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Video Series: What can you desolder from your motherboard before it stops working  
 

Video Series: What can you desolder from your motherboard before it stops working  
 

@Chimras The FX 8320. You can overclock it to the speed of the 8370 without problems. 

Like @IAcKI said, I'd definetely go for the 8320. I got that CPU in my 2nd rig and was achieving a pretty good 4.7ghz on air without getting too hot. 

Video Series: What can you desolder from your motherboard before it stops working  
 

The Half-Life and Fallout Series.

Let's say it's good enough if you're not a total idiot or torrent things...

I think you have fried your motherboard. This is most likely the epoxy that holds your ICs, transistors or voltage regulators inside their black package. This stuff comes off whenn the chips get too hot or if they are shorted out.

Those are in ear headphones. The only thing they make you feel is disgust if they sound like most in ear headphones

Now I'm gonna install the old drivers...

Phew. I think I've gotten away with it for now...

IT's late and I'm both hungry and tired from shooting Scrapyard Wars (which by the way is an LTT series and will be airing ad-supported on YouTube very soon for your viewing pleasure).
 
But there are a few points to address and you've already been patient enough.
 
I said LMG content would always be free. This was poor wording on my part. There has always been content produced by me and my team that was not necessarily available on a free platform like YouTube.
 
These "The Boost" videos that we make on contract as a sales training resource for Intel, for example:
 
 
 
In much the same way, Vessel has contracted LMG the production company to create an original series for their platform. They bankrolled the whole thing, giving us an opportunity to make something that otherwise would have been too costly, and per the licensing agreement they own the right to exploit this content. It's their show until such time as they decide it's not anymore.
 
We played more of a "production company" role in this than we're accustomed to.
 
This could, and SHOULD have been communicated better, and for that I'm sorry. The community should have heard about this from us FIRST, and not from a random email newsletter, but I've been (and so has the whole team) absolutely busting ass to not only get Nerd Sports produced, but also make sure that we're keeping up with everything else that we've got going on including not having missed a single day of LTT uploads for something like 5 years..
 
With that said, quantity isn't everything, and I've noticed that not everyone has appreciated the LTT content as much as usual lately, but it's hard for me to tell if that's because they don't like our new direction (fewer reviews, and more exploratory or experimental videos) or if they just saw a video or two they didn't like and raised hell in the comment section - it wouldn't be the first time.. And I will say, too, that honestly if a couple of the videos felt rushed then it's probably because they were.. HOWEVER, the primary reason for the rushed videos was  the entire week we're taking off this week to film Scrapyard Wars Season 4, which will be premiering on Vessel sometime in the next few weeks or so, followed by a release on YouTube 1 week later, which is the standard agreement for OUR content that is paid for by LMG or our sponsors.
 
Nerd Sports was shot 40% during evenings and weekends with employees taking time in lieu later on when we hire some more staff or when things slow down a little. We were careful to avoid disrupting any of our other commitments because imo you guys deserve the best we can deliver.
 
Which is another point that was brought up in this thread - "How will LMG keep its commitment to maintain the pace and quality of the other content if they're making Nerd Sports or other contractual content?"
 
We couldn't. We're hiring.
 
I've never shied away from investing in more staff or better equipment or a better facility to make sure that we're doing our best for ourselves, each other, our sponsors and our viewers. If we play our cards right, absolutely everyone wins.
 
Nerd Sports has been a fantastic learning experience for us, and whether we continue the series with Vessel, create other completely different web series in the future, or just say "fudge it" and flip burgers from now on, we'll be able to do those things better than we could have without having done this.
 
So bottom line is this. I screwed up the way I communicated "LMG content", which was meant to be content funded BY Linus Media Group rather than content funded entirely by and licensed to a 3rd party, and I screwed up in a MUCH bigger way the LACK of communication about this project. Sorry guys.

Are your components running particularly hot? The HD 6950 is a pretty hot-running card. Also, an AMD 6-core processor is among the recommended specs for BF4. 

Your graphics card should be fine, but it's an FX 8150, an 8-core processor which is recommended...

I'd go to http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri to see which games you can run

@Jobbe03 It is not LMG content! It's content that belongs to Vessel, not the LMG team! It's the same with films. They don't belong to the actors...

This is a sata m.2 drive. It will not be faster than most regular SSDs. If it was PCIe, then go for it. 

@ApolloEleven If you're okay withh amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-SP550-240GB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1457512368&sr=1-3&keywords=240gb+ssd

@ApolloEleven If you're okay withh amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-SP550-240GB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1457512368&sr=1-3&keywords=240gb+ssd

@KeldonSlayer I didn't say torrenting things makes you an idiot. By idiot, I meant guys who click on any ad they can find. But you have to admit that there's a little risk innvolved in torrenting things.

Let's say it's good enough if you're not a total idiot or torrent things...

@KeldonSlayer I didn't say torrenting things makes you an idiot. By idiot, I meant guys who click on any ad they can find. But you have to admit that there's a little risk innvolved in torrenting things.

I see some empty space next to the CPU heatsink

Not really. RAM speeds don't matter that much. 
 Is your SSD nearly full (90% or so)?

I got an M.2-PCIe-SSD myself and I'm totally blown away by the speed of this tiny piece of hardware.