Hardywells

The only time it really matters is for APUs which I assume since you're building a gaming rig, you'll have a dedicated video card so that doesn't apply. Just buy decent ram (any of the big brands like Kingston, G Skill, Corsair, etc.) will work fine.

@Mike: I have all my games, media, and documents on other ssd's or hdd's. My boot ssd was dying (4 years old, time for a new one) so I figured "eh why not install 8.1 then upgrade to 10 now? Worst case scenario I hit the "revert to previous build" option."

Microsoft did an outstanding job with compatibility with 7 and 8.1 supported programs. Chances are everything you have installed, if its been updated recently to support 8.1, it'll work fine on 10. Drivers have been zero issues for me for my stupid amount of peripherals as well. (USB Hubs, keyboard / mouse, usb headphones, 360 dongle, bluetooth dongle, etc etc."

Don't buy in to the internet paranoia of "I can't use windows 10 because I heard it's gonna take pictures of my donger when i'm not wearing pants and share them with my contacts!" Anything you don't want enabled in Windows 10 you can extremely easily disable.

In the end, is it leaps and bounds over 7 or 8.1. Not really. Is that a bad thing? Likely not. Have you got anything to lose? Nope you get a month to revert back. Is it way more slick than 7 and 8.1? Yes for sure it is faster and the Windows search feature is a billion times better, notification center is cool. Cortana if you're into that - I'm not I disabled it. (there's a bunch more features I'm sure you've read about that are cool too).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320173&cm_re=wifi_pci-_-33-320-173-_-Product

Looks solid since it has cables to move the antennas to a more optimal spot. I have used the step down from that before (AC1300) with great success.

Chances are your motherboard has an overheat feature which will shut the computer down before damage. In the mean time until you get better cooling; dust that badboy, make sure the fans are running fine, and take the side panel off while gaming.

Correct me if I'm wrong but 8mps seems like a high bit rate for 720p. Maybe try lowering it a bit and see how it looks. That should help with size. Also YUV is the video encode type that needs to be changed.

Jason's discontent with Dan in this poster kills me.

Same boat. Never had a problem with Nod32 or their Smart Security.

It could also just be a clock issue with the card. Maybe it was binned poorly and the memory or clock OC isn't stable. Try bringing it down a bit, if that solves it then you can live with it or ask for an exchange form where ever you got it.

Look up the Display Driver Uninstaller tool from Guru3D. I've had this problem before and that solved my issue. I also went from a 670 to 970 but I didn't have any problems. (Maybe because I used that program first). Good luck!