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Intel doesn't like it, but it still works on older BIOSes. Asrock calls it SkyOC. Skylake has separated PCIe and BCLK clocks, however, they run synced by default. Z170 chipset has 2 clock generators, therefor you can use one for PCIe and the other for BCLK OC of CPUs. (originaly intended only for K CPUs) This was found out and abused by some manufacturers to get BCLK overclocking on nonK CPUs. Some also included external generators on nonZ boards, to allow for the same feature.

They also don't have integrated video cards, which are requiered for QuickSync. Howerer, if it were a Radeon build, it would be a great option for Haswell, as AMD's VCE is outputting high quality too.

If you don't mind a cardboard case and £3 over budget, this is the best you cand do: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core OEM/Tray Processor (£150.17 @ Amazon UK) CPU Cooler: be quiet! PURE ROCK 51.7 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.98 @ Novatech) Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Pro4S ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£89.02 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£53.99 @ Ebuyer) Storage: OCZ TRION 150 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£34.98 @ Ebuyer) Storage: Toshiba 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.70 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card (£518.27 @ More Computers) Power Supply: XFX XT 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£42.98 @ Novatech) Total: £953.09 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-26 18:58 BST+0100 I'd recommend getting a cheap case somewhere somehow and overclocking the i5 to 4.7GHz on that board. Might need a BIOS downgrade though.

I am talking seriously here. No Pentium nonsense.

lol, I am trying to fit a 980ti into that budget

Including monitor/accesories?

Should we remind the true DX12 benchmarks to all who doubt the R9 390?

Since OBS supports all 3 gpu encoders, the playing field has shifted. A lot.

Better quality compared to? I think somebody actually did a comparison betweein x264, VCE, QS and NVenc. x264 won in quality, but taxed the performance too much (how unexpected), all others ended up same in performance loss, but NVenc had really bad quality.

Wasn't somebody teasing a CUDA to OpenCL recompiler?

Guys, it's 2016. We don't use CPUs for streaming anymore. All GPUs now have an integrated h.264 (de)coder in them. You can use QuickSync with Intel graphics (in all 115x CPUs), NVenc with nVidia cards and AMD VCE for Radeon Cards. All of these are supported by OBS.

Don't expect AAA titles to support this feature. Most developers are too lazy and will use old DX11 multi GPU techniques.

I could swap them all for some home-made ones, that way nobody could see that some were removed.

Why an internal audio card? Isn't an objective2 DAC AMP cheaper?

I can't have more squares on one qublet, that would be too obvious. I know it should be unsolvable, I want to know, how many different qublets would end up out of place after almost-solving the cube.

Fun fact! Even less, all BTC mining rigs have x1 extenders to save on PCIe lanes and to get as many GPUs as possible.

Is it? I unfortunately lost mine so I can't test. But if I just swap 2 stickers on one side, it will still be solvable?

Which is actually another nVidia nonsense... They run absolutely fine gen2x8 but can't run gen3x4 (same bandwith) because somebody in nVidia's marketing said so.

4x gen2 is plenty for a 980ti/FuryX. You are talking about 8x gen3, which is about 16xgen2. You have absolutely no reason to worry. Also, what are you editing in? Premiere has been known for using only 4 cores. Also why are you buying an internal audio card? External DAC AMPs (suck as Mayflowers Objetctive2) do perfom way better than internal cards.

If I were to take the stickers off of a standard Rubik's cube's corner cublet and put them back on differently, the cube should now be unsolvable. The question is, however, are there other positions, in which the cube is almost solved except for one corner cublet (a different cublet than which one I modified earlier)?

The data is propably fine, but you have no real means of transplating the discs.

Why did you go for a PCI WiFi card instead of a PCIe one?

Do you have a specially consealed chamber that has guaranteed ZERO dust or any other partcles? (That means you actually can't be in there, as dust is mostly dry skin fallen off of people. You'd have to wear a special suit in there.) You are better off buying a new drive and sending this one to some shop that is specialized in drive repaires.

I am confident yours is the first one. Because if you are building a fully watercooled server, you might as well make your own cases. The design price will get lost in the budget for a ton of Xeons.

Great build! Wouldn't go for a rackmount tho. However, if you already have a rack or are planning on expanding it, it makes a lot of sense. I have been actually looking at quad socket Opterons, as they have even more multithreaded raw power. Regarding the resolution question, look at some LTT videos regarding 4K youtube. The thing is, resolution is just a number. What matters more is compression quality and bitrate. LTT, for example, shoots 2160p, edits 1080p, but uploads 2160p because youtube allows for higher bitrate with higher resolution. TL;DR: Lossless 4:4:4 chroma 720p will propably look better than 4:2:0 5Mb/s h.264 2160p.