Tenadisic

Thanks! That first one is perfect and it'll be here Wednesday!

download an app called DDU, then launch it in safe mode, which means you should type msconfig then go to boot and check the box saying safe boot, and then ill ask if you want to restart, you can restart but make sure you have your 4070 graphics driver downloaded from geforce.com/drivers first and store it somewhere you know. once you restart and are in safe mode, open DDU and choose GPU and NVIDIA and click on clean and restart, but before you do that you should disable safe boot first so it doesnt reboot into safe mode again so youll go to msconfig again and then boot and uncheck the box saying safeboot, but this time click on exit without restart. and then you can click on clean and restart. once it restarts install the 4070 driver you downloaded from the nvidia website and you should be good

it would probably be worth the 10-20 minutes to at least try to get some tweezers and patience and try to bend it all back into place, if that doesn't work just buy a usb hub

you used ddu right?

The MOSFETs and VRMs for the CPU don't technically need cooling, my board does fine without them. They're obviously better if you're going to be performance overclocking and need reliability(I was stable at 4.4Ghz on my A6-5400K)

You will need a new board and RAM for an R5 1600 and RAM prices won't fall until towards the end of next year. The good news though is that, if you are in the US, near a Staples, you can buy a Ryzen 7 1700X right now for $209, or, Frys are doing a Black Friday deal for a Ryzen 1600 with a B350 motherboard for $189, which is less than some paid for the CPU alone just yesterday. Either CPU will be a significant upgrade in terms of all around performance.

go with the 1600 if you are overclocking and 1600x if you are not

nope, unless you are able to get a rubber seal. 

hammer

No worries my dude, was just thinking about ryzen before hand either way since its just kick buns right now 

Is that gigabyte card water cooled since I was thinking that build maybe a bit better with an asus 1080 ti or watercooled 1080 ti  

when you were hovering over funny but mouse sensor messes up T-T

okay thanks for letting me know
 

'stashones' = stations? holy god, thats bad

plus a better upgrade path
 

plus a better upgrade path
 

Id personally go with the ryzen 5 because you would have a more updated bios

I'm glad someone made that joke

sounds like a plan, glad I could help

the halflife games are pretty cheap and not very hardware intensive

I think your I5 would be ok, check you CPU usage when playing a game maxed out right now, and if its over than lets say 90 than it might bottleneck a bit.

If you are playing 1080p just get a 1060/1070

If you are playing 1080p just get a 1060/1070

If you are playing 1080p just get a 1060/1070

but if you really have your heart set on an i7 heres one for your whole budget.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i7-2600-3-4GHz-Quad-Core-CPU-Processor-Socket-LGA1155-SR00B-/252797133482?hash=item3adbe222aa:g:UXcAAOSw-0xYSKRr