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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I had that same rig you had, but unfortunately the power supply blew up two years ago and apparently it fried the motherboard. I'm not sure if the CPU (and RAM) is still working tho, but the rest of the PC survived. I sidegraded to a Ryzen 2600 and it works fine.

&gt; so I'm hoping it'll play it but definitely on its last legs

That's what I'm worried about too, but I'm definitely still holding on to it until it dies
gpt
I've had 4 gtx970s over the years. I ended up replacing the thermal paste and pads on the gpu coolers on all 4. They all ran 5-10c cooler after that and all 4 are still going strong.