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Man if i had 500USD to cool a room idd feel wealthy  
 
could you share some info on your specs?

Are you sick of SLI/does SLI have bad scaling in the games you play? 
Yes? -> Upgrade No? -> Stay

Your 2 970s should defiantly hold up for a bit longer with today's games. I'd wait another year or 2. 
 
I can see you're new to the forum, so welcome, and no, don't give your video cards to this guy:
 

Yes, i knew you were kidding, I just didn't want the new fourm member to be confused. 

i mean usually you just shouldn't mail your stuff to random people on the internet anyways... 

i mean windows xp still runs on over 7% of all computers... just throwing that out there...

i mean windows xp still runs on over 7% of all computers... just throwing that out there...

Welcome to the forums!
 
Well it's not entirely accurate. Power supplies actually hold some amount of electricity in them so that when your power goes out, the computer has enough time to realize that and shut down properly. This electricity is kept in a big battery called a capacitor and whenever you turn the PSU off it will possibly discharge (they don't always discharge).
 
So let's say it does discharge and you replug it in. Then a bunch of electricity quickly moves into that capacitor as it fills itself up very rapidly. We call this inrush current, and it can damage the PSU, yes, but only if your PSU sucks. This is why people say that unplugging and replugging your PSU can damage it. If you have a bad PSU (and you should know what model and make it is, because there are some real bad ones out there), then there's a chance that one bad thing about it is that it doesn't regulate that inrush current well enough and as such gets damaged from it.
 
If you want my opinion on what you should do, I think you should leave it on standby, it's got its pros and cons but there is little risk to leaving it like that. If you don't want to do it, either is fine. But more importantly check to see if your PSU is good because if it's nad it might damage components in your computer in other ways.
 
Cheers!

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my recommendation is to build a build a really good main rig for gaming, then a cheap Chromebook or something like that for other stuff around the place.

my recommendation is to build a build a really good main rig for gaming, then a cheap Chromebook or something like that for other stuff around the place.

this is a low spec version of lubuntu- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Alternate_ISO
 
and if it still is too much, here is a list of some other good ones- https://www.linux.com/news/best-lightweight-linux-distros-2017

Intel vs AMD and Nvidia vs AMD fanboy wars?

build, or if on a budget, find a prebuilt and upgrade it.

Kyle did a good video on this. 
 
 

if anyone has a cat, you know that dust collects FAST!.. at least for me.

other than what they said, 

sorry i just wanted to do that.
ok i'll find my way out

welp. that's interesting. now we're screwed.

Change the drive letter back manually?

glue a UPS to the inside of the pc case and you have a "build in battery".

Id probably go with a G4560 and get an SSD

You may want to fix your posts for night theme users. Just highlight and click the Tx icon.

this is the pc that I have built that works just fine for exactly that purpose- https://pcpartpicker.com/list/RBmvNN
keep in mind these are the prices I paid for them, and they may vary. It's all about timing, patience, and research to get a good price. 
 
later I added in a 1tb drive, some RBG, and a network card, which only put the price a little over $500