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Is rumble turned on in the game settings? Does the rumble work on any game?

I'd probably see if you can make it one more iteration of GPUs. The 300 series from AMD and Nvidia's Volta should be interesting with the stacked memory. Try turning down anti aliasing, and turning off motion blur, depth of field, ambient occlusion and see how it looks and plays. Also TVs are fine for gaming if you aren't dead set on playing competitive games 24/7 like CS. They take 5 minutes to set up because you'll want to turn off frame interpolation, overscan, and set post processing of the image to low / none but they're golden after that.

You can probably expect very little instances of bottlenecking with that combo but there will always be a couple of cases, Total War, ARMA, unoptimized ports, etc. I wouldn't put anything higher than the 960 with it though.

Dear God... Why am I the one getting replies from the bandwagon. I own a 690 (680 SLI). No one looking to spend $2,000 dollars on a machine cares about the extra heat and power. You rig extra fans to push the heat out and if the second card's power consumption is going to bankrupt you, you aren't spending 2 grand on a computer. The microstutter "issue" is bull as long as you're talking about newer cards and two way SLI instead of what no one recommend's three or four way. I know about the library for SLI support, since I actually own SLI. The thing is if you mostly play AAA games they almost always have SLI support. Do you see where OP has mentioned the games the play? I don't. When going SLI you have to be aware of the franchise of games you normally play. That being said SLI almost always beats a single card solution in terms on price to performance because you're taking a gabble on software support. Two 970s cost 27% more than a single 980 but give 50% more performance. Benchmark- http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_970_sli_review,16.html http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_970_sli_review,15.html http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_970_sli_review,12.html I am aware of everything about SLI. I don't recommend SLI past 2, I don't recommend SLI of anything lower than the X80 or X70 GPUs, I don't recommend SLI for 1080p where it isn't needed if you bothered to read my other posts. I was in favor of going a 1440p monitor with a single 970 and SLI later if they wanted or needed it. SLI has its flaws but damn is there a bandwagon against people owning upper tier PCs in this thread. If any other post replies to me with the same any of these recycled talking points, you won't get a response.

So you're telling me you think HP individually installs the OS onto every machine specifically? You know with a mass produced product you install an image from a single finished product across every new drive used to assemble more machines. They have mass hard drive cloners for a reason. The drive is done once it leaves the cloner. It is ready to boot. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0Y5-0001-000D8&cm_re=hard_drive_duplicator-_-0Y5-0001-000D8-_-Product

I took a shot at it and came way under budget so I threw in a 1TB HDD. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor ($46.99 @ NCIX US) Motherboard: ASRock AM1B-M Micro ATX AM1 Motherboard ($26.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($26.65 @ Amazon) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.75 @ OutletPC) Case: Cooler Master TC102 ATX Mid Tower Case w/500W Power Supply ($37.99 @ Micro Center) Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($13.98 @ Newegg) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($86.89 @ OutletPC) Keyboard: AmazonBasics KU-0833 +MSU0939 Wired Standard Keyboard w/Optical Mouse ($13.49 @ Amazon) Total: $305.73 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-01 01:14 EDT-0400 Let me toss in some benchmarks too.5350 http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+5350+APU+with+Radeon+R3 vs A4 5000 http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A4-5000+APU

It is actually more likely to happen when using two 980s on a 1080p display. As anything higher or lower than 144Hz (in this case much higher) can produce screen tearing. The monitor refreshes the screen 144 times a second aka 144Hz, the gpu could be throwing out 250 frames a second. The frame the monitor is getting isn't in line with the frames the gpu is throwing out. Vsync, Gsync, and Freesync are the only things to combat this. If you turned on Shadowplay's fps counter you'd probably see staring at the sky is letting your gpus pump out much higher fps than at the ground. If you enable Vsync, I would strongly recommend forcing on triple buffering. Both can be found in Nvidia control panel, manage my 3D settings.

Could be a couple of reasons but it should be fixable by turning on Vsync. Is it during a cutscene?

If you just drop overclocking can get a 970 and a nice color scheme match. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($159.99 @ Micro Center) Motherboard: MSI H97 GAMING 3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($115.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($68.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.75 @ OutletPC) Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($319.99 @ Newegg) Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($57.99 @ Micro Center) Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($57.50 @ Newegg) Total: $833.20 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-01 00:10 EDT-0400

Because da big case means it is da better one! /s

No, OP had another thread asking this question and I already answered with the 960. There is also probably a couple of Displayport to HDMI 2.0 adapters out there but haven't found any yet myself. Most TVs don't have displayport which is why they are looking for HDMI. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/337945-best-970-for-an-htpc/

All onboard igpus I know of only have HDMI 1.4 or 4k 30 fps. Need HDMI 2.0 for 60 fps.

1TB WD Blue or Seagate 2TB. I picked 1TB just because it is cheaper (overall) though if you think you will need more room go with the 2TB.

Unless it is a system on a chip type deal I'd rather make it myself.

You should be doing something like watching TV or sleeping. Those are productive. /s Maybe even read a book because people here like to flaunt the fact they can read. Big whoop, I passed elementary school too. Imaginary fictional bedtime stories, sorry I mean "novels" are so much better than playing in a virtual fantasy land... That or they read written porn. Cough 50 Shades of Grey cough.

So anyone looking for a quick fix post, I'm sorry, try the next one down. So about a year ago I rebuilt my friends Alienware because it was... on its way out. Now to keep the budget down we recycled parts from it. I also used some of my salvage from other donated parts. So here is the spec list. I5 4590 Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming 5 four sticks of 2 GB 1333MHz ram (Alienware) 120 GB SSD (forgot model) EVGA 500B 80+ bronze psu GTX 660 Ti (Alienware, with possible Dell rebranding based on comparisons) 750GB HDD (salvage) Windows 7 64 bit So the initial build went fine until it got to installing Geforce drivers where it blue screened. Just in case it was a coincidence I tried again, and another blue screen. So I replugged the GPU and tried once more and yet another blue screen. Fearing the card may have died, I plugged in a GTX 260 and it worked. It installed drivers and everything. So we were about to toss out the 660 Ti since the problem was isolated to it and decided to plug it into another machine. Where it installed drivers and played games fine... So we plugged it into the new machine and it worked fine... We later discovered on the next Geforce driver update it would BSoD at the end of every driver update. The driver would successfully install according to everything we could see about it. DDU plus fresh install didn't change the BSoD at the end of every driver install. The problem wasn't severe enough for him to give me the machine to dive deeper into the problem so this went on for about another 3 months. His power went out one day while he was playing a game and after that we had the amazing Event ID 14 nvlddmkm error. Which would occur randomly, fresh reboot, idle, load, or gaming. It didn't matter, randomly his GPU would no longer be recognized and fps would drop to like 7. The only thing that may temporarily fix it was restarting the computer. So thinking the GPU was a false negative on being on the way out I put back in the 260. It had the same issues. So I figured something got corrupted in the power outage and reinstalled the OS. Fresh install, fresh games, and yet the same issue persisted on both GPUs. Did memtests, hard drive checks, different ram slots, different ram, checked power, tried with older drivers, tried older versions of motherboard drivers, updated BIOS, if you can think of it we've most likely tried it. It gets worse though, the sound jacks start detecting ghost devices being plugged in randomly. The Event ID 14 issue also gets progressively worse. So that brings me to this week, I got my hands on the machine. First thing I notice is the 750GB C:\ drive hard drive is transferring files off at 21KB/s... The drive was under very light usage by other programs under resource monitor so this raised a red flag. I swapped drives and put a fresh install of Windows onto a 1TB salvage drive. The computer works. No BSoD on driver install, no event ID 14, no ghost detections on audio jacks***, and it runs like a champ. So I check the SMART data on the 750GB and it says it is good. I make it do a filesystem check and sector check and comes back clean. It is also baffling working at its normal 50-100MB/s speeds now... You may have noticed the third part of the title, and also the fact I bolded and starred ghost detections for things plugging into audio are gone. That is because now the Windows log in noise has twice been replaced by brief disturbing very loud white noise / static. There is no rhyme or reason to the 2 instances where the login chime was static other than I think I used CCleaner during those power on instances. It has been restarted dozens of times over the last 3 days of testing it to see if the Event Id 14 error will come back yet it has only did static twice. The event generates no errors, and doesn't effect the computer in any other noticeable way. Sound works perfectly fine after the static where the windows chime would be. Since it is so early in the boot I don't think monitoring software would catch it. I want to say it is the motherboard but every component that shows signs of being dead has either returned clean or didn't change when replaced. At this point in troubleshooting it I'm assuming the computer is contacting Satan so my question is wooden stakes, silver bullet, holy water, or burned at the stake... /s For those that stuck around thanks for reading. Tomorrow I intend on testing my CCleaner theory, reinstalling the sound drivers, and continue stress testing to see if Event ID 14 is indeed gone for good since the hard drive change. If you have any other ideas to queue up for troubleshooting my new ghost friend let me know in the comments. -Thank you.

All 980s are 980s. The only difference is clock and cooler. The cooler has nothing to do with the silicon lottery chances of getting a good overclocker. Just the temp and noise that it would be running at. As far as clock you get what they put on the box. Then you may get a varying amount more on top of that clock when you overclock it yourself. There is nothing stopping a non hybrid 980 from being a better overclocker than the evga hybrid card. There is nothing stopping an evga hybrid card from being the better overclocker. It is all based on luck once you push it past what they bin it for on the box, hence silicon lottery.

You can also go to Catalyst Control Center and force triple buffering on. Which allows the GPU to put out frames other than 30/60 while vsync is on. I personally prefer to leave vsync on as it stops my gpu from being loud from generating frames that won't appear on the screen and reduces screen tearing. The 60 cap will still happen since that is your monitor's refresh rate but triple buffering allows it to go down to any frame rate instead of instantly to 30.

1066 means it is running at 2133. Ram transfer on both the raising and falling edge of the clock so 2 times per clock. 1066 clock ticks means 2133. 1200 would be 2400. Try setting the XMP to disabled and see what frequency it runs at. It will probably be 666 aka 1333. If you get blue screens on that then its probably a faulty stick. If you don't then we'll see if we can find someone with an Alienware to guide you through manually setting memory timings to the max the board supports.

No, he said the cpu is socket LGA 1150. You have a LGA 1155 motherboard. The LGA 1150 I3 4130 CPU WILL NOT WORK in a LGA 1155 board.

Most people adhere to the stupidity of if it is more expensive that means it is better. The other half buy it for looks.

Social media, the tool that isn't inherently good or bad that people would rather blame their personal shortcomings on because the device made them do it. Personal shortcomings regarding social media usage of other people, the idea that the reason that the girl on the other side of the bus wants nothing to do with you is because she is addicted to her phone and doesn't know how to hold a conversation. People know how to hold a conversation if they want to. Take the hint, not everyone wants to. Sometimes you are the person on the bus that everyone wishes would shut up so they can relax after a day of work.

Nvidia changed that. Same vram only now. Someone linked Nvidia's own requirements page up above.

True but I mean, OP specifically said, "I'm getting a 970 because its the cheapest card that supports HDMI 2.0". Which would be incorrect since the 960 is cheaper. Performance is another discussion.

Wouldn't the 960 be the cheapest card for HDMI 2.0 in an HTPC? "Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2" http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-960/specifications