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The new Blade 14" looks pretty sweet. I've never had a dedicated gaming laptop, that looks like an excellent choice.

The i7-2700K is still a very capable CPU, considerably faster than most out there. You won't have any problems.

Just because it is the "best on the market" doesn't mean it is a good value or the most important component of a gaming rig. Games, even the most demanding, are simply not as CPU intensive as they are GPU intensive (e.g. my old 2500K maxed out FO4 easily with usage usually under 25-30%). If you are building a computer specifically for gaming there is no reason, and will not be a reason in the near future, for more than four cores / four threads. A rig with an i5-6600K and a GTX 980 will be more viable for much longer than a rig with an i7-6700K and a 390 if the purpose of the rig is gaming. With a $120 price delta between the two CPUs that $120 would be better moved to grab one of these over the 390: http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GAMING-GTX-980-4G/dp/B00OD38516/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1460366315&sr=1-2&keywords=gtx+980

You can get any of the speeds mentioned and easily configure them with their XMP profiles in the bios. Very simple to do, takes a couple keypresses and thats it.

If gaming is all you do then really the price to performance would be better offset by grabbing an i5-4690K and putting the rest of the money into a video card. Even with a good amount of multi-tasking the 4690K will hold up well - I only recently upgraded from my old i5-2500K to the rig in my signature because the software I am currently writing required me to. On the older sandy bridge i5-2500K I was able to play Farcry 4 maxed out at 1080p, have several excel windows with thousands to tens of thousands of cells open, a couple of programming IDEs and very large word documents (300+ pages) with no problems. Oh, and a typical load of 20 ish Firefox tabs. If this sounds like more than what you do (probably is) then the i5 will be fine. Take the savings from not getting the i7-6700K, DDR4, Z170 board, etc. and get a 980 or 980Ti. The Devil's Canyon chips will be viable to max out pretty much anything at 1080p for at least another 3-4 years. If you REALLY want the Z170 chipset and the new USB 3.1 features, etc. then the i5-6600K is the budget sweet spot.

The ranking script did not pick up my build :mellow:

Hardware CASE: Antec 300 PSU: EVGA 430W (80 Plus Cert) MB: ASUS M5A78L/USB3 CPU: AMD FX-6300 (Six Core) HS: Stock AMD Fan/Heatsink RAM: 4GB DDR3 1600 RAID CARD: None SSD: Kingston NOW V300 120GB HDD 1: 1 x 3TB WD Green HDD 2: 1 x 2TB Hitachi 7K3000 Deskstar HDD 3: 3 x 2TB Hitachi 7K3000 Ultrastar Software and Configuration: Server runs Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2. The hard drives are set up using Windows Server's storage spaces. I have two spaces, one non-mirrored and one mirrored, configured in an 11TB advertised (actual capacity 10TB) pool. Usage: It is used for home backup of my desktop/laptop, my fiancee's laptop and my room mates desktop/laptop. I also use it to host a personal cloud and various other misc. tasks. Backup: Currently it is backed up to a 5TB WD MyBook weekly and the necessary files for bare metal and client recovery are backed up to a 1TB WD Passport three times a day. I will eventually need to get a second 5TB external hard drive and stripe them as the server continues to fill up (not everything has been moved to it yet). Additional info: Got the AMD six core processor and motherboard together for under $80 during a microcenter sale. I will soon upgrade to 8GB of RAM and probably will get a more efficient/reliable power supply in the coming weeks. I also still need a UPS. Photo's: