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I have this same exact monitor. It's fantastic. Of course a higher resolution will look better and technically give you a larger canvas to work with, but it's a very good budget UW monitor, and an excellent monitor in general.

Good luck finding them for MSRP.

It is. I bought 2 keys. Both activated Windows and work fine.

Or buy a Windows 10 key for just under $4. http://www.ebay.com/itm/262806476541?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I don't regret getting out of the Bitcoin game... Not at all... I regret everything.

I am aware that 4K is highly graphically intensive instead and not so much CPU intensive. A good CPU will still help quite a bit though. Both the 7700K and a current Ryzen CPU (if optimized for use on all cores) will work very well.

Whelp, I just straight up cancelled my 1700X and AM4 motherboard orders. I primarily use my PC for gaming. I do very little productivity on it that would require the extra cores. The only thing that comes to mind is Handbrake, and even at that I could render the files using QuickSync, which will render as fast as or faster than Ryzen. I game mainly on a 144Hz monitor, and even on that my 3770K would dip a bit. The 1700X, in terms of single threaded performance, is pretty much on par with the 3770K. I plan to move to 4K very soon, and the stronger single threaded performance on the 7700K will quite a bit. Sure, the extra would help on Ryzen as well, if the game I'm playing in 4K has support for all 8 cores, 16 threads. I don't want more of the same for gaming, I want something faster. Ryzen, at the moment, unfortunately is not delivering, and that's a real damn shame. I get it, these are growing pains with a new architecture, but I don't want to wait around for a month or two for a BIOS update that *may* or may not help with FPS in games. I feel like even after some optimizations, the 7700K will still be a more viable option for gaming. I hope I'm wrong, I really do, because AMD to do well, and they will with some workload cases, just not mine and what I plan to use it for.

The Xiaomi Pistons are apparently really good for the price. Or save up the money and get these Japanese earbuds. They're apparently amazing. Here's a review from The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/29/12688698/zero-audio-carbo-tenore-best-earphones-review JVC Gumys are my go-to cheapo earbuds. They sound awesome for the price. Also something to consider OP. https://www.amazon.com/JVC-HAFX5B-Inner-Headphones-Black/dp/B005K925UO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488360165&sr=8-1&keywords=jvc+gumy

@Kiluax I have this exact chair. Racing style, super comfy, fairly inexpensive price ($80 atm). It's awesome. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017VQAXIY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm going to assume that in the UK you guys use a 300 to 850 point scale like here in the US. So, I'm going to tell you how I got my credit score up from nothing. I'm sure the same rules apply to the UK. I haven't even been building up for a full year and I have a score of 730 at the moment with two credit cards, one of the which I just got approved for $5000, and I'm 20, with only 10 months of credit history. What I did was use a secured credit card for the bulk of that time (8 months to be precise). From my experience, this is the quickest way to get your credit score up. There are other ways such as paying off your phone bill, which requires a credit check for you to get (one of my friends is doing this) or taking out a loan and then using that same loan money to pay back the loan (another friend of mine is doing this). They have been doing these things (aka building credit) much longer than I have, yet at the moment their credit scores are in the mid to high 600s while mine is 730. So ya, get a secured credit card. It will require you to put a down payment, and there will be an annual fee, but that's okay, because it's only temporary, and you can get that down payment back. Do that for a while in combination with something like Credit Karma (or the UK equivalent) so you can keep track of your credit score. Every time you check Credit Karma it does *not* impact your score negatively at all, because it is not a hard credit check. I check mine every week, and no points are deducted from me doing so. Lastly, don't be dumb. Don't apply for credit cards willy nilly and pray for the best. That should never be how you apply for credit cards. Do some research on the card you want and Google around for what other people got approved for and what their scores were. Nerd Wallet (or the UK equivalent) is an excellent website for this. TL;DR Get a secured credit card, use Credit Karma and Nerd Wallet (or the UK equivalents), and don't apply for credit cards and hope that you get them. You should *know* if you're going to get approved or not.

If you're interested, I'm selling some server parts.

Luckily I'm right at the limit. I have 2 16GB sticks clocked at 3200MHz. Still sucks that this exists though. Hopefully can come out sooner than 1 to 2 months.

Pretty overpriced, which isn't surprising since it's Razer. Here's some alternatives that cost way less. 50,000mAh for $136 - https://www.amazon.com/MAXOAK-50000mAh-Portable-External-Notebook-Most/dp/B00YP823NA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1487909741&sr=8-3&keywords=laptop+power+bank 23,000mAh for $100 - https://www.amazon.com/RAVPower-23000mAh-Portable-External-Smartphones/dp/B00HFMUBYG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1487909741&sr=8-4&keywords=laptop+power+bank

We do pay taxes on electronics. It depends if the company we are buying from operates in the same state that you reside. For example, let's say I buy something from B&H Photo online and have it shipped to me. Since B&H operates in New York, and I live in Florida, and they don't have any operations here in Florida, they are legally not obliged to charge sales tax. Same goes with Newegg, since Newegg operates in California and a couple other states.

Bought my 1700X and ASRock board as soon as they were available. Hype!!

He doesn't necessarily have to be a citizen in order to live here. He could have a green card or a certain type of visa, etc. So long as he has some kind of valid, non-expired form of ID, he's good. If his valid ID is expired, and he's still living here, then he's technically breaking the law and is supposed to get deported, which makes sense since he would not have a valid form of ID. If he doesn't have a valid form of ID, IMO don't rat him out, but he should expect what's supposed to happen to him if he's caught.

This makes me even more excited to see the 8 core, 16 thread 1700X I'll be getting. I already sold my 3770K based PC. I'm all in on the Ryzen hype!!

We have this Lenovo on sale at the moment. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-110-15isk-15-6-laptop-intel-core-i3-4gb-memory-1tb-hard-drive-black/5496140.p?skuId=5496140

The closest thing we can get to this at the moment is running Linux natively, and then running a Windows VM with GPU passthrough, which is what I plan on doing when I upgrade to Ryzen, because my 3770K does not support GPU passthrough.

Source: https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2017/02/06/verizon-and-t-mobile-engaged-in-a-bizarre-twitter-battle-during-the-super-bowl/ If you watched the Super Bowl, you more than likely saw T-Mobile's commercials ripping on Verizon for charging extra fees. If you haven't seen them, watch them. They're hilarious. Of course this led to Louise from Bob's Burgers to poke fun at Verizon with T-Mobile over Twitter. Not to be outdone, Verizon responded back accordingly, and the rest is history. Top kek