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My favorite item has got to be the Autore. No fuss, no excessive bling; just clean, monolithic style, Cherry brown switches, and tastefully done branding that ultimately goes with damn near anything.

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Yeah I gotta give this one to Luke. He definitely snagged the better deals as far as I can tell so far.

WOW, a whole extra gig? /kappa It's actually performing relatively on par with the 280X/770, and given that these cards are destined for 1080P gaming anyway more than 2GB of VRAM is kind of not even used unless you're doing some sort of number crunching with the cards or running Skyrim with ALL of ze mods.

Of the two cases mentioned by OP, I'd go for the Air 540 myself. Seen both in person, and I just like the airflow characteristics of the Air 540 better. They make more sense to me.

I like that this card is such a strong performer for its price point... a lot. I mean we all knew that it was going to be a low power draw card and have a single PCIe power connector blah blah blah, but the performance and ease of overclocking on this thing is a bit staggering from what I expected. Good on ya nVidia... ... AMD PLEASE stop dragging your dick in the dirt, let a bigger company buy your asses out, and bring some competition back to GPU and CPU consumer sales... PLEASE. I hate a stale market.

I've actually had a fair bit of bad experience with Corsair fans. I had two sets in a row that had bearing noise so bad I could hear the fans spinning from downstairs with them set to 50%... terrible quality control, only had one set work properly and they weren't really all that great for the price paid. I guess if you really want to color-match your system then they're fine, but there are better options out there imo.

for white fans I like Noiseblocker eLoops and Phanteks PH-F140XP fans, though the Phanteks units have a black frame so I dunno how you feel about that.

From a quick overview of your list it LOOKS like it SHOULD work. Just anticipate having to spend at least 10% more than what you have budgeted out for your build to compensate for any possible mistakes, extra fittings, more coolant/tubing, etc, that way you have a nice cushion available to avoid as much frustration as possible.

I'll just discuss the most recent debacle I went through with Asus: Got an M5A99FX R2.0 motherboard that wouldn't post past memory checking, MemOK! did nothing to resolve the matter. RMA'd the board, got it back... and it looked like someone dragged it down a dirt road for about 1/4 of a mile. Scratches all over the heat sinks, a VERY noticeable layer of some kind of dirt on every single socket you could plug something into, scrapes on the PCB itself... Got to talking to someone DIRECT over it, told them that the board WAS brand new before their RMA facility shrekt the board, demanded a new one... was SUPPOSED to get a replacement board... something got jacked on their end, got the same EXACT board back again... I went through this with them for two months, constantly getting the same exact friggin' board shipped RIGHT back to me... all the while no one stopped to think that maybe something is wrong here. Finally got it resolved, but it took me bitching at corporate to get anything done at all. As a result I seriously have a hard time recommending any of their products anymore based on the foul taste that still lingers over this

Personal opinion: the most accessible switch is probably the blues for those who have never tried mechanical switches before. My first keyboards were the Razer Black Widow Tournament Edition, and more recently the Thermaltake Poseidon Z. Both are fine keyboards, but I will share my experiences with both: Razer: The size of the keyboard is perfect for gaming since it can allow you to set your hands closer together to help with a slight disconnect some gamers (myself) experience when your hands are too far apart from one another. The switches have nice actuation with excellent tactile feedback, though it's almost too much feedback for me personally. Thermaltake: Their keyboards use the Kailh switches, which came about when the exclusive patent CherryMX had on the mechanical switch design expired. They are NEARLY identical, however in practice the Kailh switches have a tiny bit more force required to actuate the switch. Both boards offer great build quality and no-nonsense operation, and both come in different sizes (they are technically different models with more features, but software and extra keys aside that's basically the case). I've included a pic explaining the differences between each of the mainstream switch types that CherryMX makes. I have also included a video that has typing sounds for all of the main switch types (both sourced from WASDkeyboards.com)

No problem at all. Patience is a virtue that tends to be seriously lacking in the tech world anymore with information flooding our brains every second that we are online, and it's one that I also have a hard time with at times. I'd expect nothing less from a community with a question like this though, they can be insanely difficult to diagnose, especially if you have no practical experience with something like this.

And you say your previous cards never exhibited this symptom? I've heard of black screen issues on top tier Radeon cards that had BIOS issues, perhaps a BIOS flash is in order with your card... which, with it being brand new, probably means RMA x-(. I'd get in touch with EVGA on the matter though, their tech support is supposed to be really good with helping people figure out stuff like this. Try reaching out to Jacob on Twitter as well, he's @Evga_JacobF

Damn, just missed these codes lol. All good tho, I'd buy their album all the same, I like what I've heard of them thus far.

hmmmm... black screen is never a good sign... that's kinda strange though that it only seems to be shadows that are affecting anything. You also checked the nVidia Control Center settings? Sorry if I sound like a broken record, but those being even a little off can do not-so-nice things to your machine. That happened to my younger brother's machine once... it was awful...