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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Nevada, USA
  • Occupation
    Software Engineer

System

  • CPU
    AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition
  • Motherboard
    MSI 790FX-GD70
  • RAM
    8 GB (4x2GB) Corsair Dominator
  • GPU
    XFX HD 5770 x 2 + Nvidia 610
  • Case
    Cooler Master HAF
  • Storage
    A lot.
  • PSU
    Corsair HX 1000W
  • Display(s)
    Acer X223w + Sony 42" TV
  • Cooling
    Random Case Fan and CPU cooler
  • Keyboard
    Logitech G510
  • Mouse
    Razer Deathadder (original)
  • Sound
    Sennheiser G4ME ONE Open
  • Operating System
    Windows 7 SP 1

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  1. techjunkie867
    RAM and an SSD
  2. techjunkie867
    That's not what I did at all. I told you that in order to get what you want, you need to increase your budget to 1500. You preceded to tell me that you didn't. If you are the one asking for help, perhaps you should take the help that we are giving you. At this point in time you cannot buy and run (to see the benefits of) a 120 Hz monitor with a computer that costs ~700$ ($1000 - the price of a 120 Hz monitor and mechanical keyboard) You would be better off waiting for prices to come down, increase your budget, or don't get a 120 Hz monitor. We're not here to chastise you. But stop complaining. We said don't upgrade or increase your budget and you said no. Do what you want.
  3. techjunkie867
    I agree. No reason to overspend on a motherboard designed for OC'ing. As for the passive cooling, I can support it if you are trying to go for a quiet build and have the room in your case. Otherwise, a decent fan/heatsink cpu cooler will work just fine. Agree as well. Unless you are going to be doing cpu intensive work, most games do not use all cores equally, making the returns on getting an i7 not that great for gaming. More games are starting to make use of more cores though, so that's a choice that you'll have to make. That's not to say that an i5 will become obsolete, just right now i7's are way overkill for gaming. I would say go 780 if you can afford it, 770 otherwise. Might pay to wait until new Maxwell cards are released as well, as prices might drop slightly. Also, the 270x is 2 2gb cards in crossfire. It will not help for 3 monitor setup. It would be worse than a card with 3gb vram in 1 chip. Vram is not added in crossfire/sli. 2 2gb cards = 2gb vram.
  4. techjunkie867
    "You feel" Have you gamed on a 120 Hz monitor? If all you are trying to play is counter strike, then just buy a 120 Hz monitor, your 680 should be able to push that modestly enough.
  5. techjunkie867
    Honestly, If you want to get a really good experience and you NEED to game at 120hz, I would increase your budget to 1500. Between the monitor and graphics card you are taking up over 1/2 your budget. You either need more money, or lower your expectations. Edit: Look at this: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/60129-best-video-card-for-120hz-gaming/
  6. techjunkie867
    If you are suggesting an upgrade to lga 2011-3 why would you recommend downgrading the psu so drastically? The cpu's are pretty power demanding and he said that he might upgrade to sli in the future. That is poor advice. @LinkoftheAge Your psu is fine (the silence option is up to you depending on whether or not you want to hear it running constantly or not), and I also would recommend going windows 7. You will have less compatability issues. If you're not going to be doing anything heavy workstation or computational wise lga 1150 is fine, no reason to spend extra money for cores that will sparsely get used.
  7. techjunkie867
    I would say wait it out a little bit. Haswell-e should be coming out any day now, as well as the new line of graphics cards. If your budget allows you can upgrade to those if its worth it, or at the very least the new hardware should drop the prices of existing top of the line hardware.
  8. techjunkie867
    I didn't say you did. This just comes from experience of, the stock coolers are terrible. I wouldn't want my cpu ever running on a stock cooler. Even if its a slight upgrade, it is worth it.
  9. techjunkie867
    I would highly recommend not using the stock cooler for your cpu.
  10. techjunkie867
    I also would suggest waiting for the imminent release of the haswell-e. At the very least it will drop prices slightly of current gen processors. I wouldn't go with a Haswell-e build though due to your limited budget and ddr4 is going to extremely expensive. If you wanted to stockpile a little more money and wait a bit to see how the new architecture performs it might be worth it. I do disagree with you lee... While it might not offer actual performance increase from the processor itself, or minimal albeit, the Ivy-e architecture allows throughput that Haswell doesn't. So the choice is more a socket choice, not a processor strictly. No the liquid cooler is not necessary. But I would suggest it. If you're nervous about installing them, there are guides everywhere. If you don't want to, just pick up a nice aftermarket cooler that suites your likeness. But you should be spending more than 30$ on a cooler though, ha.
  11. techjunkie867
    I would HIGHLY recommend going with a caselabs case. No matter what. Especially for modding and extreme builds. Perhaps the STH10. I can put up an ultimate build in a little bit, but this is my current extreme build in the making (with a budget though) http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DCqtLk
  12. techjunkie867
    Lol. I've never worn an anti-static wristband. Built numerous computers, never had a part die. Were you rolling around in the carpet with the quaddro? Antistatic wristbands are pretty useless. If you don't know to discharge your static before you start building, you probably shouldn't be building in the first place.
  13. techjunkie867
    You should also add a SSD.
  14. techjunkie867
    I've had my AMD Phenom II 955 for 5 years now, and it still runs like a champ. I don't know how long you're planning on running your cpu for year wise but I've never had any issue with AMD. Although I haven't OC'd it much, but it has been running pretty much 24/7 for 5 years.
  15. techjunkie867
    What are you going to be doing with this computer?
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