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Batcat00, what helped you make up your mind? Do you have a 4k monitor? 1 vote for the x35p, one for the x27.

Guys, I'm struggling - later this year the Acer Predator x27 and x35p monitors are coming out, and I can afford one of them!!!! ; but which? I've been doing the maths: The x27 has 67% more pixels. They are both the same vertical size, but the x35p is 30% wider. (I don't care about the difference between 200hz and 144, and should I care about tobii eye tracking?) I'll be upgrading from a 29'' 1080p 60Hz Ultrawide and: I love the extra horizontal space while playing games like Witcher 3 or GTA 5. And for productivity.. having full-size documents side by side is a dream. but 70% of the time I have black bars: While watching youtube, playing Overwatch, Starcraft, or Dark Souls 3, and the constant switch to 16:9 for cutscenes in all games is not great. If you could buy one of these beauties, which would you pick and why? Other info: (I don't do video editing) (I do spend 10h+ a day at my computer for work/play) (Till I get a tv, my monitor is where I watch movies/tv) (I have a GTX 1080)

Because of my job I'll be changing country twice in 2017 and another 2 times in 2018, my ATX tower is just not going to cut it and I am selling a lot of its components. I could buy a gaming laptop and use my MBP just for work, but if only there were a way to come home from work, plug my laptop in to charge, and just reboot it into a gaming beast - that'd be good. Also, till I am getting tired of the my tower's noise level at idle.

Will my Gigabyte Gaming 7 z170x motherboard work as a Thunderbolt 3 dock for my Macbook Pro 13'' running windows 10? Yup, that's the idea I just had. I will be switching to the MBP for work reasons but I still love gaming. For many of the games I play the cpu is not stressed at all, so an eGPU (GTX 1080 in the AKiTiO Node) might work (though the Node is $300). I also have a lot of peripherals and dongles, so I might end up having to get a thunderbolt 3 dock ($200+). And I just though... my motherboard has thunderbolt 3, PCIe slots, USB slots, ethernet and more... and I have a power supply. Could I build an open air test bench kind of set-up to work as a dock for my MBP (booted as windows)? If anyone can imagine this working, or can offer me a more elegant way to do this... that'd be great.

I totally understand and agree, but looking at the pipeline of announced games none of them need the step up in hardware. And though new games will come that put our puny graphics to shame - they will not be here for years (at least one or two). So who would buy the 1080 on May 27th?

We know very little about the GTX 1080's Gaming performance, but lets assume it is awesome. Most people can run most games at 1080p with a GTX 960, and the 980Ti can run things very well at anything less than 4k. So, if you could upgrade to a computer with twice the power of the GTX 980, what would you do with that power? Are there games that could leverage it? Then again, could be fun to run Moded Skyrim. (I have a GTX 960 and a 2160x1080 60hz monitor, is the 1080 meaningless unless I buy a VR Headset?)

I would love to win the Kova. My girlfriend and I discovered gaming in College and it's been so fun, but dare I confess... we both play on laptops. I have an Corsair Scimitar mouse that I love, but she keeps putting off getting a mouse. In between piano and essay writing her wrists can get pretty sore, so I was going to buy her a mouse for St. Valentines (and play Borderlands 2 - our first game together). I didn't know about this mouse till now - and I can't find any reviews on YouTube, but if I win I'll post a video of us doing Borderlands 2's Captain Flynt boss fight. As always, great videos Linus, thanks to all you guys.