skeeder

Right now: (trying to work through this...used a cheap dell keyboard last night...did not feel good) STRAFE MX brown (RED LED), $79.99 G610 MX Brown (White LED) $88.99

I kinda hate the look of it. The G610 looks more 'my style'.

the STRAFE I heard is not well made. Plastic with no metal backplate. I haven't used it. Is that true?

Howdy folks! I spilled my beer in my Microsoft Ergo 4000. I've been using that board (now my forth) since early highschool. I recently replaced the ergo at work with a CM Storm MX-Brown keyboard and I love it. I'm on a budget looking to be near $80-90 on my next MX-Brown board. I do not want macro buttons or anything like that, more simple the better. I'd like a backlight but it isn't necessary. I do need my tenkey. I do play alot of games at night so O-rings would be nice, if not I'll probably have to spend a bit more to get them later. I've put the Corsair K70 and Logitech G610 in my cart...anything else I should consider? Anyone have good luck with refurbished Corsair mechanicals keyboards?

I still by Audio CD's, but not game CD's. They are out of date (patches) any way. I only have a few CD's for games I love and won't toss (Freespace 1 and 2 for example). But they are also ISO's on my desktop drive so I don't even get them out. Games are at the point today where, you actually end up downloading a portion of the game anyway. I've yet to see games on Bluray's being sold as normal. Doom is a great example, while the disc contains the game, it does not contain all of it. You have to activate it on steam in order to play-where it will download the remaining portion of the game.

He's right, I prefer Corsair since I've done all my builds with them (since 2003) here is the DDR4 3000 LP Corsair Dominator RAM...$80. http://pcpartpicker.com/product/MYH48d/corsair-memory-cmk16gx4m2b3000c15 I don't see any LED's on your other ones...I'd forgo fancy aluminum looking RAM for $30.

Jay just posted this...the man does good work. Gigabyte's G1 Gaming hits 80C and with the default fan curve. Jay wasn't happy with that and took the card and put new thermal paste on it to see if temps improved at all. SPOILER, it didn't. He has other charts that show the 480, 1060 and 480 with an OC trading blows. Also, the eVGA card he used is the single fan mini size, reference PCB, so no huge cooling was strapped on. For clarification--I wanted ATI to win this round, but unfortunately, the 480 just gets too hot.

MX200 is my vote, the M.2 version uses MLC too. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148955 500GB for $239. The Samsung 950pro is well regarded, but its almost $80 more for the same amount of storage.

I had this happen when dust got in the PCI-E slot. The card was properly mounted, it just wasn't identifying it correctly. Took it out, did the old NES blow, and it worked. Depending on your rig, that maybe the case.

I recommend the following brands: eVGA, Asus, and MSI. I've had good luck with their products.

@Killtowin09 I like your build you picked out. It appears you want to overclock your CPU. If so, I recommend faster ram if you can afford it. With a 1070 in there you should ahve about 300 to 700 for a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I highly recommend you pick these three things out first. A super awesome rig needs a good monitor and inputs so you can enjoy it. We can cut somethings down if needed.

I checked out your rig. Looks sweet, and very quiet. Personally, with the amount of heat the RX480 and 470 let off, I would sell it. That is my opinion, I don't find that type of heat in a case like yours to be sustainable long term. I would pick up the 1060 6GB. If you have the stock cooler still, you might be able to sell the whole package for a little bit more considering it is a good GPU cooler that normally costs a bit. Can't vouch for freesync...my monitor is ancient.

The Gigabytes are custom AIB's, note the location of the HDMI not being in the middle. My opinion is not to spend the extra cash, unless you really want another fan, I don't think you'll get your money's worth, these 10 series are boosting automatically without software involved, they can boost a little further with some software, but either model I don't think the 'factory overclock' for this generation is as important as it was before. Here is an example, my 1060 came with a "Boost Overclock" to 1830mhz (from the 1500ish NVIDIA), it is currently boosting to 2000mhz. Well past the "STRIX" model (mines a Dual Model), I saved about $80 thanks to price gauging and being "okay" with the less fancy GPU. Money I put into an SSD. So, save your cash and get the lower priced one assuming it has the features you want that aren't overclock related.

Many games do have support, older games (Assassins Creed, Mass Effect, etc.) will not have that kind of support. Depending on the engine will depend on if it will work, work with proper FOV, or just give you black bars. Surprisingly Quake III can be edited to support ultrawide...that game is what, 15 years old now?

the RX480 is more future proof with better DX12 and Vulkan implementation. NVIDIA will probably keep tweeking the 10 series drivers to get some more performance. The RX480 doesn't overclock well and runs around 80C even with AIB. My 1060 has yet to go over 61C after hours of gaming. My vote is for the 1060 6GB.