Justjuice12

As long as you can keep up with these advancements, this isn't a problem at all.

Basically a better version of what I said.

I'd suggest studying Computer or Electrical Engineering if you want to get into hardware. I'm currently 3rd year in Elec. Eng and I love it but it may not be exactly what your'e looking for. Electrical engineering definitely has a larger scope than comp. eng, ranging from power generation, microwave and radio theory and applications, electronics (hardware), robotics, software (computer architectures in VHDL and other implementations) and even construction. I have a lot of friends that are doing Computer Engineering and they love it, but it was a little too specific for me when I was in first year. I hope this helps you, I was in the same shoes as you before. Just do what you love and you won't regret it! :-)

I almost choked on my coffee when I read that. My mom is exactly the same. She thought her iPhone could get a virus through voicemail. *facepalm*

Yeah, for like 60$ more I'd go with the more expensive build. You get a pretty good 8 core FX chip that would probably do better for "future-proofing" (hate that word), alternatively you could always get the cheaper build and upgrade to a 7870 if you want a little more graphics horsepower for gaming.

I generally wouldn't use different fans for push/pull since you can create turbulence if they're running at different RPM's, but it depends on the fans though I guess. Stop shouting at me! :(

Please don't justify your reasoning for using hacking programs as it just makes your argument even more pathetic. At the end of the day most gamers play to have fun, and if you're joining their games and hacking to get a kick out of it you need to seriously sort out your priorities. I may not be a psychologist but that's not normal. As for what JohnnyGrey said, I agree mostly. If you're resorting to hacks you need to find something else to spend your time on in a positive way.

That's pretty freaking pathetic. Thanks for ruining the community for everyone! :angry:

I think I'm moving to Singapore! :) Yeah, I really shouldn't complain. My connection is fast enough. In this day and age, we're too impatient waiting for things to download.

I'm with Cogeco cable in Canada, this is supposed to be a 65/2 connection, but I'm downloading a game on steam and my family are hogging my bandwidth on Netflix. :( I just ran the SpeedTest again and my connection is being throttled really badly. Darn Netflix.

The 1TB WD Caviar Black might be a little overkill for just storing media, they have really high read and write speed (for HDD's), the 2TB Seagate Barracuda drive you picked out is really good. I put one in my mom's PC and there haven't been any problems so far.

Okay, since you're playing on your SSD what you could do is use Dxtory's RawCap system to break the files up onto two different drives, that should alleviate some of the stress that your SSD will have when recording. Once you're done playing your game you can just move the .rawcap files to your HDD and then convert them to .AVI files for editing or compression, this is what I do and it's really nice. If you don't have much space left on the SSD, it might be better to just record only to the HDD though. As for the ShadowPlay thing, I hope this is how it works, it would be nice to be able to automatically save the last 20 minutes of play, maybe someone can try and code a script for it to do this. I could try but I don't know any of the pointers or hooks in the program and it would be a pain to try. Finally, one of the best things about Dxtory is that you can be playing at 60~120 FPS in game, while recording your video at 30 FPS at whatever resolution you want. Another feature allows you to have multiple audio streams to your game, so you can run Skype/TeamSpeak and your game audio on different channels and edit them separately. In my opinion, it's really one of the best pieces of recording software available, but one small negative is that you can only record applications that use DirectX or OpenGL/OpenCL I think. I know for a fact that you can't record in Chrome or on the Desktop. I also agree that FRAPS can be annoying sometimes because you need to record at the framerate you play at. I have a 120 Hz monitor and I can feel the difference in every game when I'm at 30, 60 and 120 FPS. You may not see the difference, but you can feel a huge difference in responsiveness. If decide to use Dxtory, and want help with an ideal setup, feel free to ask! :)

Awesome, good luck! I would actually suggest to learn how to overclock your CPU in the bios since you can get better results and you know what's going on. I'm sure there are people on the forum (or myself) that can give you advice if you need it.

While neither will have a direct impact on the recording/streaming process, this is limited by your internet connection, if you don't have a good framerate in the games you're playing then the quality will be terrible. In this case, the GPU is probably more important. The CPU will come into play when you're compressing the raw video files or when you render/edit. I personally use Dxtory for recording with the Lagarith Losses Codec set to YV12 mode and have multi-threading enabled as this has provided me with the best performance in games reduces the file size by up to a third of the default size while maintaining the amazing quality. I record at 30 FPS at 1080p also. For reference though, 6 hours of BF3 footage will probably be around 600~800 GB of raw footage. This gets reduced by around 90% after compression and editing. As for streaming, the best program to use is probably Xsplit because the setup is so easy and it's super fast, however depending on your connection you can have quite a bit of latency. Keep in mind with ShadowPlay, that we don't know if we'll have to play the game at the framerate that we record at like FRAPS. For example, is it possible to play at 60 FPS while recording the game at 30 FPS with this program? We also don't know how the built in H.264 encoder on the 600/700 series cards will compress the video in terms of performance while playing and also how the 20 minute recording buffer will work. What happens if you forget to press the button every 20 minutes? Does the previous game play get deleted? This is a good point, for any recording you should NOT be playing on the same drive that you record to, this can lead to some stuttering of the video and severely limits the write speed of the drive. If you have enough space to record to the SSD that's the best option, if not an HDD would be fine if it has high enough write speed. For me, I have 3 HDD's (1x 1TB Caviar Black, 2x 2TB Caviar Black) and an SSD for my OS. I have all my games on the 1TB HDD, and then record to the other two 2TB HDD's using RawCap options in Dxtory that allows me to split the recording onto two different drives and combines the speed of both drives. To record 30 FPS at 1080p, it is recommended to use a drive (or drives) with a total write speed of 185~195 MB/s. I hope this helps.

Hmmm...Might not be a good idea to overclock your CPU with the stock cooler, unless you want temperatures reaching 100c+. I'd recommend waiting until you can afford a better cooling solution, the Noctua NF-D14 is great if you can fit it, or the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo might be good for air cooling. If you're looking for a pre-sealed liquid cooler, you can't go wrong with a Corsair H80i/H100i if you can fit it. The more expensive, but better performing Swiftech h220 is also a great alternative if you can afford it. For reference, I'm running an i5-3570k @4.7GHz at 1.33~1.36v cooled by an H100 and my temps never go above 75c under load.