Rapthorne

I'm aware that the dust isn't a direct factor and it is more to do with temperature, yes.

Pretty sure g2a deals with hacked and pirated codes, I would be very careful where you source codes from

Today I learned the importance of canned air and how much of a bane to performance dust can be. I've owned my PC for almost 3 years now and never really taken the side panel off for dusting (never had the time or considered it important enough to bother with). Today I finally did it, and the sheer difference in performance is staggering. Where before my computer was taking a few seconds to perform such basic tasks as opening chrome and loading up steam, it's now near instant. I really was totally shocked by the massive difference it made, and it got me wondering if Linus had made any videos regarding performance of systems and benchmarking before and after cleaning out. I'd really love to see the performance increase in hard data between a dusty system that's not been cleaned out in a while and a freshly cleaned system

what aspects of GW2 were causing bottlenecks? are we talking massive wvw zergs, world bosses, or what?

Won't the screen being directly recorded have a high impact on the cpu usage anyway? I'd imagine in an actual use case (no recording) the cpu usage would be much lower would it not?

60 fps is all I want. Anything I get at this point will be an upgrade. My current pathetic excuse for a system: AMD Athlon x4 740, 8gb DDR3 ram, R7 240 GPU. (had no job at the time I bought it and was far more ignorant about hardware components than I am now) This thing barely hits the 20 fps mark in anything even remotely nice looking. I'm not looking for extreme performance, just a massive upgrade to what I currently have. 60fps 1080p gaming is my ideal, I don't need or want anything particularly fancy or extreme

I have a strict budget, I need to cheap out somewhere, and for gaming I know the cpu isn't as big a factor (for now) when it comes to gaming performance

My aim here is 1080p gaming at minimum 60fps on high/ultra for current/near future release titles and MMORPG's such as Guild Wars 2, Final fantasy XIV, Elder Scrolls Online, etc Will the i5 6400 be acceptable for gaming when coupled with a GTX 1070? If so, what is the minimum wattage psu I can use (just for now, to upgrade later due to budget restrictions). My other question is do I really "need" a high end motherboard for simple gaming? or can I cheap out and save myself a little by going for a b150 board instead of a z170? Will this impact game performance?