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Thanks for all the feedback guys! I'll stop clinging to an old platform lol.

As the title says, I'm looking to pick up an X79 motherboard for a 4960x (I'm ok with a BIOS update if necessary). It needs to have 8 ram slots, as I have a 64 gb kit (8x8) that I want to use as well. I was looking at the ASUS P9X79 LE ($480) currently. The WS version of that board was enticing, however it had pretty negative reviews on newegg. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

I think I'm just going to cut my losses and get a new board. I really want to get a strong overclock, and with an already damaged board I'd always be like on the edge, thing would freeze once because of software and I'd think the board is dead, lol.

I was intending to go for the best overclock I could get, would the damaged pins hinder that much if it did work?

I recently purchased some hardware from a "friend" (you'll see why that's in quotes in a moment), I'll post everything I got after, but the topic of this post is the motherboard. After getting all of the components home I got to work. Included was an old h100 cooler, I had an h110i I wanted to use instead still in the box, so I set to work removing the h100. First thing I noticed was a ludicrous amount of thermal paste. I was pissed, but it wasn't anything an hour or two of delicate cleaning couldn't solve. I'm a little sketched that some of the compound got on the board in a spot I couldn't reach very well when I first removed the cooler (from a drip), however I think I got it up. After solving that crisis I was finally able to remove the CPU (just wanted to check on the socket), and of course, I found some bent/damaged pins, they seem almost ... burnt? I'll upload pictures. Basically, the guy I bought everything from says everything was working fine, and I know it's possible to have bent pins and the board still function, however I wanted to get y'alls opinion on this. I haven't actually tried to boot up the rig because the CPU I bought with it is a 4960x and I really didn't want to risk burning it out if by some chance the damage was done when my "friend" was transferring the components to the case he sold me (I should mention that the rig was originally in another case, the one he would've tested in, and I wanted his x9 case, so he moved the components into the case, but didn't hook everything up, so its possible he damaged it while moving it). Based on the pictures what do you guys think, buy a new board? Try to boot and see if it works (risking frying the chip)? To me it seems almost like the pins (especially the middle two pictures) were melted from heat / a bad overclock. The last picture seems like the same, but just to a lesser extent. I don't imagine getting the money back from this guy will be a clean process, it'd likely involve small claims court, and I don't know how that would really pan out since its computer components. The first picture shows a blurry shot of the socket, you can see some damage on the top and bottom of the image. I can get a better picture from this angle if someone needs it. The second and third image show different angles of the top bit of damage, The last image shows the bottom bit, this sortof looks like just the plastic melted, probably due to poor cooling / bad overclocking. The pins look a little warped but seems to maintain structure. For those curious, this is what I bought off of him. ASUS X79 Deluxe 4960x (with h100 AiO that is pretty beat, I don't think it was on the original rig, he just through it in as a "bonus", I didn't really want it but hey, free cooler I guess) Thermaltake x9 Dominator Platinum 64gb kit (8 x 8gb, matched kit) AX1200i PSU 2TB WD Black LG Bluray Burner I payed $1400 because he really needed some cash, thought I was doing him a favor, not likely to happen again, hah.

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This is the best way anyone could have answered this question. Bravo

I would hazard a guess with the 5960x

Literally, just pick a task that you do every day that you think you can program automation for. It doesn't even need to be something you intend to use after you've completed it, its all about the learning experience.

I was factoring in whether or not we could could the Witcher as price savings (if they were already going to buy it). Also not a huge fan of the 290 (but thats personal preference, not trying to start a debate )

Hoppin on that Titan X wagon, think the decision is clear

For sure, and if you are into games like Witcher 3 you can sortof tack that on as savings .

It would still be very helpful if you would clarify what you plan to use the thing for. As the medium and high end stuff can vary dramatically depending on what you're trying to accomplish.

Then you must not have a clean grasp on overriding, because the fact that it acts the same as normal windows doesn't mean they don't have some form of override. The windows commands are just simulating the action, the program overriding the maximize event has nothing to do with windows calling maximize on the application (because say you hit windows up, snapped it, or clicked the maximize button). The shortcuts and snapping all call the same event, they wouldn't need to override three different methods for snapping maximize, shortcut maximize, and button click, they just override maximize. This happens with steam, when it gets maximized. Doesn't matter how you maximize it (snapping, shortcuts, the button itself, etc), it happens with steam. That and the fact that they clearly handle their UI differently than standard windows applications is even more evidence that this is on steams side. The fact that this is the only program I've ever had maximize differently on multiple display resolutions (and I've had multiple resolutions on multiple monitors since XP) just further points me in the direction of this being a steam problem.

Just noticed this issue myself, I have 1 30" 2560 x 1600 and two 27" 1920 x 1080 monitors, and any time I maximize steam on the 27"ers it tries to go to 2560 x 1600. Pretty sure its something with steam, people claiming that "its just a normal window" obviously don't program applications, you can override / overload the maximize event, they could very well be doing something behind the scenes (and judging how that app works, I wouldn't doubt it).