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@Sauron oh right, totally forgot about the nvidia driver issue ... then itll be my linux card, will deal with those issues later. gaming and rendering the same time is pretty much the purpose. X299 was not even close to my consideration for that reason @IPickle the open source one on linux, if I recall correctly its kvm

Long story short: I want to move away from Windows Long story: I dont want to totally abandon it just yet and have it running in a virtual machine with gpu passthrough (all the good qemu, kvm stuff). Im planning on letting a nvidia gpu handle some blender. Down the road there will be one 4k monitor for desktop stuff, and two 1080p for gaming and 2nd os. My gaming workload is lightweight enough for my current hd7850 to handle and will be taken as second gpu. Obviously there have to be enough cores on either os, although Linux is not that demanding, so that there are at least 8 physical in total. Now its just about the best price to performance and sure you can get the e5-2670 used for next to nothing, but I dont want to spend any money on a CPU that is a generation older than my ivy bridge i3 neither an outdated x79 mobo. I configured myself the parts I need at ~1000€(Germany) r7-1700 x370 mobo 32gb memory 2xTB WD Blue gtx1060 6gb Now the question is, if itd make sense to buy into the 2011-3 platform instead, maybe even get a 5820k, because of better cpu performance distribution or single thread performance?(I have no idea) Id not hesitate to get a used cpu as long as its not a ES and willing to possibly tinker w/ a server mobo if it has at least 2 pcie x16 slots. Thanks in advance, like to hear your arguments.

Hey please direct me to the right topic if Im wrong here.. So heres my issue: While opening a new i5-6600 I found out, that there is no protective plastic cover for the thermal paste, like I am used to, on those CPUs. Thus the paste looks pretty dirty to me. Although it looks like a new environmental-friendly way of packaging, Id just like to have some confirmation on that. This shoud not turn into a discussion about how you shouldnt use stock heatsinks and I am well aware of some downsights this might have.

OMG, just think about it. If you get 4 of those, align them perfectly and split a 4k HDMI signal, BOOM, giant 4k Picture. Or get 2, again align them, get some filters and make yourself a cinema like 3d experience. Obviously I dont have the money for neither of those things + apply to any 1080p beamer, so ... yeah The short distance is what makes this super awesome and there are not that many non office short throw one. If you give that beamer to me, Im gonna make it throw up! lmao get it? hah