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12g will be more than enough

It really doesn't matter too much about latency and frequency, Linus has covered this in a video about DDR4, but the principles will be the same for DDR3.

UPDATE: Just changed the thermal paste to Arctic Silver 5, and the temperatures have dropped by almost 20 degrees on load and idle. The stock paste wasn't fully covering the GPU chip!! There was also visible damage to components on the PCB itself, solidified plastic droplets where it had melted itself was common! However it still works fine and after benchmarking using Unigine Heaven, I had temperatures fluctuating between 76-80 degrees immediately after application. As the new thermal paste has a long curing time, the temperatures will only decrease thankfully! Thanks all for the help.

I highly doubt it would bottleneck it

@spidsepttk Yeah, I have a Asus Maximus Ranger VII mobo which I have checked and definitely has a gigabit lan port, and I'm measuring the speed through Speedtest.net. To measure the actual connection speed, I'm using the Network and Sharing Center utility in Windows

So this is a bit of a strange one to me! I have a gigabit router and switch and my connection on my pc runs from my gigabit lan port to the switch, to the router using Cat 6 UTP - basic stuff. So in theory, gigabit connection right? Wrong. I seem to only be able to get 100Mbps maximum. I have tried manually changing it to 1Gbps full duplex, but the connection drops and I lose all network connectivity. I have also used Windows tool for checking the cables for errors (I made them up myself) and used a seperate physical tool - no errors were found. My brothers PC is connected directly to the same Switch using Cat 5e UTP, and gets gigabit connection? I found this very strange, so I used his PC on my connection (put it in my room and wired it up) and it still said 100Mbps (ruling out a dodgy lan port). I took my PC into his room, and got a gigabit connection. So surely there must be something up with the wires? I have logged into both the Switch and Routers online management, and the Switches ports are all set to Gigabit, so this is all very strange. My cable runs are less than thr 100M limit, and at each end of the cable running from my downstairs switch to my upstairs PC is plugged into a single port junction box. The cable runs through the wall, and a foot or so away from power cables, could this be causing enough attenuation to limit the bandwidth to 100Mbps? My usual Speedtest.net stats are around 65Mbps download and 5Mbps upload with around 13 ping. So not terrible scores, but obviously if I can improve it, why not? I have exhausted every option I could think of, and I'm wondering if any of you people can think of anything I have missed?

Good idea, i'll definitely try that. My case is an InWin GT1. Not the best, but it does the job to a decent standard. Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the response @Pohernori I have 5 case fans in a setup as follows, the front two are intakes, the rear one is an exhaust, and the two topside ones are exhausts too, any suggestions for this? If this isn't the issue, then it must be the card itself. I have considered taking the air cooler off and replacing the thermal compound, and seeing if that works. I've even considered putting a water block on it too! But then I thought that it wasn't worth spending that sort of money on a card that i'm looking to replace so I didn't bother.

First post so hi everyone! I currently run a single R9 280x, which runs absolutely fine on high presets at 1080p. My biggest issue with it is the thermals, i've ran Speccy in the background and seen it reach as high as 94° in games such as GTA V. I understand these cards are made to run hot, but that's too hot for my liking! Also, I am fed up with the horrible drivers with AMD that never work and always make me blue-screen. So I was definitely considering the new GTX 1070 or 1080 as a replacement. (Trying to avoid AMD as best I can) I want to futureproof, so would I get better value out of a 1070 or a 1080? And which vendor is the best for your reccomended option? Obviously the 1070 would need to be replaced sooner, but how much sooner? Is the 1080 worth the extra £150 or so? Thanks all!