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I need a new keyboard!!! and cherry mx browns would be perfect, and besides that all of those peripherals look freaking AWESOME with the matte black(ish) finish. The headphones looks especially nice, not sure if that Japanese pine wood will make the drivers sound any better, but hot damn do they look nice with a wood finish. I might just buy them anyways even if i dont win lol

Thanks for all the advice, I actually found a MicroCenter about an hour away from me. A little farther away then I would want to drive but found some pretty good deals there, let me know what you think. I posted some kinks below. http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntk=all&N=4294966995+4294964566+4294935721&cat=0021%3C%3E%3C%3ECore-i5-%3a-Intel-%3a-Processors%2fCPUs-%3a-Computer-Parts-%3a-Micro-Center http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntk=all&N=4294966996+4294963449+4294910772+4294963446&sortby=pricelow&cat=0001%3C%3E%3C%3EATX-%3a-LGA-1150-%3a-Intel-%3a-Motherboards-%3a-Computer-Parts-%3a-Micro-Center

Hello everyone, So i recently decided that i would like to finally upgrade from my AMD Athlon X4 860K. I have decided I want to go with an i5 mostly because its the best option for the budget I have, and also I believe its a good cpu. So what I have to work to with is about $200-$250 budget and would also like the new mobo to be included in that price. I also understand that at the price I'm working with the core i3 or the G3258 would be more afforadble, but I really want a true quad core cpu (not that the i3 with hyper threading isn't awesome bc it is), but I defiantly want four cores. This PC will mostly be used for school (papers, some VHDL programming etc), Media streaming like youtube, netflix, hbo etc. and course for gaming. I'm not a HUGE gamer, but i do like to play a lot of action games and FPS games. I'm not so into overclocking either so thats not something I have to have. Basically I would like everyones opinion on what would be the best i5 (or other cpu) for my needs, while not having to pay more for features I probably wouldnt use. I hope this enough info for you suggestions, if you need anything else like the specs of all my other components just let me know. Thanks guys!!

I think everything is running okay. I just got done doing some load test on the cpu. I used 3 different monitoring systems just to get an average, i used HWmonitor, AIDA64(thanks Opcode), and the utility that came with my mobo. At idle all the programs gave the same reading of 28-30 degrees. I used prime95 and did a stress test for about 15 mins and the highest temps i got for all 3 programs was 46 degrees. These were more of the numbers I was expecting to see especially with a water cooler even being a cheap one. Though for some reason still in HWmonitor package temp under the athlon cpu is still about 50 degrees at idle. Not sure why this is, but im just going to ignore that i guess since all the other programs values matched each other. Thanks for the help guys!!

I have the A/C on all the time so the ambient temp is never above 73 degrees Fahrenheit. My last mobo I had in this system was in the same room and same spot. And it would show idle temps at like 43-45 with the stock cooler As soon as I get back from work I will try AIDa64 and see what I get. But even in the bios with the stock cooler I would see the cpu temp sit at 60 degrees sometimes and the mobo would be steady at 30. After the water cooler installed I see it sit at about 38-39 in the bios I haven't put it under load yet. Spent most of the night doing some research about it and re-applying thermal paste. When I get back from work I'll do some test and post the results. Thanks

Currently having some pretty high temps on my athlon x4 860k. So just upgraded my motherboard to an asrock fm2a88x extreme4+ motherboard. Got everything installed and booted into windows no problem, after installing all the new drivers and getting everything set up I started to do some monitoring. Using HWmonitor im getting some funny results. Ill post a pic of these. But at idle under my motherboard temps it shows a steady 33-34 degree, but under the Athlon x4 860k package temps it shows 49-50 degrees. Is something wrong here? Also on my old mother board a biostar hi-fi i would use core temp and get about 40 degrees at idle with the stock cooler, but with this new asrock mobo core temp doesnt even work. As soon as i open it it starts at 50 degrees and just drops all the way to 0, obviously cant be right. Any ideas of whats going on here? Am i just not looking at this right? Also there is no overclock everything is stock and also have a Corsair H55 on it now. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks