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Yeah, he's trying to be helpful and all, but I don't understand why he's trying to recommend you an AMD chip. ALL OF THEM are so far behind ANY Skylake i5 (even an i5-6400) that there is absolutely no reason to buy them! A lot of them are being beaten up by i3s! Even if you're only a casual gamer and don't need anything too powerful, the i5 will still reliably last you many years more. Don't get any AMD chip now because they're so useless compared to Intel chips (unless you don't have the money to spend.) It'd be better to spend more on something that lasts longer, you know? AMD's Zen might end up being pretty great, but until then don't count on anything from AMD unless it's a graphics card.

Nah didn't work...just decided to go for a core clock of 150Mhz and a memory clock of 700 because that's the best I can get without changing my voltage.

365.10 is the latest nVidia driver. It says GeForce GTX 950

My nVidia drivers? Yes, they are. I have version 365.10 installed.

I don't think my GPU is voltage locked, and I don't know how to solve this issue. This is my GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487156 My voltage slider is greyed out, unselectable, and stuck to the very left. i3-6100 GTX 950 8GB DDR4 Windows 10 64-bit

I don't actually think that's what the graph is meant to portray.

Source It's also far more power efficient and costs far less, apparently priced at $600. It's also been noted that we should be getting a GTX 1070 by June 10th for $379. If the performance claim is true, I think this could very possibly be another win for nVidia. I really don't know too much regarding Polaris. Either way, I'm happy to see that these cards did have substantial performance gains. It also seems twice as fast while performing some tasks, though it apparently has very nice performance gains in others too.

lmao, the LotR soundtrack too... Okay.

I'd be especially happy if they have an i7 equivilant, but perhaps that's a bit too optimistic.

AFAIK the i3-6100 doesn't bottleneck a GTX 980 Ti except for in the more CPU intensive games, but I'm sure the results would be very different on a higher resolution, yeah. I'd like to think that AMD's Zen CPUs could match at least an i5 performance-wise, and I think it's time I buying shit from Intel...

Since it's an upgrade and I'm in no real hurry, I'll probably earn the money to spend on whatever I can and should get my hands on. That being said, it may very well be a good idea to wait for Polaris because it's seeming pretty awesome and I think it might beat Pascal this time around (at least in price/performance if they don't beat Pascal's version of the 980 Ti.) I do have a 1600x900 monitor though, which I do think I should upgrade to 1440p when I get my new hardware, since I would basically be putting the hardware to waste if I did otherwise.

What do they boost the performance in? If it's just boot times and stuff I am not worried whatsoever.

WD Blue 1TB i3-6100 GTX 950 8GB DDR4 EDIT: Oh, I also feel like I might want to wait for Zen if you suggest upgrading my CPU... It's coming in a few months right?

I'm a bit confused and I want to figure out how I can set my installation up to only use HALF of my hard drive space because I want to dual-boot Windows 10 and Linux together. Any help would be appreciated, really. I'm trying to install Linux Mint through a Live USB stick. The version would be 17.3 Cinnamon.

Alright thanks. Not sure if I could find what brand/model of RAM I bought at first (I was planning on buying 8GB so I could buy another 8GB later, didn't want to run with 4 RAM sticks)