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As other said, the scaling is not a clean ratio like 4k to 1080p however, personally, this is a minor problem and I would say that for most purposes including productivity 1440p if far superior

Essentially its something you should try to avoid at all costs if you want a playable experience...

Yeah thats a good sound card and should be a nice match for those headphones. Cards like the essence stx are completelly unessesary and are honestly not designed to drive anything save extremely high end headphones.

First off amd cores do not equal intel cores, second most games are not optimized for multi treading/cores so you are more likely to see a bottleneck with an 8 core 3820 than something like a 4670k which is a four core. The only exceptions to this is things like streaming ect which make use of those extra cores. I would go with 8 gb ram. As posted above there is the issue of future proofing however there is no guarantee that even with the new consoles having more cores that 4+ core support will become mainstream any time soon. Looks like a nice build though, nothing that really needs to be changed oh and i second the recomendation to get an ssd.

Indeed, though i cant find reference (like anywhere 0.o) to the specific model you are using though perhaps drivers like the CTE 440 might work...

neither, dont buy such an expensive case for a build like that its a complete waste of money...get a fractal design r4 or something...

honestly the lowest end card i would buy would be a 7770 from amd and a 650 (try for 660) from nvidia..any lower end and the price to performance goes down the drain. Note: those two are borderline, if gaming is your goal try and go slightly higher end, as posted above a 7850 would be a good choice

I went with nvidia because i wanted a single card solution that could play games at 1440p and in a surround set up at the time (well last month) nvidia's gpu's are head and shoulders above amd's. Thus i had a choice between titan and a 780, obv i chose the latter. I am however waiting to see what amd comes up with in the 9xxxx series with much anticipation.

That mouse seems unessesarilly expensive and the speakers seem a bit cheap, a custom loop is never worth it- its more for the looks or for fun, 16 gb of ram may be overkill, if its just a gaming build that amount of ram will be entierly unessesary. I would also consider not getting the h100i and downgrading the ram to 8 gb and invest it in either an ssd or an 8320/ a better board- irrigardless as it is it will game well... edit: and never mind didnt see the second post...

Id go with bad luck, i have never had the same experience.

Sigh i swear politicians seem to be permanantly stuck in an antiquated ideology..and whats worse is that they dont even listen to the population they pretend to represent...

What do you mean the system wont find it, its normal that if you just plugged it in it wont show up in your drives screen. If thats the case just go into disk management and alocate the drive by creating a new simple volume.

sorry for the long response time, and again it depends on your case. id say your best bet would be to pull it out then purchase a new one using the old one as a model

Indeed there is trully no way to tell and it depends on the game. Looking at something like planetside a 3570k is already outdated (ei will not get you above 30-40 fps in large battles which, depending on your gaming standards may or may not be acceptable).

well it should be relatively simple, the biggest issue is going to be getting to the led itself- im not familiar with the R4 so i cant tell you how easy / hard that may be, however once you can get the old LED out it should be as simple as splicing the ends of the new led to the existing power connector. Note: getting at the LED may require some slight modding/cutting deppending on whether its even accesible or not. This is really on a case by case basis though so the best thing to do would just be to take a few hours and fiddle with it. Best of luck. edit: you may also have to resize the hole in which the LED sits in if you cant find one of the same size