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Yeah, I saw that. However I don't really care about the technical details of it as long as I'm not poisoning myself and games run fine. My 7970 kept crashing with terrible artifacting and finally stopped POSTing altogether, and now it works great with no issues. Still works as well as the day I bought it and this is about 8 months after fixing it with the oven.

The hype is real.

Makes sense.

That's why I used a toaster oven. Bought it for $7 at Goodwill and have used it to fix the GPU and some RAM, both work great now. Worth a shot for $7. I don't use it for food.

I see, wouldn't they just replace your old card then instead of forcing you to upgrade or is it a trade up kind of deal where you pay a little extra to upgrade?

Ever tried the oven method lol? My 7970 broke and I got it working no problem after popping it in the toaster oven for 8 minutes at 385 F or something

Sounds like a great deal to me. Although the 4460 for £100 might be slightly better price to performance.

Saw a post about whether the GTX 660 was still relevant and became curious. All answers are greatly appreciated.

Depends on how much cheaper. 1050 is $109 and is superior due to better driver support and newer architecture, but if you can find the 660 for half the price than it is definitely worth it.

I would go for something like an RX 470 (they are great especially if you can find them as low as $149 after rebates) and a new PSU, a 240 GB SSD wouldn't be a bad idea either.

I can't believe that I'm saying this but I would actually go for a pre-built PC for this use case. If you aren't planning on using a graphics card (therefore don't need a good power supply or case), you can probably get the same specs for about $100 cheaper if you buy pre-built. They aren't all that bad, plenty stable, just make sure you know the specs and are ready to uninstall some bloatware.

Just go with whatever CPU is the most readily available and cheapest. If you can find a 7700K for only $20 more than the 6700K, I'd say go for it, if not definitely go with the 6700K. It should be interesting to see how Zen performs as well. Pretty hyped about the Vega and 1080 Ti launch, we already know the ballpark of performance that the 1080 Ti will be in so at this point its just waiting to see exactly how competitive AMD will be. Hopefully very competitive so we see some major price drops.

I don't know much about machine learning but I'll try to answer the questions I can. 1. It is usually better to go with fewer cores and a higher clock, just don't go below a quad-core. Some applications can only utilize one thread at a time so the extra clock speed will do you a lot more good than 2 extra cores. However I do not know much about machine learning so more cores and a slower clock might be worth it, I would do some research. 2. Your GPU will probably be fine, many people SLI graphics cards with consumer boards (Z170) which works just fine, SLI will always have some efficiency loss however so don't count on 2x performance, more like 1.6-1.8x. 3. If you want to SLI, don't buy a 1060, it is not supported. Keep in mind that a single powerful GPU is always better than two weaker GPUs so get the best single GPU you can afford now (you can still SLI later if you want to). Also, wait for another couple days or so to see how AMD's new graphics card performs. Might be worth a buy and worse case scenario will at least cause Nvidea prices to drop a little.

That's a little higher than I'd be comfortable with, but the 9590 does run pretty hot so it should be OK. I would make sure you have the cooler attached properly just in case, one time my heatsink wasn't fully attached and temps went up to 85. When I got it attached properly they went all the way down to 35.

I'm not really sure then, maybe one of your system components is unstable (power supply or graphics card probably). Have you been overclocking?

Whichever is cheapest, even if it only has a single fan. I have the Zotac 1050 Ti mini with a single fan and the temps rarely go above 50 Celsius, which is extremely low for a GPU.

I wouldn't, your PSU is more than enough and should last you a few more years at the least. And it should help quite a bit in Blender.

Not a bad idea, however I wouldn't spend more than $80 after selling your 3570k though, because hyperthreading doesn't make too big of a difference in games. Will help if you ever plan on editing video though.

Go to your friends house, download on your laptop, then bring your laptop back to your house and transfer the Steam files from Steam/SteamApps, transfer the .acf file and the game files in the "common" folder.

For people who have nicer audio setups (speakers behind them, subwoofers, etc. and for mics).

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HWMonitor for checking temps while on desktop, Afterburner/Rivatuner for showing temps/usage while in game.

IMO, not worth the price to upgrade to a 3770K, I would just upgrade to 16 GB of RAM for now and maybe buy a new GPU after Vega comes out. Even if you plan on buying Nvidea, wait for Vega as all GPU prices will fall by a significant amount. Another option would be to SLI another 970 if you don't mind the power draw.

Are you playing in DX12 mode? I don't play BF1 but I've heard DX11 is much more stable.

Not sure if ReLive has one, it wouldn't be a bad idea to put FRAPS in the top right and Afterburner on the top left though, even if just to try them out.