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I'm looking to buy a UPS for my setup. My home has fairly frequent brownouts throughout the day and I'm looking to get a UPS to help my setup cope with that. I've been through a few PSU calculators and calculated my total wattage needed. At absolute max load and balls to the wall overclocking my PC will draw a little less than 500W. I like my PC to run cool and silent so I usually don't overclock that much for day to day use. So I'm looking at 500W for my PC and 100W total for my monitors at max brightness. Also I have one of those PSUs that needs a special UPS like Corsair's AXi series. That looks like I'm looking for a 1000VA or higher UPS. I don't really care about the battery backup stuff during a power outage. I just want constant voltage and clean wattage being delivered to my PC. I'm just not super well versed in UPS specs and which ones are which. I'm looking to spend about $150 or less.

I'm looking to upgrade my monitor from a 24" 144Hz G-Sync TN monitor (Acer XB240H). My number one reason is IPS. I want my monitor's colors to look awesome and not shift every time I move my head. Right now I find myself constantly readjusting my current monitor because of the extremely narrow viewing angles. Now I've read about both monitors and I've seen equally positive and negative reviews about each monitor. I'm just not sure which one is better. I don't care about the stands or OSD because I won't use the stand and I'll use the OSD once. Basically I want an IPS 144Hz G-Sync monitor and I'm not sure which is better.

Thanks, those are a lot cheaper than the others I was looking at. Turns out that they don't have corners in red though. Strange they only have the mounts in red but not the corners. All of this because Corsair doesn't sell any non-LED Static Pressure 140mm fans. Believe it or not Corsair discontinued their SP140 fans. They still sell the regular AF140mm fans but I don't want to put those on my rads. I'm pretty happy with the Noctua fans though. Dead silent while moving decent amounts of air.

I believe the material is silicone according to Noctua's website now that I've looked it up.

I'm looking to paint the anti-vibration corner pads of a Noctua fan a different color. I was going to get the Noctua Chromax things. It's like $15 per fan just to have a different color corners pads and mounting sticks. I have Noctua iPPC fans and I want to have red corner pads and red mounting sticks. I figured I could buy some paint for less than the $75 it'd cost to buy pre-colored from Noctua. A few other things I have questions about. Painting the thermal armor on my Asus Sabertooth motherboard and the metal tops of Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM. I'm a bit of a noob when I comes to modding and paints so bear with me.

I bought my 970 used, 79.9% ASIC, overclocks to 1580MHz (matches stock 980) for $270. And the prices I stated are how much I would sell my 970 for and buy a 980/980Ti for. Yeah my 970 pretty much is a stock 980 with the high overclocks I have on it. Fallout 4 not supporting SLI is a deal breaker though.

I am likely to upgrade to one of those gorgeous curved ultra wide monitors that LG has. I'm wondering if it is worth the money to jump all the way to the 980Ti or just to a 980. Selling my 970 and buying a 980/980Ti is what I am going to do. It would cost me $100 to upgrade to a 980 and $250 to upgrade to a 980Ti. I'm currently running a 970 and playing at 2560x1440. In modern games I have to turn my settings to high or medium to get 60fps. With the 30% increase in pixels the fps is just going to lower. So which will give me a better value? The 980 is about 20% faster than my 970. And the 980Ti is about 60% faster than my 970. I'm sort of leaning towards the 980Ti, since about 70fps on ultra at 1440p would roughly translate to about 55-60fps at 21:9.

My Firestrike scores went from 7500 to 11000 just by swapping my CPU from an i3 to a 2500k. Most games I noticed at least a 15% increase in performance. An i3 with a 970 is pretty much slightly better than an i5 with a 960. I would seriously recommend you getting an i5 if you want to play games from the past 3 years at high settings.

My rig is an i5-2000k 4.5GHz w/ Hyper 212 EVO. An Asus 970 Strix OC (1463/8000) and a NZXT Noctis 450. The hard drive cages are removed and I'm running 3x120mm front intake and 1x140mm rear exhaust (also going to be throwing the 140mm on the top for exhaust and putting my new LTT edition 140mm fan in the rear.) Both my GPU and CPU sit at about 50% fan speed at 60C/50C respectively. The case fans and CPU fan are at the same speeds (I use the PWM fan hub for all of the fans.) The air coming out of the rear exhaust is noticeably warm if that makes any difference. The point of this is that my GPU is rather loud compared to the rest of the system. I was wondering what my options were. One question I had is how much of an effect would my case fan speed have on the GPU temperature? I was thinking about throwing an AIO 240mm/280mm water cooler on the GPU to reduce noise. The thing that isn't the option is lowering my overclock. I play at 1440P at 60-120Hz and I need all the help I can get.

Well, that may me a problem. I have one fan on the top and two in the front. I'm 90% sure I can reach the top. Not so much about the front. I was going to grab one 980 Ti and see how it performs before I grab two. I looked it up and it'll be a tight fit. My case is 465mm long and the tubing is 400mm long. Which leaves me about 2 inches for an intake fan (push) and the inch or two where the tubes come out of the card.

Why does everyone insist on voicing their opinion instead of contributing to a discussion or answering my questions? Your comment, and many others, are completely unnecessary, irrelevant and unneeded.

These are a bit crude comparisons but I do think that the 980 Ti would do fine on 4K, but on 1080p and 1440p it may show its struggle with the i3-4150. Thanks a lot. I appreciate the helpfulness. Pretty much all that I need out of it is above 30 fps with G Sync. I've heard that 40fps in games looks fluid to the eye on it.

I'll be fair in saying Far Cry 4 is a bit more multithreaded than some other titles, but you'll encounter these sorts of bottlenecks. I'm sure you can achieve a minimum of 60FPS in just about every title, but I don't know how consistent that number will be and what minimums would be like. Thanks you very much for an informative answer and telling me something I didn't already know. So I'm looking at over 60fps with a 980Ti on top of G Sync. I've looked all over to find CPU benchmarks such as that. I really wanted to find one at 4K but can't seem to find dual core 4K benchmarks. Closest thing I've found is a video that Luke did where a super old CPU and a 5960X were the exact same in Tomb Raider at 4K. Where in that game CPU doesn't matter at all.

Well, I would have gotten an informative answer if I simply didn't put Mac inside the question. Anyways, let's rephrase the question and scenario to make some ignorant people happier. Let's say I have an i3-4150 and I match it with a GTX 980Ti. What would I expect from this system? Obviously, without a doubt it won't perform anywhere as well as a 5960x would. But that's not my question. What I think I'd get out of it is high frame rate 1080P, 1440P 60fps and older games at 4K. Now aside from that, I have an 480GB Intel 730 SSD as my Windows boot drive that I use currently with a BenQ RL2455HM as my Windows monitor. I plan to buy one of the 4K IPS Gsync panels when they are released.

The situation is that I have a brand new Macbook Pro. It has a Thunderbolt 2 port on it. eGPU enclosures are a way to add some impressive graphical power to my system. And the question I have is 'How much of a bottleneck will a dual core CPU, with hyper threading, have on different types of gaming?'. Ex - 1080P, 1440P, 4K, 144Hz. My CPU is in the range of a i3-4150. I do have a plan to deck out my setup with $3000 worth of computer hardware. But if I could get a taste of that for only under $1000, that would be awesome. I will be using a 4K Gsync panel with a 980Ti.