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Honestly I spent about 120 canadian in a day and didn't look back. Last year was a lot of deliberation and not even 50 spent over the whole sale. So I believe it. Not sure why but this time there was great advertising for games that I wanted to play and ones I hadn't heard of that interested me. Must be some market research at work. GG Steam.

Meh, I call this BS

Why would the GP100 cutdown use GDDR5 instead of HBM2? This implies that the GP100 should have two different memory controllers on the die, IMHO these numbers are just invented and thrown onto a chart

Ok guys, I just went with it. i3 6100 already payed for !!!
 
Thank you for all your help.

so you do need peripherals such as mouse, keyboard and monitor?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($374.95 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($104.99 @ Micro Center) 
Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($154.99 @ Micro Center) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($64.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($149.89 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($119.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB FTW ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($639.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 w/Window (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.99 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($84.99 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $1794.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-15 14:18 EDT-0400

Yeah if you can get a 290 for a good price go for that. Depending how big of a city you live in you should be able to find one sub $200 if you're in Canada and sub $150 if you're in the US.
 
And even though you may be cpu limited in some games, if you have the funds to upgrade again in the near future, picking up a used haswell cpu and mobo would really make that 290 shine.
 
Also some people have been able to successfully flash a 290x rom onto a 290 although i'm not sure the specifics about that. You'd have to google it up.
 
As for the 7000 series cards at least get a 280x or 380 since the driver support will be better despite them being the same card. I do believe 7000 parts ARE legacy now.

The processor shouldn't matter if its between the two. Gaming performance will be similar but the 5820k has more PCI-E lanes and will allow you to run SLI at 16x-8x instead of 8x-8x with the 6700k. Also I believe the PCI-E 1x lanes are decoupled on the 6700k so they don't take away from your total lane count when using extra peripherals. 
 
You will really get similar performance from either processor though as running a card at 8x vs 16x on pci-e Gen3 is very minimal. You'll see like 1fps difference in your max FPS so its really preference. The x99 boards are still really expensive too so take that into consideration.
 
1440p: 980ti
1080p: 970
 
Power supply go for something 80Plus Gold at least. This will give you arond 90% efficiency and good clean power to your components. EVGA supernovas are really good. As are the Corsair RMI units. Something like the 750G2 or the RM750I would be good.
 
Cooling you can go for a Noctua NH-D14 if you wanna go air, trades blows with the H100i from corsair (dual 120mm AIO liquid cooler) the only thing is that you have to be careful when transporting as the noctua weighs about a KG.
 
As for case just make sure you get something with enough space and good airflow. Fractal Design Define R5 is a really solid case with enough room for whatever you need.
 
Oh and for storage you don't need anything super crazy unless you want moar epeen. Just get a good reliable SSD for boot OS (250GB is good size) and a decent size HDD for long term storage (2TB is typical these days) and if you really want you can get a really big SSD and throw a bunch of games on it as well. As it stands my 250gb has two or three large games on it that benefit from a faster drive (load times, Arkham Knight and Fallout 4) and my 1TB has all the rest.
 
Also go at least 16GB the prices are pretty decent right now. 8GB is starting to get dicey for some applications and 32GB is not necessary.
 
Hope that helps! Feel free to PM me if you wanna put a real parts list together.

The processor shouldn't matter if its between the two. Gaming performance will be similar but the 5820k has more PCI-E lanes and will allow you to run SLI at 16x-8x instead of 8x-8x with the 6700k. Also I believe the PCI-E 1x lanes are decoupled on the 6700k so they don't take away from your total lane count when using extra peripherals. 
 
You will really get similar performance from either processor though as running a card at 8x vs 16x on pci-e Gen3 is very minimal. You'll see like 1fps difference in your max FPS so its really preference. The x99 boards are still really expensive too so take that into consideration.
 
1440p: 980ti
1080p: 970
 
Power supply go for something 80Plus Gold at least. This will give you arond 90% efficiency and good clean power to your components. EVGA supernovas are really good. As are the Corsair RMI units. Something like the 750G2 or the RM750I would be good.
 
Cooling you can go for a Noctua NH-D14 if you wanna go air, trades blows with the H100i from corsair (dual 120mm AIO liquid cooler) the only thing is that you have to be careful when transporting as the noctua weighs about a KG.
 
As for case just make sure you get something with enough space and good airflow. Fractal Design Define R5 is a really solid case with enough room for whatever you need.
 
Oh and for storage you don't need anything super crazy unless you want moar epeen. Just get a good reliable SSD for boot OS (250GB is good size) and a decent size HDD for long term storage (2TB is typical these days) and if you really want you can get a really big SSD and throw a bunch of games on it as well. As it stands my 250gb has two or three large games on it that benefit from a faster drive (load times, Arkham Knight and Fallout 4) and my 1TB has all the rest.
 
Also go at least 16GB the prices are pretty decent right now. 8GB is starting to get dicey for some applications and 32GB is not necessary.
 
Hope that helps! Feel free to PM me if you wanna put a real parts list together.

Also, some of the asrock boards will let you overclock a 6700 via bclock, so watch out for those. The 6700 and 4690k OC'ed will get near the same framerate depending on how good your GPU is. 

Source: http://kotaku.com/real-life-hitman-controlled-by-remote-players-1763746682
Link to YouTube video: 
THIS IS SO FREAKIN COOL!!!
So Realm Pictures put together this real life Hitman game and it is freakin sweet!!
I think it would be so much fun to participate in this! They could make a metric ass-tonne of money if they opened this to the public. If they ever do, I would be willing to pay a lot of money to play!!

good lord...i think i gave myself a concussion from facepalming.

didnt you learn anything from linus? if stuff dont fit use zip ties for fuck sake. i mean who in their right mind thinks its a good idea to drill through a circuit board?

Awesome, thanks I didn't notice that was out. On it!
 
Also thanks for the welcome!

Make sure you're not using the highest texture setting. It requires more than 4GB of vram. Use the second highest instead.

SO what happens if you get one of these balloons in your eye and it pops? Do you get a core eye-7?

Soldering is a technique of taking molten metal alloys and putting them on two pieces of metal to join them together in an electrical connection - normally, solder has to be heated to a very high temperature in order to become molten. However, with this new technique, we might be able to throw that away. The main issue with current soldering is that you have the potential of burning components on the board, and even yourself with the temperature that soldering irons run at. Martin Thuo at the Iowa State University has developed a new way of soldering through an alloy that consists of bismuth, indium, and tin which is called "Field's Metal." This alloy melts at 62C - however, if the tiny droplets of this material(while molten) are placed inside protective shells, the material remains in a liquid form when the shell cools and solidifies.
 
The effect - which is known as undercooling or supercooling - occurs because the liquid metal is prevented from coming into contact with something that triggers any kind of solidification. While it was studied extensively, we couldn't make a stable undercooled metal material that was readily usable. When you crush the particles, liquid metal is released onto the surface, when then becomes a solid, conductive solder joint.
 
Thuo's team was able to put the special particles onto a thin film of gold, and then placed a gold wire on top. They put a glass rod onto it to squish the particles, and within seconds, the wire was firmly stuck to the film. Additionally, the particles could also repair a hole in a thin film of silver, and stick foils of gold and aluminum together. If precision is required while soldering, a scanning electron microscope can also be used to puncture the particles.
 
The team made these particles by taking some Field's Metal to some acetic acid using a solvent known as diethylene glycol, and then spinning it at 17,000 RPMs.
Quote taken directly from the source:
In accordance with Liu, he says that he thinks the manufacturing looks scalable. However, he also realizes the industry would like to know if the method can even be trusted in the first place as a replacement for our current technique. Thuo's team is currently testing other alloys which melt at a higher temperature than Field's Metal, and they've been successful. They've found that bismuth and tin mixed together can also be encapsulated inside the protective shell while remaining in a liquid form, bearing in mind that the melting temperature of this mixture is normally 139C.
 
Source: http://www.nature.com/news/liquid-metal-balloons-offer-room-temperature-soldering-1.19495

$394,328 1,677 backers pledged of $100,000 goal 57 days to go
Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/248983394/ossic-x-the-first-3d-audio-headphones-calibrated-t

Just watched the entire thing and while they didn't say TOO too much about the inherent technology of calibration, their claims are fantastic and their experience and passion should be a good sign that this will be a different experience. Anyone who is calling instant BS on this should watch the podcast!

No.
But an even newer driver Crimson 16.2.1 is already out. You should switch.
 
And welcome to the forum.