SimpleQuantumComputer

Hate is welcome. I don't know, it just looks so... Fat? Bulbous?

Corsair 550D? In my opinion it's a little better looking than the R4. I love both cases though.

Although I'm more of a Megadeth guy I must say, this is outright awesome!

I've had bad experiences with Razer products but I liked the feel of their BW MX Blues. Though at shop two arrow keys got stuck :/ . Bought a SteelSeries 6Gv2. Love it. It's amazing, I love the linear feel of blacks over the tactile blues (BW Ultimate) and browns (Logitech G710+). Can't wait to try out reds. If I'm gonna have a next keyboard (6Gv2 can't break), I'm gonna get a Quickfire TK (Maybe pro if I want the numpad).

Although I got it for comfort, at first the wpm decreased by like 20 (from 80 to 60). The switch was from a Logitech K200 to a SteelSeries 6Gv2. I'm still not used to it at all, but so far I've been loving it. However, I'm sure that when I get used to it, my wpm will increase. It's the big buttons, you know :D

It doesn't matter. The 7870 maintains a solid 95-99% usage even on pcie 1.0 (I have an old mobo and it runs well).

Yeah just get a 7870. I've a Sapphire 7870 GHz edition OC- I got it for $50 cheaper brand new - Call it immense luck. It handles everything very well, but at 5760x1080 Don't expect to run everything maxed. A single 7870 will run all games fine on medium-high at very playable FPS.

I'm very young :D 6600 8400GS 8800GS 8800GTS 640MB GTX 550 Ti Integrated 7025 HD 7870

Why not just get a single 7870? It alone is about twice the performance. Eventually you could get 2 7870's. I mean 2 7770's would be somewhere between a 7850 and a 7870 when you take scaling into account. In some games 2 7770s outperform the 7870 by 1-3 FPS. It also matters very much on the resolution, and what games you'll be playing.

Hey guys thank you all for the suggestions, I OC'd my 960T to 3.8GHz stable (couldn't unlock it though :( ) and bought a brand new Sapphire 7870 (GHz edition factory OC). Works like a charm even at a resolution as low as 1280x1024 (gonna buy a 1080p monitor after summer).

Honestly I don't think an audiophile would even consider a sound card. More like an external DAC and headphone amp. But he's on a budget, so just get whatever Asus Xonar you can for that price.

If you told us your budget and where you're buying from it would definitely help. I've got a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo a few days ago and can say it's an excellent value cooler. Should allow you to overclock for a bit. I think an nvidia gpu is a great choice if you're going to be gaming and doing 3d modelling since it does CUDA (If i'm not mistaken, there are a few renderers that support CUDA). Why and EVGA card though? Why not MSI/Giga Byte or Asus? For ram go either Kingston or Corsair (Both excellent brands). For the PSU I'd recommend either a Corsair or Seasonic, in the 500-600w range if you're not planning to add another 660 in the future, then you might have to go up to750w. But honestly even a system with a 3970X and 2 670's won't use 750W peak, so don't worry about wattage, worry about what brand you get :). As for the case, I'd recommend either Fractal Design or a Corsair 550D (Silence ;) ). Storage: Just get a Samsung 840 120GB SSD for booting (They're just about perfect for the price) and a Seagate Barracuda 3TB for mass storage.

Well that was quick o.O Thank you very much ^^

Hello, everyone! This is my first thread in this forum and I require assistance on choice of a graphics card. So right now I'm "rocking" an Athlon II X2 250 OC'd at 3.45 GHz, cooled by a 212 Evo. I have a chance to buy a used 960T and unlock+OC it (Probably will buy it, as I recall that CPU is quite a rarity, but be free to correct me on that). At the same time I want to buy a new graphics card - I sold my GTX 550 Ti and have a choice to either buy a 560 Ti or an HD6870. What I'm worried about is if the 560 Ti will still be better (Price difference is minimal) on the resolution of my monitor - 1280x1024. Will the 960T bottleneck the 560 Ti on that resolution. My friend with an OC'd e8400 is running a 560 Ti without any problems but it's at 1920x1200. Thank you very much in advance :)