StealthArsenal

Agree 100% with @driftz240.  I have not heard or seen a driver issue that is intermittent like that.  Definitely sounds like a card issue.  I would DDU the driver, pull the card and reseat it, or put it into another PCIe slot and see if the issue persists. 

I'm sure it will come in time.  I'll be switching back to AMD on July 7th.  I've had enough of Intel.

I'm sure it will come in time.  I'll be switching back to AMD on July 7th.  I've had enough of Intel.

I'm sure it will come in time.  I'll be switching back to AMD on July 7th.  I've had enough of Intel.

I can't exactly answer your question as I do not have a GT Omega, but during my research, I read some horror stories with GT Omega with warranty and support.  I ended up with a Vertagear SL 4000 and absolutely love it.  It was between that an the Naxnomic Dominator from Need for Seat.  Just like anything, a seat is personal preference and is very subjective.  Everyone will say get the Herman Miller Aeron or Steelcase Leap.  For me both of those professional office chairs are extremely uncomfortable and I use an Aeron daily at work and hate it.  With that, I thought the AkRacing and GT Omega racing chairs were uncomfortable compared to the two racing series I mentioned above.  Both the AK and GT didn't provide any sort of back support in my humble opinion and felt like you didn't fit into the chairs properly.  Either too big or way too small.  It should be noted that I didn't own an AK or GT, but have done my homework with sitting in a few different models and was able to make an informed decision.
 
I understand if this doesn't help, but trying to give you some insight.

Depends if your current card cannot do what you want.  In other words push your resolution and graphics settings at an acceptable level.  The 1080 would certainly be faster, push 1440P without issue and allow you ultra gameplay.  With that said, not sure if you should wait if you have the money to purchase.  I for one don't see Nvidia releasing Volta anytime soon since Vega doesn't out perform the Pascal cards as originally expected.  With the 1070TI effectively a 1080, I'm not thinking there will be much change in pricing for any of those cards. 

I just feel like with Razer we're paying for the market name, the hardware is secondary..

Too bad with your predator.  I just suffered the second pump failure on mine and just sent the entire unit back for a refund.  It certainly a great cooler.  Great looking build.

In that case I'd actually put it in push/pull as the fractal fans are super quiet and push pull is wonderful.
 
Second thing, the difference between the celcius and the EVGA CLC is really minot in terms of temps, seeing as you already have some 120mm fans and value silence I'd go with the S36

Well I have a 850 Pro M.2 with "NVME" read/write performance.  Forgive my misrepresentation of what I was referring to. 
 
This guy to be exact - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAADF5NT5505&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-Solid+State+Disk-_-9SIAADF5NT5505&gclid=CID6hOigy9QCFQlWDQod9k0IxA&gclsrc=aw.ds

Intel was 100-percent caught off guard by threadripper.  The shear fact that the 7960X probably won't come out until next year and the 14/16 core cpus might also be delayed screams they just announced something to one up AMD.  There is also the noise of a 2066-v3 socket just for the TDP that those cpus are going to require.  It's a botched release anyway you look at it.  I am an Intel fan, but I have to hand it to AMD, they are doing good thus far. 

Intel was 100-percent caught off guard by threadripper.  The shear fact that the 7960X probably won't come out until next year and the 14/16 core cpus might also be delayed screams they just announced something to one up AMD.  There is also the noise of a 2066-v3 socket just for the TDP that those cpus are going to require.  It's a botched release anyway you look at it.  I am an Intel fan, but I have to hand it to AMD, they are doing good thus far. 

Intel was 100-percent caught off guard by threadripper.  The shear fact that the 7960X probably won't come out until next year and the 14/16 core cpus might also be delayed screams they just announced something to one up AMD.  There is also the noise of a 2066-v3 socket just for the TDP that those cpus are going to require.  It's a botched release anyway you look at it.  I am an Intel fan, but I have to hand it to AMD, they are doing good thus far. 

I picked up the Gigabyte Aorous Gaming 5.  So far its rock solid and the bios is stable.  The crosshair is having all kinds of bios issues.

I went ahead and tested the 5820k on fresh install and the results were virtually identical to my year old installation.  Very interesting.  I also put together my 7700k system to test and saw the single core and gaming improvements, but it still seemed that the 1800x overclocked hung in there fairly well at 3.9 ghz.  The 7700 was clocked at 4.7 as I couldn't get it stable beyond that due to heat.  Not under water right now.

For argument sakes, my 5820k at its max scored 1260 (fresh install) multi and 172cb single.  The 7700k max scored a 1024cb multi and a 204cb single.  The 1800x max scored 1623cb multi and a 158 single.  
 
One other benchmark of interest was CPU-Z.  
- 5820k - 2002 single/13118 multi
- 7700k - 2345 single/10393 multi
- 1800x - 2277 single/19954 multi
 
When it came to the games (Tomb Raider, Dirt, Shadow or Mordor, BF1 and Metro), all the numbers favored the 7700k and the 1800x and 5820k more or less traded blows.  We are talking the order of 2-5 fps between min/max/average.  
 
I can't say I was expecting to see this after most of the reviews.  I am running the Aorous Gaming 5 board which seems to be the most stable.  I also don't know how other games will play, I just don't have the time to test everything.  Need to make a decision and return one of these builds.  I am kind of thinking of hanging onto the 5820k machine and keeping it as my daily driver as it is now, and using the 7700k for my projector gaming setup at 1080p.  Saves me $200ish and I can always watch and see how Ryzen matures and/or skylake/kaby lake -x launch. 

Hello Everyone,
 
Hope this is in the right place.
 
I was curious as to how many of you who purchased Ryzen chips, particularly the 1800x and benchmarked it against their current rig.  I have spent sometime today benching my 1800x (at 3.9 ghz on air), 16gb Crucial Elite 2667, GTX1080 Classified and Aorous Gaming 5 motherboard against my X99 system in my signature. 
 
Just for some quick numbers: at 1080p testing on Acer Predator XB271HU monitors
1800x @ 3.9  on air                                                        
Cpuz: Single Core: 2277, Multi Core: 19954
Cinebench: CPU: 1623CB, Single: 158, MP Ratio 10.28x
Heaven: AVG: 145.5 FPS, Score 3665
Timespy: Graphics = 7677, CPU Score: 8373
Firestrike: Graphics: 22,826, Physics: 19,536,Combined: 5209
Tomb Raider: Min FPS: 140, Max FPS: 244, Avg FPS: 185.6
Metro Last Light: Average: 142 FPS, Max: 252.78 FPS, Min: 28.20 FPS
Battlefield 1 Campaign: (1080P-Ultra Settings) Min: 98 FPS, Max: 132
 
5820k @ 4.4 on water
Cpuz: Single Core: 2002, Multi Core: 13118
Cinebench: CPU: 1248CB, Single: 172, MP Ratio 7.26x
Heaven: AVG: 116 FPS, Score 2929
Timespy: Graphics = 11958, CPU Score: 6724
Firestrike: Graphics: 20,854 , Physics: 17,022 ,Combined: 8707
Tomb Raider: Min FPS: 142, Max FPS: 224, Avg FPS: 189.5
Metro Last Light: Average: 135 FPS, Max: 255.17 FPS, Min: 24.99 FPS
 
I am going to do some more real world gaming with the 1800x such as BF1 for example.  But what I am seeing in my testing is that the Ryzen is keeping up and surpassing my 5820k in some of the canned benchmarks.  The only thing that comes to mind if this is somehow false is that Ryzen is on a fresh Win 10 install whereas my X99 system has an install that well over a year old.  I can update some games tomorrow when I get them all installed.  I wasn't sure how the Ryzen was going to work out after seeing all the reviews so I do have a Kaby Lake 7700k sitting sealed in its box right now.  I was anticipating I would be certainly building that as my second system for another area of my home.  I am a bit perplexed with what I am seeing so far.  
 
Just wanted to throw this out there and see what everyone thought. 
 
Thanks

Hello Everyone,
 
Hope this is in the right place.
 
I was curious as to how many of you who purchased Ryzen chips, particularly the 1800x and benchmarked it against their current rig.  I have spent sometime today benching my 1800x (at 3.9 ghz on air), 16gb Crucial Elite 2667, GTX1080 Classified and Aorous Gaming 5 motherboard against my X99 system in my signature. 
 
Just for some quick numbers: at 1080p testing on Acer Predator XB271HU monitors
1800x @ 3.9  on air                                                        
Cpuz: Single Core: 2277, Multi Core: 19954
Cinebench: CPU: 1623CB, Single: 158, MP Ratio 10.28x
Heaven: AVG: 145.5 FPS, Score 3665
Timespy: Graphics = 7677, CPU Score: 8373
Firestrike: Graphics: 22,826, Physics: 19,536,Combined: 5209
Tomb Raider: Min FPS: 140, Max FPS: 244, Avg FPS: 185.6
Metro Last Light: Average: 142 FPS, Max: 252.78 FPS, Min: 28.20 FPS
Battlefield 1 Campaign: (1080P-Ultra Settings) Min: 98 FPS, Max: 132
 
5820k @ 4.4 on water
Cpuz: Single Core: 2002, Multi Core: 13118
Cinebench: CPU: 1248CB, Single: 172, MP Ratio 7.26x
Heaven: AVG: 116 FPS, Score 2929
Timespy: Graphics = 11958, CPU Score: 6724
Firestrike: Graphics: 20,854 , Physics: 17,022 ,Combined: 8707
Tomb Raider: Min FPS: 142, Max FPS: 224, Avg FPS: 189.5
Metro Last Light: Average: 135 FPS, Max: 255.17 FPS, Min: 24.99 FPS
 
I am going to do some more real world gaming with the 1800x such as BF1 for example.  But what I am seeing in my testing is that the Ryzen is keeping up and surpassing my 5820k in some of the canned benchmarks.  The only thing that comes to mind if this is somehow false is that Ryzen is on a fresh Win 10 install whereas my X99 system has an install that well over a year old.  I can update some games tomorrow when I get them all installed.  I wasn't sure how the Ryzen was going to work out after seeing all the reviews so I do have a Kaby Lake 7700k sitting sealed in its box right now.  I was anticipating I would be certainly building that as my second system for another area of my home.  I am a bit perplexed with what I am seeing so far.  
 
Just wanted to throw this out there and see what everyone thought. 
 
Thanks

I'm confused with a quad core being on the X299 platform.  Is this just to drive a more competitive price point with the consumer on the enthusiast platform?  Also, why is there an i5 on X299? 

My local microcenter was selling the classy for $699 and the FTW for $699 so I just grabbed the Classy.  I ditched dual gpu this time around, so I figured why not for no price differential.

I have a 1080 classy and honestly, on air, it doesnt clock any differently than the FTW.  I am waiting for ek to release the classy waterblock to see how far it can go.  Mine will hit 2100 mhz at +50 to gpu core and +550 to memory in precision.  It throttles back to 2088 at 70% fan speed.  The one nice thing is that the card is quite quiet at that fan speed unlike the acx 2.0.  

Also depends where you are in the US and which retailer you buy from.  Tax may not even be an issue.  Case in point, I order all my cards from EVGA.  I pay their $7 dollar shipping and that's it.

I own/owned the PG279Q and while it was an excellent monitor when it comes to build quality and such, the panel was less to be desired.  The QC on the monitor in terms of blb or IPS glow was horrendous.  I ended up returning the monitor and picking up two Acer XB1 monitors.  Neither have any kind of significant blb or ips glow.  It was definitely painful for me to return the Asus as my PG278Q was a great monitor and I am a big Asus fan.

I think the aftermarket coolers and launch will be based on which board partners are ready to go.  I know I bought my 980TI's on launch with the ACX 2.0 from EVGA.

I own/owned the PG279Q and while it was an excellent monitor when it comes to build quality and such, the panel was less to be desired.  The QC on the monitor in terms of blb or IPS glow was horrendous.  I ended up returning the monitor and picking up two Acer XB1 monitors.  Neither have any kind of significant blb or ips glow.  It was definitely painful for me to return the Asus as my PG278Q was a great monitor and I am a big Asus fan.