sirbonneville

Reading this might help make the decision. A lot of the responses in this thread seem pretty clear
 

It's better to get the newer, better quality CX550M, which can be had for the same price:
https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Bronze-Certified-Modular-CP-9020102-NA/dp/B01B72W0A2/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1511383733&sr=1-1&keywords=cx550
This PSU comes with two 6+2 pin connectors (on one cable)

If your PSU only has one 6 pin PCIE, you should really consider if your PSU is enough to power said GPU.
There are adapters from 2x molex (4 pin peripheral, not to be confused with 4 pin EPS for your motherboard/CPU) to 6 pin adapter, but I have not seen them from 4 pin EPS to 6 pin PCIE.
I'm not sure about their quality and would be hesitant to recommend something like that.

Get the poor man some SSD. 

Also I'd like to say thanks an absolute ton for helping me out today! Without your help I would not have gone down the rabbit trail, and I likely would not have found that Dell machine. I really appreciate it. Thanks a ton!!

It's not really an upgrade, if you want to upgrade your CPU right now, save up for an i5-8400 or Ryzen 5 1600, or just get a used 4790(K) or 4770(K)

it may be hard to imagine with a 5820k + 1080, but budgets exist and some people can't go over them even if its justified. 

Read it as 480 8GB. The 480 to 580 isn't much of an improvement to warrant spending 200 vs 220.

will do. the condition is excellent. a quick dusting and washing and you wouldnt know it was used 

Try running CCleaner

okay so you got a few options:
 
1- Get a GTX 1070 and a 1440p monitor as your CPU is good enough (but not excellent)
then wait for next gen CPUs
 
2- Get new CPU, mobo and RAM now in addition to above, 6700k/6600k + ddr4
(id sell ur old hardware then)
 
 

which motherboard? .. do you currently have.

can you post the full specs of your current machine? and which resolution do you plan to game at?

Why the hell on earth would you need two RX 480s?
Are you working on a  big project related to Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning? 
You will never use all the power of two RX 480s..
Or you just want to get them cause you have the money? In other words, do you just want to show off with your new build?
 

I have head that the rx 480 will do better then the 1080. Dont know tho

Hi there sirbonneville
 
The guys gave you some excellent explanations and suggestions. 

My two cents on this: 
Gaming, for the most part, doesn't really rely on the storage's performance for anything else but the loading times (both initial and in-game) and the autosave times. FPS and graphics aren't affected at all so you will see the same game performance while playing regardless if you are doing this off a SSD or off a 5,400 rpm HDD. 

There are games such as MMOs and Open World games that will load your surrounding textures faster or smoother if you run them off a Solid State drive but that won't change the way your graphics are processed and placed on your screen by the CPU and GPU so you won't see better graphics or higher FPS. 
 
As the guys mentioned, heavy AAA games with long initial loading times and longer loadings between levels and cut scenes may load significantly faster, but if you don't really mind waiting the extra seconds, there's no real advantage in using SSDs in gaming. 
 
Regarding the capacity difference, you will notice that all storage drives appear a bit smaller in the OS due to the differences in counting bits to bytes. A 1TB HDD would typically appear as 931GB. 
 
I'd be happy to help with anything else if there are questions
 
Cheers! 
Captain_WD.

SSD wont make any performance difference in games compared to HDD. it only affects load times. even in open world games a HDD can keep up just fine.

That being said, on my next rig I'm going to have 2 Samsung 950 pros in Raid 0 for 1TB of that 3.5-4GB per second speed limit. not because I need it for my games, but because oh my god thats going to be awesome! #moremoneythansense

You won't see an FPS difference but menu opening timings and game load times will be much faster on an SSD. Think less than half the time.
 
Windows reads storage weird because it thinks one gigabyte is 1024 MB (it's 1000 MB on every other OS) but that's irrelevant. Windows 8 is not install on your system if you've had Windows 10 on your system for over a month or have run disk cleanup. 
 
You've probably got big programs and games and stuff on there taking up that space. You can upgrade to a 240GB drive and get some of your old storage back if you end up needing more.

All your downloads temporary files that sort of stuff (unless you moved it to hdd) can take up quite a bit of space.
 
Games will see a boost in loading times, thats it.
 
This can be important for open world games which constantly pull data from the drive or for when you cross certain zones.. But other than that it will not increase your fps or otherwise.
 
Try not to fill the drive as performance does degrade with more data but it'll still be plenty fast.

First thing I would try is see if your PC have a restore point from before the infection ocurred.
 
If that is not an option, you can make an antivirus bootable disk, boot from it and scan the system,. Or you could take the disk out of your PC, plug it in another system and scan it from there.

Can you get avast antivirus installed? If so, try a boot time scan.

dude, im on your blog thing and i love the pictures! 

yeah those are pretty sick! 
yeah i dont like instagram very much. i just hate selfies  
im uploading here:
https://500px.com/chriscross34

wouldnt be such a bad idea. i just got a bunch of really good old lenses. is 500pix free?

yes! definitely. get a squarespace or 500pix account and upload them there! they are very good. :3 do you want a link to my brothers photography page?