Flinty

I've never had good luck with hard mouse pads. They always seem to wear out. So I've switch to cloth. I used one of these. 

Back at it with my moody screenshots...
 

 

 

 

Back at it with my moody screenshots...
 

 

 

 

The 570x is a case you really have to see in person, in photographs it's simply not done justice.
My roommate has one. One of the nicest cases I've ever seen. It also somehow manages to keep dust out better than any other case I've seen.

I'm a fan of my 460x. Don't have to worry about people seeing my "great" wire management job lol.

I have had a 570x since they released, it's the only case I've kept for a new build.
 

So a couple of months ago, I treated myself to a rig upgrade. New PSU, water cooling, NVME etc etc. Among that, I decided to scale down to a 570X from my 750D and I wanted to share my thoughts for anyone considering it. 
 
The first thing I have to say is manage your expectations. If you go to youtube, you're going to see high quality glam footage of it, and admittedly it looks STUNNING when you put some love into it (and the post editing). For the average joe, building a PC in this thing could be "challenging." I spent too much time cursing at cable management and dirty glass, so keep those in mind. Without further hesitation, I'm going to cover some critical points. 
 
The cable management cover... Well, to say I have a love hate relationship with it is an understatement. Like a good friend, it shields you from the horrific part of your PC... The cables... But my good god is it difficult to work with... In my build, I'm running 2x 6 pin PSU cables, 1x 24 Pin, 2x Sata power, 2x Sata data, USB 3, HD Audio, Top Panel buttons and 11 cooling orientated cables (6 fan headers, 5 corsair RGB headers). So to say it's a tight squeeze in there is a huge understatement. For your first time working with this case, you'll possibly struggle like I did. 
 
The Hard Drive mounting brackets are cool, I like them a bunch actually. They're in a convenient location, they are easy to reach. HOWEVER, I don't know what psychopath at Corsair decided that the green PCB should be on display.. It is the biggest eyesore of this case... I fiddled around, trying to fit the drives in the other way round, but it's not happening sadly. If you're using Sata SSDs though, you'll be fine!
 
For my build I decided to water cool for the first time and like a lot of people, I gravitated towards the EK Fluid Gaming A360G all in one kit. As a result of the compactness of the case, you're gonna have to improve with the mounting holes at the bottom of the case for your res/pump. I ended up using an assortment of screws and such to try and get it sitting without causing noise. But it can be done. 
 
There's not much else to say about this case, it is beautiful like you see in the youtube videos, but a tip for anyone building in this for the first time... Come equipped with lots of patience... 
 
Stick with it... The end result can be beautiful!

 

 

 
 

So a couple of months ago, I treated myself to a rig upgrade. New PSU, water cooling, NVME etc etc. Among that, I decided to scale down to a 570X from my 750D and I wanted to share my thoughts for anyone considering it. 
 
The first thing I have to say is manage your expectations. If you go to youtube, you're going to see high quality glam footage of it, and admittedly it looks STUNNING when you put some love into it (and the post editing). For the average joe, building a PC in this thing could be "challenging." I spent too much time cursing at cable management and dirty glass, so keep those in mind. Without further hesitation, I'm going to cover some critical points. 
 
The cable management cover... Well, to say I have a love hate relationship with it is an understatement. Like a good friend, it shields you from the horrific part of your PC... The cables... But my good god is it difficult to work with... In my build, I'm running 2x 6 pin PSU cables, 1x 24 Pin, 2x Sata power, 2x Sata data, USB 3, HD Audio, Top Panel buttons and 11 cooling orientated cables (6 fan headers, 5 corsair RGB headers). So to say it's a tight squeeze in there is a huge understatement. For your first time working with this case, you'll possibly struggle like I did. 
 
The Hard Drive mounting brackets are cool, I like them a bunch actually. They're in a convenient location, they are easy to reach. HOWEVER, I don't know what psychopath at Corsair decided that the green PCB should be on display.. It is the biggest eyesore of this case... I fiddled around, trying to fit the drives in the other way round, but it's not happening sadly. If you're using Sata SSDs though, you'll be fine!
 
For my build I decided to water cool for the first time and like a lot of people, I gravitated towards the EK Fluid Gaming A360G all in one kit. As a result of the compactness of the case, you're gonna have to improve with the mounting holes at the bottom of the case for your res/pump. I ended up using an assortment of screws and such to try and get it sitting without causing noise. But it can be done. 
 
There's not much else to say about this case, it is beautiful like you see in the youtube videos, but a tip for anyone building in this for the first time... Come equipped with lots of patience... 
 
Stick with it... The end result can be beautiful!

 

 

 
 

Yes it will not be touched. If you do have any other drives then I would disconnected them before doing the cloning. Just to be super sure that the wrong one can't be cloned. But there is not need to do that. I just to do it to make it easier to know which drive is what. It can sometimes be confusing if you have multiple drives which are the same size.

I figured I might as well bump in here with some of some of my works. Semi-Professional game capture artist
 

 

 

 

 
Games: Arma 3, Hitman 2
 
 

I figured I might as well bump in here with some of some of my works. Semi-Professional game capture artist
 

 

 

 

 
Games: Arma 3, Hitman 2
 
 

I figured I might as well bump in here with some of some of my works. Semi-Professional game capture artist
 

 

 

 

 
Games: Arma 3, Hitman 2
 
 

I'm still debating which system to use for capture, and I'm leaning towards the system I also use for video editing:
i7-7800X, 16GB ram, GPU TBD (should move the 2070 into it, otherwise it'll be old 980ti which might struggle)
 
I didn't say it, but yes, I would be aiming for max settings at whatever resolution I run at. Then it becomes a matter of adequate fps. Ensuring 60fps at 4k is still challenging, but 30fps is easy. I'd run fixed 30fps if I were to do that. Basically my realistic choices are recording at 4k30fps, or 1440p30/60fps.
 
My thinking is, I'm not going for high action. Regular TV and film content is ok at lower rates, and I think I would be too. I love the phrase "terrain appreciation". It isn't what I'm doing, but in a way not that far off  
 
This is what I'm planning on using. I could add, I've used it already and I'm ok with the output. Up to now, I've ran at unlimited fps and set capture to 30fps, and it seems ok to me. But in case it helps for more serious stuff, I was planning on fixing at 30/60fps so there is less likely to be temporal variation in frame spacing.

I've done a bit of filming and game capturing in games and I've kinda mastered the best settings. 
 
My Rig: Core i7 8700K, 16Gb DDR4 RAM, Gtx 1080ti 
 
I've found that running at 1080p is the best choice for native res, but I recommend bumping up sampling as high as possible. Anti Aliasing should be set as high as your system can handle. The same goes for texture settings, shadows etc, put them all as high as you possibly can. 
 
In terms of your FPS, you need to be hitting at the least, 60fps otherwise the video will look laggy on the vast majority of monitors. Now it entirely depends what kind of filming you're going to be doing in game, if you're sticking to a "terrain appreciation" kind of video, you can perhaps get away with 30-45fps, but if you're including lots of moving parts you need to be going higher.
 
In terms of what you use for filming, I recommend two ways of doing this. Firstly, an external capture card, this will help limit any performance degradation you may run into when filming, which is a pretty common occurrence when filming a game (lag spikes etc). The cheaper option of this, which I personally use is Nvidia GeForce experience, there's no noticeable performance drop which is extremely ideal. 
 
Any questions, hmu!
 
-Flinty  

I figured I might as well bump in here with some of some of my works. Semi-Professional game capture artist
 

 

 

 

 
Games: Arma 3, Hitman 2
 
 

Cheers Jay, I’ve ended up going with the 360G, seems to be the better choice in this situation. 

lol, guess that depends on the temps you want. 

Nickel and aluminium should be fine

wouldnt do that myself. Also are you playing to run the cpu block and cool both components with that rad?