Probably an Army of Asians

The internet requested that the R9 Nano be compared to the size of a banana, and that request was fulfilled promptly. 
 
http://gfycat.com/KindlyClosedFlee
 

You failed to consider the cost of extraneous hardware -- boards and coolers specifically. 

I love ghetto GPU cooling. Nice job!

Preface
Welcome to the second edition of How Overpriced is Alienware? If you haven’t read the first article, you can read it here, though it isn’t needed to understand this one. If you don’t already know, this is a price comparison with alienware products, what you can build for yourself, and what else you can buy. You can also get a build from ncix.com, but you can just add $50 to the custom build to get that. I will be comparing a high end and low end model of every alienware product, to give a general range of their value. For the custom builds, I will be including both an equivalent build, and also what I think would be ideal for the price of the alienware build. One thing to remember is that even if the prices are similar, the custom builds I will be including will have much more reliable parts, which will make them generally better options. A final note is that prices do change, but there will generally be a very similar build for the same price. So now that that’s all said, let’s start.
 
Note: The formatting went to hell when the forum updated :l

Alienware Alpha console
So we'll actually be starting with a tricky build here, as you can’t build a normal PC this small. Because of that, I’ll have the custom builds in the Silverstone sg13, but I’ll also have a zotac zbox for a better sized comparison. The GPU in the alpha is technically an 860m, but those are practically the same as a 750ti, so I'll be using one of those.
 
 

I think the 390 is a better value. 8GB of VRAM is nice to have so you know you'll never run out before your GPU gets outdated. I would recommend the 970 if you wanted to have a really small build or would have major problems removing heat from a case, but why not just go for raw performance since you have the space?
 
 
 
Actually not even then, according to JayzTwoCentz vid.

This should help:

I got tired of the EVGA 980 Hybrid cooler being out of stock. 
Before my OC was causing the GPU to overheat at 4K, 90C.
Now it's down to 60C. 
 
 

wut? It is easy I don't have an AMD GPU in my PC at the moment but is it something like, CCC - Displays - Enable Up scaling and away you go.

It's just not recomened, 
you are running a laptop grade resolution on a very expensive GPU
 
You would be better off getting a cheaper GPU and a better monitor

That card is fine at 1440p..... You might be better off getting a new monitor than a GPU.

Very overkill for 1366*768, you really need a better monitor.

It might end up being a mess. I personally removed the dried on stuff and applied my own paste for my 290s, just in case the corsair AIO Paste was conductive (not likely).

It wont help. the air around the chip wont conduct heat fast enough for a low ambient to help.

This is the best thing to do.

That video was absolutely cringe-tastic. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it reached new levels of "don't do this" and apathy never before seen. I wanted to yell at Linus so many times during the video that I lost count. I vote Luke should do it next time, he is quite good at performing tests professionally.
 
 
 
 
 
He didn't put the f*cking retention bracket back on, unbelievable.

My worst mistake must have been starting to invest into my PC. It is such a big money magnet and I haven't spent money on anything but electronics for the past 4 years.

I plugged a 4 pin floppy connector into a CD aux connector on a sound card when I was quite young. The blue smoke that made the sound card work escaped.

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Here's a good graph for it:

PCI-e 3.0 x2 = PCI-e 2.0 x4 in terms of bandwidth. 
So losing around 40% of your FPS in DiRT3Min sounds like a pretty significant loss. In Shogun, it's 20%. 
It just depends on the game, but there are games & cards that can be bottlenecked by PCI-e 2.0 x4.

3 > 2 therefore FRAMES! 
 
 
nah, it most situations it wont make a difference despite significantly higher transfer speeds. 

I'd love to see it, from someone that knows absolutely nothing about Linux I'd love to learn about it from Linus.

Hello! I would like to request a video series similar to the currently ongoing "iSwitched" series, but using some form of Linux (ie. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, CentOS (Personally, I recommend either Ubuntu or Linux Mint)). This (probably) won't even cost anything for a new computer because it is very easy to dual boot Linux with Windows on an existing computer.
 
I apologies if this is in the wrong section, I couldn't really find any that fit this post.

I'd still recommend the Pentium G3258. I mean, it's very cheap and upgrading down the road is very easy. The single core performance is outstanding too, it's a great CPU for emulation. I would've bought the Pentium G3258 and the Asus Z97 instead of the FX-6300 and Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 if it existed at the time.
 
I haven't had any mistakes so far, at least, none that are regrettable.

"Buy a Samsung phone"