driver screwery.

I have the 25UM57, a 25" 21:9 ultra-wide monitor, and the amount of hate thrown at them is a bit unfounded. I sit an arms-length away from the monitor, which I am sure is normal, and moved from a 24" 1080p monitor as a primary to the ultra wide as a primary and the 24" BenQ as a secondary monitor. They are smaller then you would think- I initially thought I would hate the monitor for being so small height wise, but I love the ultra wide. It might take a bit getting used to, but I love the monitor and wouldn't second guess purchasing another.

Basically - the heat energy needs to go somewhere. Say for example, we have two hot plates, both running at 80c. One has a fan blowing across it, the other does not. Heat plate #1 does not have a fan blowing air across it / away from it, meaning that it will dissipate the heat slower, and as such the plate it self will be hotter. Plate #2, whilst generating the same amount of heat as #1, has a fan blowing air across it- meaning the heat from the plate is moved around the room, and the plate itself will run at a cooler temperature. Very primitive, but should be simple enough. Basically, aftermarket coolers create the same amount of heat, but the card itself is generally cooler as the heat is transferred away from the card itself faster. Only way to decrease heat on the same board is reduce load / underclock, as water cooling will still spread heat.

Any word / guesses on pricing? Going to skip on a founder edition but am 99% sold on a 1070, probably MSI.

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Sounds silly, but make sure that your GPU fans are actually running at 100%- even if software shows it, have a physical peek and see if you might need to lubricate the fans.

The 390x is a fairly powerful card- the 390 and 390x have noticeable performance differences- it pulls the same FPS as a 980 in GTAV at 1440p, and it is generally cheaper. It is more powerful than the 290/390 cards, and is generally around the same performance as the 290x, with more RAM, so it should perform better at higher resolutions. However, I would recommend holding out until next generation in a few months if you can- the new cards should be really powerful, and even then, you will be able to get last gen cards cheaper.

Probably my monitor sadly- ultrawide sure ain't cheap.

Doubt it has been blocked, but one of the ways that I used a while ago was using Google Translate and translating the websites into English.

DirectX 11 - Don't expect many mainstream games utilising DirectX 12 for a while.

You are not going to have any luck finding a good, cheap, tenkeyless backlit membrane keyboard.