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By the way I'm not sure how this became an AMD vs Nvidia competition when this is a thread about customer support.

my ambiant air temp is 70F. Thats +25F under load. it peaked at 50C after an hour of BF4.

Already have it, my air flow is optimal and is running at 35C under load and already tested all of the usual games for over and hour each, over 60 fps on ultra. It works just fine.

I've not experienced that yet. My problem is the ranking system. I had a video card fail on me recently and when the drivers crashed the first time it booted me from the game and cost me 2 ranks for it. Now I'm 4 ranks under my battle buddy. It puts us in "lvl 52 games" where the other team is all rank 52 and avg 52, but out team is ranging from rank 56 to 46 (give or take) but we avg 52. Somehow we are favored to win so If we win I get .25-.5 or a rank, but if I lose I lose 1 rank OR MORE!

I have a real problem with this. The card itself is a beast. I have nothing bad to say about the card. Looks great, preforms as expected or better, quite as a mouse. I used this as an upgrade to the GTX 760 OC II I've been using for about 4 years now. What annoys me is this; their customer service is useless. The problem starts with their promotion involving World Of Warships, one of my favorite FTP games of all time. On the box it says this, and only this "Exclusive Invite code Diana Cruiser - 15 Days Premium account" (fine print) "Game code redemption July 31 2015 - July 30 2017 - SN and PPID required for redemption." No where does it say any other requirement. Hidden until after you buy your product is the fact that this is only for new Wargaming accounts, and loyal players are excluded from this bonus for buying Asus' product. Asus and/or wargaming need to figure out why a person who has only bought Asus motherboards and graphics cards for any build hes ever done, and someone who had brought 6 plus players to WoWS and single–handedly recruited his own team to the game and purchased multiple premium ships from them gets shafted because I've already played the game. Asus customer support is less than no help. I can't understand their support personnel at all, and they obviously don't understand what I'm saying. It's annoying having to make a big deal over $10.00 (USD) but it's the principle of not screwing a valued customer over $10. Next time make your signage VERY CLEAR on what requirements need to be met to gain this bonus promotion. The best part is I would have bought this card with or without this promotion, but as frustrating as this kind of stuff is to me it makes me rethink my decisions.

Awesome thanks m8, I spend a lot of time building kind of "what if" computers, setting different needs, wants, requirements, and budgets to see what I can come up with and if they are actually good builds so its nice knowing what other people trust and recommend!

Awesome thanks for the info! Anything in particular you favor/recommend?

Heres a question for you, is it just the RM or all corsair PSUs you think are mediocre? I was thinking about upgrading to the AX series in the next build.

Its about 2 years, maybe 2 1/2 years old.

So this may be a bit long winded and drawn out but I would love anyone's input and thoughts on the topic So this (the PC I'm currently using to write this) is my first ever PC build. I designed and built it by myself with fairly limited knowledge of what I was doing. Before even deciding that I wanted to do this there is obviously some background for why and what my goals where. When I first went to university I was given an Apple 17' 2012 laptop. Absolutely amazing school focused portable workstation. After I got into PC gaming I went ahead and studied up and eventually boot camped my Apple for a Windows 7 OS to play windows version steam games on the Apple. It actually fared pretty well but soon started dying and performance started to tank. After about 10 minutes of shopping BestBuys prebuilds found that none would do what I wanted. Back to Youtube I went and for about 2 months and 100s of hours of videos decided, yes hand built was the way to go and I had gathered enough knowledge to pick my parts, albeit in a backwards manner. I started with my case believe it or not. I knew what I wanted my PC to look like from the outside and what requirement I had in mind; It needed to be at least full tower, have many fan options, and a window on the side, (obviously have to show it off a little when its done), and I knew that the more modular the cages and other accessories were the better. This led me to Corsairs Obsidian 650D, a monster of a tower with many rad positions (if I needed them) a big window on the side and plenty of airflow, something I was overly afraid of for my first build. Next I moved on to the other easy things, I chose how much storage I needed and how I wanted to set it up. I went with a Samsung 840 EVO 250gb for OS and essential storage and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB for game storage. Fairly simple and easy to set up. Another fairly easy choice for me was the PSU, while looking at reviews and personal opinion after finding Corsairs general build quality I went with a Corsair RM 650, plenty of power for what I wanted and very reliable. It was also rated at 80+ gold, another big + for me. This next piece was the hardest part for me to choose, the CPU. The choice between Intel and AMD was pretty difficult to me. One big mistake on my part was that I was very wrapped up in speed and found myself drawn to AMDs much faster processors. I think the easiest way to explain this is to tell you my final choice then tell you how I came to it, and please feel free to blow holes in my reasoning. So I chose to go with the AMD FX-4350 and here's why; It was far cheaper than any comparable Intel CPU at $99.99 USD (although looking back my comparisons may have been very skewed). Its base Freq of 4.2 GHz and build in turbo meant that I shouldn't have to OC the the CPU to get great performance out of it, as I was very afraid to ruin the CPU by incorrectly overclocking it. It was built on the AM3+ socket which at the time meant if it didn't work for me or I wanted to upgrade later, that socket would work for any future (for the most part) AMD CPUs that came to market. For me Intel had been something that concerned me, with many reviewers saying that the consumer version SKUs were very basic, no OC ability and basically for prebuilt PCs, i.e. they don't give any freedom and you're basically stuck with what you buy. On the other hand the K model SKUs were very much for experienced enthusiasts, and the only reason to get an i7 K SKU was to overclock the bajesus out of it or you wont get your moneys worth and its money you would be spending on the K and not the performance if you don't OC it properly. This lead me to AMD reviews, which seamed more on the line of "this product is OCed for you out of the box don't worry about it to much if you don't know how to do it yourself" and that they were very user friendly with very little reason to go into the BIOS unless you had a specific goal in mind. Next was a bit harder choice and one that would get changed in the store when it came time to buy everything. I had originally planed to buy an Asus R9-270X GPU. After deciding on the AMD CPU I started to really favor them and also was under some crazy impression that AMD CPU + AMD GPU = Best performance. Thankfully I was wrong and was also forced to change to an Nvidia card. At this point I don't think I would buy and AMD GPU anymore for really any reason. In the end I ended up with and ASUS GTX 760 DCII OC 2GB. This is honestly one of my favorite buys of the whole build. Coupled with Asus' GPU tweak I'm not afraid at all to OC this bad boy and it works wonderfully at anything I throw at it. I think the last thing I'g going to go into is the MOBO and Ram, together as that how I had to pick them and some of the trouble I ran into were because of them. I went ahead and got the Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 and was dead set on it for a few reasons I'll list below, but didn't give the QVL much notice. After building my entire system on newegg I took it to PCPartPicker and realized my Ram was not supported by the Sabertooth, after hours and hours checking dozens of DIMMS finally when back to the QVL and started searching for ram by QVL listed serial numbers. I found 1 ... 1 !!! set of ram that was compatible that I actually liked and trusted. Now onto my second big mistake. I printed out my parts list.. and took it to Fry's so I could get the experiance of grabbing everything I wanted and putting it in my cart. Well Fry's didnt have that one set of ram that would work. Well dang, lets just grab this its close enough right?.. yeah no. It was the difference between Corsair Vengeance and Vengeance LP. So I walked out with the wrong set of 2x4gb DIMMS and was supprised when my system only showed 4gb of ram. Needless to say a few months later I went to BestBuy and got the correct set and now have 12 GB of ram, 8 in Duel channel and 4 in Single. Last but not least in case anyone wondered why I stuck with the Sabertooth in the first place. - I actually like the colors, totally aesthetic but hey thats part of a self built rig anyway. - My MOBO needed to have AM3+ for the CPU I wanted (FX-4350) - The biggest factor was the warranty, build quality, and overall reliability This being my first build I wanted a MOBO that could take me not really knowing what I was doing and not try to blow up in my face, figuratively speaking. Being able to take my first overclocking attempts and sound alarms that I done goofed was a plus, and just overall knowing if I did something wrong odds are the MOBO would be okay. So in short... yeah short... sorry this was so long but to anyone who made it throught this please let me know what you think and where you think I went wrong. One last this just for clarity here is my full parts list. Processor – AMD FX-4350 4.2 GHz Cooler Master Hyper 212 CPU Cooler Motherboard – Asus Sabretooth 990FX 2.0 Memory – 8 Gb (2x4 Gb) Corsair Vengeance Pro 1600 MHz -- 4 Gb Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHz GPU – Asus GTX 760 2 Gb Storage – Samsung 840 EVO 250 Gb (OS Storage) Seagate Barracuda 1 Tb (Mass storage) PSU – Corsair RM650 Case – Corsair Obsidian 650D

Totally off topic, so dont "Smite" me for it (yes I noticed Au Puch @OP) Anyway be sure to check Asus' (or anyone elses) QVL for compatible Ram... I was stupid and got the Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 and was dead set on it for a few reasons I'll list below, but didn't give the QVL much notice. After building my entire system on newegg I took it to PCPartPicker and realized my Ram was not supported by the Sabertooth, after hours and hours checking dozens of DIMMS finally when back to the QVL and started searching for ram by QVL listed serial numbers. I found 1 ... 1 !!! set of ram that was compatible that I actually liked and trusted. Now onto my second big mistake. I printed out my parts list.. and took it to Fry's so I could get the experiance of grabbing everything I wanted and putting it in my cart. Well Fry's didnt have that one set of ram that would work. Well dang, lets just grab this its close enough right?.. yeah no. It was the difference between Corsair Vengeance and Vengeance LP. So I walked out with the wrong set of 2x4gb DIMMS and was supprised when my system only showed 4gb of ram. Needless to say a few months later I went to BestBuy and got the correct set and now have 12 GB of ram, 8 in Duel channel and 4 in Single. Last but not least in case anyone wondered why I stuck with the Sabertooth in the first place. - I actually like the colors, totally aesthetic but hey thats part of a self built rig anyway. - My MOBO needed to have AM3+ for the CPU I wanted (FX-4350) - The biggest factor was the warranty, build quality, and overall reliability This being my first build I wanted a MOBO that could take me not really knowing what I was doing and not try to blow up in my face, figuratively speaking. Being able to take my first overclocking attempts and sound alarms that I done goofed was a plus, and just overall knowing if I did something wrong odds are the MOBO would be okay. Anyway there it is, I know its long but hope its worth the read, and btw if you need a duo q partner in smite add me same username.