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Because people who don't know better will buy it just because it says it.

No, the 7700k is currently the fastest IPC CPU on the market and (generally speaking) the best for gaming. You will have no bottleneck at all.

If it doesn't have OS files on it you should be able to just copy all the files from one to the other, then take out the old one and remap the new one to the same drive letter. I've done this before (just had game installs and media on it) without issue.

open Disk manager
right click on the drive partition
click "Change drive letter and paths"

Yes, you're correct in any games that don't multi-thread efficiently. I should have been more specific. It is the individual thread usage that matters, not total CPU usage. I should have specified that I meant that individual threads are not at 100%.

DPI is like distance scaling. Basically the sensitivity of the mouse, high DPI means more sensitive (smaller mouse movement = larger pointer movement). Polling rate is how often the mouse reads it's location.
 
It's not exactly the same but DPI is kinda like monitor resolution, while polling rate is like monitor refresh rate.

DPI is like distance scaling. Basically the sensitivity of the mouse, high DPI means more sensitive (smaller mouse movement = larger pointer movement). Polling rate is how often the mouse reads it's location.
 
It's not exactly the same but DPI is kinda like monitor resolution, while polling rate is like monitor refresh rate.

A few clarifications:
 
- These are not consumer Volta cards, they are the GV100s (Tesla cards)
- The DGX-1 contains 8 Tesla V100 cards for a total of 40,960 CUDA cores (5120 CUDA cores per card compared to the 3584 the 1080Ti has).
- 960 Tflops (120 per V100) is referring to HALF-PRECISION (FP16, actually it's mixed precision so not even FP16, more like FP16+FP32) whereas the 11.3 Tflops of the 1080Ti is talking about single-precision (FP32, which is what most games use) and you cannot directly compare them. A single V100 can do ~14 (maybe 15 depending on the source) Tflops of FP32 so the increase is not as insane as you think.
- The 960 Tflops also counts the new tensor core tech (640 per V100) which is not available in Pascal and as far as I know will probably not be available in consumer cards or will not actually help in gaming unless devs start to code for it. IIRC the tensor cores allow for mixed precision workloads (which may be nice for gaming in the future).
- The 120Tflops of FP16 per V100 is only referring to performance in deep learning applications which the DGX-1 is specifically designed for and in no way will translate to gaming workloads which are very different.
 
The only thing we know here is that the flagship Volta cards will probably have about 5,120 CUDA cores (compared to the 3584 of the 1080Ti) which is about 40% more cores. The FP32 of the flagship Volta will probably be around 14-15 Tflops which is  24-33% faster than the 1080Ti. The V100 has 21 billion transistors which is 40% more than the P100s 15 billion (keep in mind the 1080Ti only has 12 billion). And it may be possible that future developers will be able to use mixed precision in games to accelerate certain tasks which can improve performance independently of traditional metrics like CUDA core count and clock speed.
 
What I would say are safe guesses regarding the flagship consumer Volta cards is that they will be somewhere 20-40% faster than flagship Pascal in games, they will probably have decently larger L1/L2 caches, they will likely draw between 250-350W of power, and they will have a much higher performance/watt ratio than Pascal. Other than those guesses you can't really tell anything from this information (just look at all the massive differences between GP100 and Titan Xp/1080Ti). I wouldn't even be surprised if the flagship consumer Voltas don't use HBM2 (maybe GDDR6 or even GDDR5X instead), I wouldn't be surprised if they don't include tensor cores (for mixed precision), and I wouldn't be surprised if their clocks are lower than the Pascal clocks due to energy density issues.

The best option is a UPS, the minimum option is a surge protector. You also better make sure your building's power is on a circuit breaker.

The best option is a UPS, the minimum option is a surge protector. You also better make sure your building's power is on a circuit breaker.

One more thought: You said you RAM memtest86 but did you run the extended test rather than the quick run? Did you also try to run Windows Memory Diagnostic (again the extended one, not the quick one) as well? Did you run them multiple times?
 
I had some bad RAM that only failed on Extended Windows Memory Diagnostic and only after the second attempt, RAM tests can be weird and not find an error during the first run and not find deep errors when only running the quick checks. I recommend you run them both a couple more times in the extended mode to be sure it's not RAM. The reason I say this is it sounds a lot like a RAM issue which is why I suspect you may just have missed it on the first check.

Noctua NF-F12 fans are pretty popular and quiet. If you want to stick with the same color scheme then you can consider the Corsair ML series fans (magnetic levitation bearings) which are also pretty quiet.
 
Just keep in mind that the fans should be below 0.25A (<3W) each (keep the total for all fans below 0.6A) or you'll overpower the AIO which has a max of 1.0A (recommended max of 0.8A) for the fans+pump+LED.

8GB is generally enough for gaming but I regularly have more and more games using 10-12GB of RAM (e.g. BF1, PUBG, etc) even at medium/high settings so personally I'd say 16GB is a good spot is you want to guarantee you always have enough and don't have to rely on virtual memory.

He is right in many cases and was always right... two years ago. But games are changing fast and using more and more RAM, it's the same argument with "games don't use more than 4-threads" which used to be totally true but now they want more and more, you can already see this with BF1 where a non-HT quad-core can barely keep up even if it has a higher IPC. That isn't to say that 8GB will be a huge bottleneck but it can start to affect performance if the game wants more. This becomes even more apparent if you don't have a ton of vRAM because assets will then start to load in the slower system RAM and you'll see texture pop-ins and other issues. In my case, most modern games tend to use up all 4GB of vRAM I have which increases system RAM requirements even more.

Sounds like your pump may have died. Is it still working?

Completely understandable, the only reason I have 32GB is for the occasional Premiere work and some of the basic machine learning I do with large datasets that eats through RAM like it's free candy... Having said that, if I were to build a gaming PC right now I would always opt for 16GB over 8 since I only upgrade every 4-5yrs and I'd rather have too much than not enough...
 
BTW, hello fellow Belgian...
 
I'm dangerously close to finishing my stash of Chokotoff... so I may need to take a trip back to the motherland soon...

AF is typically preferred for case fans since there's not much resistance and they give more airflow. SP is better for radiators and heatsinks since they have more resistance and need the extra pressure to push air through.
 
AF is perfect for your use.

8GB is generally enough for gaming but I regularly have more and more games using 10-12GB of RAM (e.g. BF1, PUBG, etc) even at medium/high settings so personally I'd say 16GB is a good spot is you want to guarantee you always have enough and don't have to rely on virtual memory.

I wouldn't do it. Although it may work fine (that system will probably use <200W), it's just not enough of a safety margin IMO and it'd be better to get at least 300W just to be safe.

As someone who owns two computers using FX chips: They're terrible at single threaded operations and their multi-threaded scaling is also bad. I have an 8 year old laptop with a dual core CPU that has a better single core Cinebench score than an OCed FX CPU.
 
Just don't bother with them, trust me.

A few clarifications:
 
- These are not consumer Volta cards, they are the GV100s (Tesla cards)
- The DGX-1 contains 8 Tesla V100 cards for a total of 40,960 CUDA cores (5120 CUDA cores per card compared to the 3584 the 1080Ti has).
- 960 Tflops (120 per V100) is referring to HALF-PRECISION (FP16, actually it's mixed precision so not even FP16, more like FP16+FP32) whereas the 11.3 Tflops of the 1080Ti is talking about single-precision (FP32, which is what most games use) and you cannot directly compare them. A single V100 can do ~14 (maybe 15 depending on the source) Tflops of FP32 so the increase is not as insane as you think.
- The 960 Tflops also counts the new tensor core tech (640 per V100) which is not available in Pascal and as far as I know will probably not be available in consumer cards or will not actually help in gaming unless devs start to code for it. IIRC the tensor cores allow for mixed precision workloads (which may be nice for gaming in the future).
- The 120Tflops of FP16 per V100 is only referring to performance in deep learning applications which the DGX-1 is specifically designed for and in no way will translate to gaming workloads which are very different.
 
The only thing we know here is that the flagship Volta cards will probably have about 5,120 CUDA cores (compared to the 3584 of the 1080Ti) which is about 40% more cores. The FP32 of the flagship Volta will probably be around 14-15 Tflops which is  24-33% faster than the 1080Ti. The V100 has 21 billion transistors which is 40% more than the P100s 15 billion (keep in mind the 1080Ti only has 12 billion). And it may be possible that future developers will be able to use mixed precision in games to accelerate certain tasks which can improve performance independently of traditional metrics like CUDA core count and clock speed.
 
What I would say are safe guesses regarding the flagship consumer Volta cards is that they will be somewhere 20-40% faster than flagship Pascal in games, they will probably have decently larger L1/L2 caches, they will likely draw between 250-350W of power, and they will have a much higher performance/watt ratio than Pascal. Other than those guesses you can't really tell anything from this information (just look at all the massive differences between GP100 and Titan Xp/1080Ti). I wouldn't even be surprised if the flagship consumer Voltas don't use HBM2 (maybe GDDR6 or even GDDR5X instead), I wouldn't be surprised if they don't include tensor cores (for mixed precision), and I wouldn't be surprised if their clocks are lower than the Pascal clocks due to energy density issues.

Got enough tabs open there mate?

Too tight can be as bad as not tight enough as you may be bending the board and getting poor contact on the CPU. It doesn't need to be more than snugly fit, don't crank down the screws.
 
FYI, this isn't always a good thing as a sealed case with proper airflow will direct the flow of air and avoid dead spots, an open case can sometimes be worse than a closed case.
 
 
That cooler should be giving you much better temps than that (even without a delid). What paste are you using? What is your case fan setup? (with that case you should have at least 2-3 front intake fans and one rear exhaust, also consider removing the top cover to allow more heat to escape.) What are your ambient room temps?
 
Since you only get bad temps while gaming I'm guessing your GPU is heating up your case and you're not getting rid of the hot GPU air efficiently so it's heading up the CPU heatsink and mobo.

Too tight can be as bad as not tight enough as you may be bending the board and getting poor contact on the CPU. It doesn't need to be more than snugly fit, don't crank down the screws.
 
FYI, this isn't always a good thing as a sealed case with proper airflow will direct the flow of air and avoid dead spots, an open case can sometimes be worse than a closed case.
 
 
That cooler should be giving you much better temps than that (even without a delid). What paste are you using? What is your case fan setup? (with that case you should have at least 2-3 front intake fans and one rear exhaust, also consider removing the top cover to allow more heat to escape.) What are your ambient room temps?
 
Since you only get bad temps while gaming I'm guessing your GPU is heating up your case and you're not getting rid of the hot GPU air efficiently so it's heading up the CPU heatsink and mobo.

Too tight can be as bad as not tight enough as you may be bending the board and getting poor contact on the CPU. It doesn't need to be more than snugly fit, don't crank down the screws.
 
FYI, this isn't always a good thing as a sealed case with proper airflow will direct the flow of air and avoid dead spots, an open case can sometimes be worse than a closed case.
 
 
That cooler should be giving you much better temps than that (even without a delid). What paste are you using? What is your case fan setup? (with that case you should have at least 2-3 front intake fans and one rear exhaust, also consider removing the top cover to allow more heat to escape.) What are your ambient room temps?
 
Since you only get bad temps while gaming I'm guessing your GPU is heating up your case and you're not getting rid of the hot GPU air efficiently so it's heading up the CPU heatsink and mobo.