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Honestly I'm surprised AMD was losing market share over the last couple of years and was only able to turn it around recently. Tajiti and Hawaii are still both great cards. Sure Fiji was too expensive to make sense most of the time, but Tajiti has been around for about 5 years now and the HD 7950 still kicks ass even in modern games. It's ridiculous how well that card has held up over time, and Hawaii is looking to be just as long-legged. Meanwhile, those who bought the GTX 680, a newer and more expensive card, have been much worse off.

If you want everything with an extreme focus on price to performance, you can also get this: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-D Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($47.99 @ Amazon) Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($26.99 @ SuperBiiz) Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($36.07 @ NCIX US) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($46.98 @ OutletPC) Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 390 8GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($279.99 @ Newegg) Case: Xion XON-560 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($28.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz) Total: $725.98 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-18 18:58 EDT-0400

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-D Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($47.99 @ Amazon) Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($26.99 @ SuperBiiz) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($46.98 @ OutletPC) Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 390 8GB PCS+ Video Card ($302.98 @ Newegg) Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz) Total: $723.91 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-18 17:25 EDT-0400 You can get a cheaper R9 390 (the XFX one is currently cheapest), but I wouldn't.

You're right on the benchmarks. I was looking at synthetics. However, you're entirely wrong on the price standpoint. It's not fair to wait for the $600 price and compare it to a 980ti's current price. I also was wrong about that too. You can actually get them for as low as $540 making the 1080's $700 price 30% more expensive. Again, if you're willing to wait for the price drop, then you'll have to factor in the corresponding maxwell price drop as well. At no point have I ever said the 1080 is a bad card. It's going to be the best card that will be available. I'm simply pointing out it's not living up to the hype and doesn't have insane price to performance that everyone claimed it was going to have compared to current cards. It's price/performance is the same as the 980ti, the current high-end card, not better. I did also point out its lack of async compute, which I do think will be a weakness in the future if DX12 takes off.

I'd be interested, but I don't think you're going to find 10 people of equal skill close enough for reasonable ping who are interested.

Holy crap. The $600 price is for cards from add-in-board partners only. Reference cards cost $700, and they'll be the only cards available at launch. This is all publicly available information. People are just seeing the "$599 ($699 for founder's edition)" and not realizing what it actually means. The 1080 will NOT cost $600 until some time after launch. As for your other complaints, I don't think you understand the difference between expectations vs reality. The 980ti was already kicking the Titan X's ass thanks to aftermarket coolers and clock speeds. The 1080 is just more of the same, quite literally. Expected progress. Well, actually a let down if you fell for the hype. 960 and 380 trading blows? That's a very loose interpretation of benchmarks. The only games the R9 380 loses in are the gameworks games with high tessellation levels, which can be changed in the control panel so that the 380 wins every time if you limit max tessellation with no visual degredation. I addressed this point already. Arguing against benchmarks is really the definition of a fanboy. Also while it's not my "God given duty," it is in their best interests to point out the flaws in someone's reasoning. Calling someone a fanboy simply because they don't share in your fanboy is the height of hypocrisy. Also, I'm not an AMD fanboy. I recommend NVidia cards all the time, but only when it's appropriate.

I would insult anyone asking specifically for an NVidia card if they didn't need the specific proprietary features like CUDA acceleration. It's not AMD fanboyism to recommend an R9 380 4GB over a GTX 960 4GB (the most common GPU comparison), and anyone getting the latter card simply because it's NVidia is stupid unless they're only playing FO4 and refuse to turn down tessellation if they had an AMD card. Someone willfully getting a worse card due to brand loyalty is the fanboy, not the other way around.

I'm not impressed. It's faster than the 980ti by around 20%, It's also around 20% more expensive than the 980ti ($700 vs $570). It still doesn't have hardware support for async compute. I get that it's going to be the fastest card, but $700 for a reference card is insane. NVidia really did manage to hype this card up a lot, and there certainly are many people expecting it to actually cost $600 at launch (it wont). Overall, I think it's just a standard progression. No big news, no big changes, just the same old architecture with more cuda cores thrown in thanks to the die shrink. It's a disappointment in my opinion, and I don't see the card having much longevity thanks to DX12.

If you're looking for a controller for the pure purpose of playing console like games, then I strongly recommend the XBox 360 controller. Many prefer it over the XBox One controller. The Steam Controller is very adaptable to games that aren't really meant to work with a controller, but if you're just playing controller based games then it's not as good as a standard controller. I'd get an XBox 360 wireless USB dongle and some XBox 360 wireless controllers. I actually have that setup in my living room right now on a mini ITX rig with a shitload of emulators and steam big picture mode, and it's great.

I would NOT overclock on that motherboard. It has really bad VRMs. Going from looks, it might even be an unheatsinked 3+1 VRM setup. I wouldn't touch anything.

What's the monitor? Spending $700 (or whatever it's going to cost) is a crapload for a GPU in that build. It's not very balanced, and if you're just going for standard 1080p, you don't need the horsepower.

If it were me, I'd get the 10bit 1440p 144hz IPS panel from Asus.

Just get one with the features you need. Motherboards don't have performance features, and every Z170 board I've seen has sufficient VRMs for all but the insane LN2 suicide runs. So long as it has the featureset you are going to use, it makes no difference.

G2A is a marketplace. You're not buying from G2A, but using G2A to buy from parties unknown. Many of these keys are from stolen credit cards, but mostly, especially with Windows Licenses, you're purchasing out of region keys, which is against ToS/EULA. It's shady as fuck and I'd stay away.

I'd wait and hope Polaris will not be mid-tier. I wouldn't touch Pascal yet because it looks to have the same DX12 problems as Maxwell. They just threw more cuda cores at it without really change the architecture. If DX12 doesn't become important, then Pascal would be great, but I seriously doubt the longevity of the cards. The problem is currently AMD has nothing to compare it to, so we're kinda up shit creek, which is why I'm hoping Polaris is not mid tier and can fill the void.

Forgot the OS. You can do this: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (€174.48 @ Mindfactory) Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€42.81 @ Amazon Deutschland) Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€28.84 @ Amazon Deutschland) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€48.83 @ Amazon Deutschland) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 2GB Dual WindForce Video Card (€153.96 @ Amazon Deutschland) Case: Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (€42.30 @ Amazon Deutschland) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (€99.78 @ Mindfactory) Total: €591.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-16 18:12 CEST+0200 And do NOT get an AMD CPU at this price point. That would be awful. The GTX 960 also makes no sense as the R9 380 is better and cheaper than it. The 4GB versions are even worse because the 960 has that small memory bus problem.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (€202.23 @ Mindfactory) Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (€59.47 @ Mindfactory) Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (€32.09 @ Amazon Deutschland) Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€39.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€48.83 @ Amazon Deutschland) Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 380 2GB PCS+ Video Card (€177.28 @ Amazon Deutschland) Case: Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (€42.30 @ Amazon Deutschland) Total: €602.19 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-16 18:10 CEST+0200 No. Don't fanboy. Just get the best available.

For gaming? You're better off with an i5-6500, H81, and a better GPU than the GTX 950. If you must stick with haswell, just get an i5-4590. The Xeon would be great if you did more than just gaming though.

The EVGA G2 and GS are excellent. The GQ is meh, and the G1 is poor.

Pokemon Gold/Silver or their remakes, HeartGold/SoulSilver are regarded as the best in the series.

You spend way, WAY too much on the motherboard, and that PSU is not worthy of the other parts. I'd get this: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($244.99 @ Newegg) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($24.89 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: Asus Z170-E ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($88.98 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($31.98 @ Newegg) Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 390 8GB PCS+ Video Card ($287.10 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($61.99 @ SuperBiiz) Total: $726.93 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-15 11:22 EDT-0400

Not going to happen, and not something you should be doing in the first place. The only way to clone the 2TB drive onto the SSD is to delete off enough stuff from the 2TB drive so that the used amount of storage will fit on the SSD. That's a bad solution though. Always fresh install, and you have the perfect opportunity.

Install windows to your SSD, completely fresh install. Change in bios your boot order, and your old 2TB drive will be untouched and the data will all be there. If you want everything magically on it and to work with that same installation of windows on the 2TB drive, that's not going to happen. You cannot image 2TB worth of stuff onto an SSD.

I added two more options if you want more choices.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z170ax131 or http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz170hd3p or http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z170apcmate The second two just have extra looks, but they all have the features you want.