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There are computer shops that replace bios chips, you could try your luck there

Well, it does say on the box seal on the 3600: "Dedicated GPU required"

Corsair h100i on that cpu? The cooler is the same price as the CPU. You would get a lot more performance by spending those 300 dollars on a better CPU and keep the stock cooler, or a cheaper cooler. For example a r5 3600 and a BeQuiet Dark pro 4 would get you way more fps.

B450m Mortar works very well for me. Did the bios flashback in 5 minutes, and dropped the CPU in. I used this guide:

For gaming especially it's the encoding. What you are noticing is the confetti effect. The more details that change with each frame the more pixelated and blurry the resulting video will be. It's especially noticeable in games with moving foliage, grass, trees, basically lots of small things that change from one frame to the other. On a high level encoding works by reusing bits of the image from the previous frames, and if most of the frame differs from one to the other there won't be enough bandwidth to transfer a 25 or even 60 full resolution 1080p images every second. So you end up with the blurry low resolution image you were describing.

It does stutter really badly on an hdd indeed. Normally it was running at 100 fps, but dropping to 40fps every 10-15 seconds, it was really annoying. Since I moved it to the ssd the frame drops are in the 5-10 range, so not that bad.

After 1-2 hours in GTA online I always see these numbers. I also have 8 GB of ram, I monitored the committed memory (ram + swap file) using Afterburner. The memory usage is always climbing, I think it doesn't deallocate anything and the OS eventually moves stuff to the swap file when the RAM sticks fill up.

The difference is night and day, after trying a 144 hz monitor going back to a 60 every animation seems off and choppy compared to that buttery smoothness.

Gta 5 has a memory leak like someone mentioned above. I've seen it use 20+ GB of ram on my machine inside the city. It will work fine if you have a huge swap file on an ssd.

Here's some real world scenarios with games. From what I see the 1060 3gb has double the framerates in most games. I'd say you made a good choice in getting the 1060.

Sis Mirage 3 on a laptop from around 2006. Used to play Wow on it until 3-4 years ago, I was getting 5-20 fps on lowest settings and on the lowest resolution. It has a score of 2 on passmark. Yes, you heard well, a score of "2". Not 2000, just 2. https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=SiS+Mirage+3

I switched from an r9 280x to a gtx 1080 and I got huge memory leaks to the point my windows would crash after 2-3 minutes of regular use. I uninstalled all the AMD drivers and programs, and then installed the Nvidia ones but it didn't work. The only thing that fixed it for me in the end was a clean windows install.

It's a bit over budget but I would save up and go for a ryzen 3 for ~100 euro, it's a quad core compared to the dual core intel pentiums in the 75 euro range. Alternatively, I would go for a second hand older gen (ivy bridge, haswell) i5. They go for really cheap, and with non overclockable CPUs it's pretty safe to buy used, they almost never break.

From what I understand you only dislike the fact that's very difficult to learn Vim. Which I agree, it can take months to learn to use Vim properly. But once you learn all the tricks you can't deny the advantages. By relying on the mouse for programming it's like clicking your spells in World of Warcraft, only newbies do that. Let's presume Vim is stupid and we shouldn't use it. In any random IDE you will still have to learn the hotkeys otherwise you are slow an inefficient. By using the mouse, clicking on menus and submenus you disconnect yourself from what you are doing. For example, let's say I want to comment this random paragraph of code. I could take the mouse in my hand, right click and drag the piece of text I want to comment and click on the comment code button if it's on the screen, if not, go to Edit > comment. Or I could just use vim to select the current paragraph "vap", Ctrl+K+C and be done with it. You save time and focus on what's important. It's important for all programmers to know their editor to maximize their efficiency. I only see beginners rely on the mouse, more experienced devs focus on using the keyboard extensively.

The mouse is inefficient though, you move around X times faster with the jump keys. You just have to memorize the key combinations once (which are very intuitive by the way), and use them everywhere, not just in Linux. I do 90% of my work in Visual Studio and I'm running a Vim emulator because it makes my life easier. What if you have to modify 500 lines of code by applying a similar pattern? Well with sed you do that in 10 seconds and move on.