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Lately, a friend of mine has been asking me for advice on a potential upgrade. He's currently rocking an i5 4570 with a GTX 960 and 8GB of RAM. While it still performs quite well, he's struggling with recording gameplay at 1080p60. Because of this, he'd like to upgrade his CPU to something with...

Hey guys, First of all, sorry for making so many threads lately Anyway. I've noticed some rather weird behaviour from my new GPU. It seems that whenever I reboot my PC, the GPU fans just stop working. Even when I put it under heavy load, the fans don't spin up. The first time I noticed this I...

Hi guys, Since the installation of my CPU cooler didn't go too well yesterday, I decided to try and run OCCT Linpack (at stock clocks) to see if I need to replace my thermal paste. At first, everything went fine. Temperatures didn't go above 67 degrees Celcius, and the CPU voltage was at about...

Hi there guys and gals! Long time no see. Ever since I joined OC3D more than 5 years ago, I've been talking about buying my own proper PC, but I never did end up buying one. Until now. It's taken a while, and I almost threw up when I paid for it all, but I'm finally getting a decent setup...

Sony has just unveiled their SF-G series of SD cards, with read- and write speeds of up to 300 and 299 MB/s respectively. Read more on Sony's new SD cards.

Valve has just launched SteamVR for Linux, allowing developers to create Linux content for the HTC Vive. Read more on SteamVR for Linux.

Numerous images of socket AM4 motherboards and their packaging have appeared online. While many AM4-motherboards have already been shown, pictures of the packaging were not published until now. Read more about X370 motherboard packagings.

With the launch of Ryzen approaching, we take a look at the features of AMD's latest AM4 platform. Read more on AMD's new AM4 platform.

A leaked e-mail suggests that AMD will be holding a major press conference at Computex, where they will launch their Polaris 10 GPU. Read more on AMD launching Polaris 10 at Computex.

As the title says, this is the place for all your TES VI speculations. Bethesda is holding its second E3 press conference on June 12th. Hopefully they'll show, or at least announce the next installment in the Elder Scrolls-franchise. To start off, where do you guys hope TES VI will take place...

The GTX 1080 will reportedly launch in four variants, including a liquid cooled one clocked at an insane 2.5 GHz. Read more on the liquid cooled GTX 1080. Thanks to Dicehunter for bringing this news to our attention.

AIDA64 Extreme now supports the upcoming Pascal, Polaris, and Vega GPUs. The latest version of the popular benchmarking suite adds preliminary support for Nvidia GTX 1080, AMD Polaris 10, Polaris 11 and Vega 10 cards. Read more on AIDA64 now supporting next-gen GPUs.

Nvidia has updated their list of Ansel supported GPUs to go back to the GTX 600-series video cards. The new technology will be usable on the GTX 650 and up. Read more on Ansel supported GPUs.

With VR just now hitting the mainstream market, loads of companies are coming out with accessories to make your VR experience more immersive. One such product is Manus, the world's first VR glove. Read more on the Manus VR gloves.

DICE is working hard to ensure that the launch of Battlefield 1 will go as smoothly as possible. The developer has been working 'for a long time' to make sure Battlefield 1's launch won't be a repeat of Battlefield 4's. Read more on DICE working hard on BF1 stability.