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I own this monitor, and would say that it's a solid choice for a 1080p IPS panel, as I don't tend to find there's any perceivable lag and motion blur is acceptable for most people, certainly those coming from a TV. Before I bought this monitor I played mostly on a TV, and was pleasantly surprised to find how much of a difference there is in perceived smoothness and responsive feel. This of course depends upon your TV, as scalers vary in terms of the input lag they cause, and I was using what is now a very old TV, one of the earliest HD models you could buy, but in a vast majority of cases your experience should be better. Also of note is the difference between TN and IPS. If you've never owned a display with an IPS panel before you'll probably notice a significant difference in vibrancy and contrast, just like I do all the time from using TN monitors at school and IPS ones at home. If you do anything like Photoshop the improvement is night and day. Anyway, hope I helped. Enjoy your new monitor.

If you're not using up all of your available RAM already and want an easy improvement in render times and the ability to render in real-time, grab yourself either of the two best value air coolers on the market at the moment: http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Hyper-212-RR-212E-20PK-R2/dp/B005O65JXI [Hyper 212 EVO] http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Contact-Heatpipes-RR-T4-18PK-R1/dp/B00BSKY1M4 [Hyper T4] These should both allow your 4790K to run at its 4.4Ghz turbo boost with fairly low temperatures, while leaving you enough money to get some extra RAM for more useful working space.

Try this: 1. Go to Steam 2. Right click on CS:GO and select Properties 3. Navigate to the Local Files tab 4. Click on Verify Integrity Of Game Cache 5. Wait for the process to complete itself 6. See if it fixes the problem! This technique has worked for me before on games that don't always launch correctly, but if you're still having problems then I'm unsure what the problem may be.

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Try using Event Viewer to look back at the system logs and see if it reports an error before shutdown. I would also check your system temperatures while running the game just to see if the system is first throttling (the occasional freezes that you notice) and then shutting itself down to prevent damage. If that is the case then you will probably have to do some cleaning or re-apply thermal paste to a component. There is also a chance that you could have partially corrupted drivers or some kind of similar issue, as a friend of mine who plays a lot of CS:GO recently had to do a fresh install of the Nvidia drivers to fix the crashing he was having. Anyway, hope your problem gets fixed.

All of them should be able to get over 60 FPS no problem in WoW or CS:GO. I wouldn't necessarily suggest going for a R9 290 or GTX 970 over a 960 if it means that the rest of the build is significantly weaker because of it. Only if you want to play games that are genuinely demanding, and probably at a higher resolution than 1080p (the R9 290 and GTX 970 are more targeted at 1440p), as a 960 will play nearly all modern games at max settings at 1080p.

My lovely H440 has a window, so it takes pride of place to my right on the desk.

If you're mainly playing those two games you should be able to easily achieve over 60 FPS in both of them. Here is a set of results for WoW: Bear in mind that the GTX 960 is significantly stronger than even the 660 Ti, and that you could probably get much higher framerates if anti-aliasing less than 8x was used instead. CS:GO should also run very easily, I get hundreds of FPS with every setting completely maxed out. As for video editing, a 4460 should be fine for any Shadowplay footage you capture if you are just cutting it up and re-ordering it, but it might slow down a bit if you want to render out complex transitions as well (don't know if those exist in MovieMaker). If you follow some of duriel's advice on the build you should be fine.

Can you give an indication of what games you want to run so that we can feedback on whether you can get 60+ FPS at your desired settings and resolution?

That's basically what I do, sorry for messing up the formatting on the post BTW.

If you're really desperate for an optical drive built into the case you could do this: https://www.youtu.be/lmwj5DPp5hU I used a Samsung external drive to install my Windows 8.1 OEM disc, but I mostly use it for ripping CD's and whenever I find a really good deal on a physical copy of a game. I still think that most people could easily get away without one nowadays.

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The most demanding game that I own is Metro Last Light Redux, which is extremely tough to run at max settings with SSAA enabled. Due to the total lack of regular anti-aliasing it just renders the game at a higher resolution than the native resolution of your monitor and samples it down back to native. While it does work very well to remove aliasing, it will give most people terrible framerates (including me). There are also really easy ways to make games crash. In Skyrim all you have to do is spawn in too many objects at once with the console and it will instantly lock up and be unclosable and impossible to switch to another application, requiring a press of the reset button to recover from it. For applications that stress your CPU a lot, AIDA 64, Cinebench and prime95 (the latter two especially when running more than the actual number of threads your CPU has) are good examples. Other things that bring my CPU to a crawl and use lots of RAM are: Rendering advanced effects on uncompressed 60fps video in After Effects while editing with Premiere at the same time (>90% RAM usage easily) Filter Forge's extremely complex image processing on any even fairly low render resolutions Using the photo-stitching feature in Photoshop with lots of high resolution photos (also >90% RAM usage) When you mod Minecraft way too far and have to run a modded server at the same time Those are just a few examples, even for people with very powerful systems it's still possible to slow everything right down with the correct settings, it's all about balancing what you want the system to achieve with the hardware you have.

I have my fingers crossed that this series won't so much of a 'fire-spitter' like the 200 series was. There was plenty of performance to be had, but it certainly came at a temperature and power consumption cost. The core counts look very impressive, and hopefully we'll see AMD pull closer to Nvidia in terms of architecture efficiency, but I still think Maxwell might have an edge on that side. Although, if all the memory specifications turn out to be true, the bandwidth will be far above any other card, and that should make all the difference for situations where there are a lot of pixels to push, such as Dell's 5K UP2715K, or 1440p or 4K surround. Also, I just want another pair of beast cards from both teams to go head to head, GTX 980Ti (or Titan 2) vs R9 390X showdown Linus?