JWMutant

You are basically running the same 8700K as I do, even the revision number is the same. As a reference i run mine at 5100Mhz with voltage on auto and Hyper-Threading disabled, it usually goes to 1.288V max.
 
I am really impressed by those 52°C in Prime95 though, mine gets to 75°C with my poorly mounted 240mm AIO and I just don't wanna torture it too much.

Congrats with winning the lottery.

What cooling are you using to hit that speed at that low temps

looks to be a solid OC 5 ghz at 1.28V id be happy with that

That's really low volts for that clock. You won the silicon lottery good sir...
 
Ever tried to push further? You have tons of room to play with in voltage and temps.

Looks really nice. Is it a stock cpu or did you delid it?

Toying around with some overclocking this morning.
Thoughts?

If you thought you heard it all you havent until a customer comes in with a GPU that "WASNT WORKING" to find out he cut 1/3 of the bus connectors because the card wouldnt fit in the slot on the motherboard!!!

I have had a look at some videos of the 27" Monitors mentioned.
 
I have to say I am still on the fence with this.
 
Yes the 27" monitors are a higher res and more than double the hertz of my current monitor which will give me better gameplay without question and larger field of view. However it is still 27" no matter how I paint that picture. And it seems a little silly to go from a 27" to a 27" despite the extra bells and whistles. 

I personally also bought the XB270HU from Acer and not the Asus ROG PG279Q for the exact same reason.
Same panel, not with useless things like "crosshair mode" (and ok, 165hz (Asus) instead of 144hz (Acer), but wth) and this stuff but 200$ US cheaper.
 
Just didn´t know that Acer made a 34" WQHD G-Sync Display as well, I´d choose that one over the ROG as well.
 
Go with the Acer X34 then. You won´t regret it
 

i would go with the Swift...but not the PG278Q...this is the TN one...i would go with either the PG279Q or the new acer predator XB271HU.
***WARNING: IPS is a gamble make sure you weight the pros and cons before you make your move, i've been lucky with IPS but some are not.

I have the swift and damn what a monitor!

The only con is that it isn't a IPS panel.

I bought an Acer Predator XB270HU just 3 weeks ago and I can really recommend it. Awesome viewing angles, the display itself (1440p, IPS, G-Sync) is just great.
Only one disclaimer: Acer had massive problems in QC with some batches of this model. I had to return the first I got as well, due to BLB and dead pixels. The 2nd one, which sits on my desk is completely fine.

Check when it was manufactured.
 
Some of the earlier version of this monitor had issues with the firmware. Acer released a updated firmware that can be obtained by contacting them directly. 

As I said to explain how to get around it would break forum policy. And I for 1 am not going to get a black mark against my name purely because someone cant google "How to start a game with XX XX".
 
Thats the best hint you will get from anyone.

Sorry thats not how it work.
 
They ask you to start the game with the disc in there sometimes even as a once off just so you can verify the game is genuine and not a copy.
There are ways around this issue, however none will tell you how to do it on these forums as it would be breaking forum policies. 

If this is a new build and you have not installed windows yet then its a easy fix.
 
It just means the HDD you are trying to boot from has no OS or the MBR is not present.
 
Delete key to get into bios and select what you want to boot to or F12 while the PC is booting to select the OS installation media.

Just google it cant be that hard to figure it out wont say since against COC.
im pretty sure it's not an ISO.

lol got it fixed via googling

If this is a new build and you have not installed windows yet then its a easy fix.
 
It just means the HDD you are trying to boot from has no OS or the MBR is not present.
 
Delete key to get into bios and select what you want to boot to or F12 while the PC is booting to select the OS installation media.

When you go to your task manager it will tell you what process is using the disc as indicated by a % figure.
However this is typical behavior of malware as well.  

My Daily Driver
 
 

Annnd my Gaming PC

some motherboards have a feature called "fast boot" (my msi board has this)
it skips the bios pretty much.
you can turn this feature off with the program your mobo maker provides, but idk if yours has one

To be fair, EA has gotten SO much better at releasing finished games.