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1- The nitro cards boost clock is just a tad bit higher (40-50MHz) 2- The fan not spinning till it reaches 40c is to make it less noise when it's not necessary, I would just leave the fan speed on auto. 3- 77c is perfectly fine in Heaven, my 1080ti reaches 84. Till 95 degrees there's nothing to worry about. (even though I'm not comfortable with temps higher than 90).

I think there is one downside more to the A400 Raid solution... As far as I know you can't TRIM a SSD raid array (right?). So your SSD's will lose their lifespan faster than just 1 drive.

When I look at the specs from both of these cards, the Sapphire should outperform, why? -The boost clock of the Sapphire card is 1.37GHz (MSI = 1.34GHz) - Sapphire got better cooling solution (that's why the TDP of the Sapphire card is 40W higher)

I think this build is really nice, but I'm pretty sure you forgot 1 thing. When you're building with those kind of budgets, please get yourself a SSD as a boot drive. Besides of that, the build looks fine to me

Off topic: Thats 2133MHz. DDR = Double Data Rate. Some programs show it as DDR4 2133MHz, some will show it as 1064MHz. Most people and stores call it 2133MHz memory. Just so you know <3 On topic: Any overclocks running? Especially on the GPU? Unstable GPU overclocks can give those kind of symptoms.

I've build like 15 pc's last 2 years and I never seen any motherboard recommend to use slot 1 and 3 (in your case the Black DIMMS). It's always slot 2 and 4. In general it's the way @seoz said in the earlier post.

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You just need the latest bios from the Asus website, flash it onto the motherboard with EZ Flash (in the BIOS), and you are good to go. If you already have the latest BIOS version from the ASUS site. Congratz! Your cpu should work immediately

Yes it will work, but remember: You must update the bios before the 7700k will work on a Z170 motherboard!

That's what I was trying to say the entire time But didn't knew how much the BCLK goes up when pressing + once.

You need the setting you see in the first picture, not the setting in the second one. This is NOT the setting you use for that

Then you are using the wrong setting, normally you get that 100:100 setting when you look at the "BCLK Frequency : DRAM Frequentie ratio". Thats the wrong setting. In an asus bios, it's one of the settings you see the first in the Overclock menu

See picture

Set multiplier to 50, tick the BCLK a bit up in your bios

Why do you use Throttlestop 850 if you can just set your CPU manually to 3.8GHz in your bios? You can also disable turbo in the bios.

I would definitely take the Ryzen 2 2200G from those two picks!

My current specs: i7-4770k running stock 3.5Ghz but turbo boost up to 3.9Ghz Asus Z-87 Pro mobo 16GB (2x8GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport - 1333Mhz EVGA GTX 1080 8GB SC2 w/ iCX on 399.24 drivers Samsung 840 Pro - 128GB (OS drive) Samsung 850 Evo - 500GB (Game installed on here) I've tried OC'ing my 4770k to >4.0Ghz, but it's unstable even at 4.0Ghz with voltage at 1.2 - got a bad one I guess, so running on stock for now. Running BF1 on Ultra preset, 1080p, no super-sampling, etc. and getting 70-80fps on average in multiplayer. That doesn't seem right to me. In campaign, I'm getting about the same, with occasional moments of 100+fps. Here's a recording of the beginning of "Fall From Grace" mission: https://youtu.be/OaQeYTOmtxY My thoughts so far: 1) Card was installed with new drivers straight from Nvidia following DDU installation of drivers for my old card. So I don't think it's a driver issue. 2) Thermal readout on CPU and GPU both seem fine, so don't think any throttling is going on. 3) Processor power management through Windows 10 set for maximum performance, min and max processor state is 100%. 4) Thought maybe it was the old cores getting unparked issue, but all cores are running fine. 5) Don't think it's CPU bottleneck as GPU stays at 99-100% and all cores aren't getting close to full utilization. 6) Origin In-Game Overlay disabled. 7) Nvidia Control Panel set to "Let 3D application decide". Any ideas on what's going on? Or is this performance expected for my setup?

Have you tried clearing cache? Reinstalling browser? Run some random cleanup utility once to see if you collected a crap load of junk and that might be the problem? (even though im far from a cleanup utility fan).

At that resolution a 7600k won't bottleneck a 1080 ti. The lower the resolution the higher the change to be bottlenecked by your cpu.

2133Mhz you mean? Have you checked thermals?

After seeing many videos they perform pretty much similar. I would pick one depending on price.

Audioengine D1 is also a very good USB dac

I think you could, but try to make sure that you use 2 identical ram sticks Mixing different types of ram can result in instability and weird crashes. But as far as I know the XPS 12 has 2 SODIMM slots. So you could add 1 stick (if it's 1x4gb and not 2x2gb)

At the end you say you've put in those settings in the launch options... "-freq 144". Doesn't that limit your frames to 144? I might be wrong, never played CS:GO. There is 1 thing strange in that code too. "-threads 12". Your cpu only has 6.

V-sync enabled?