Dennis1562

Yep, I was ok with the price and just put in the order, I got it for $40 off I can't wait till it comes in. I thank you again for your help and will mark this as resolved.

Excellent, thank you so much for the recommendations I looked at both offerings from Corsair before I put in my order I figured I would ask one last question. I saw that they had the K95 RGB Platinum is an option as well and wanted your thoughts. Like I said price point is no matter in this regard and if this is basically an upgraded K70 then I am fine with going with it. Let me know your thoughts. https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Gaming-Keyboards/RGB-Mechanical-Gaming-Keyboards/k95-rgb-platinum-config-na/p/CH-9127012-NA Sincerely, Dennis

Yes, it is unfortunate although I have seen some third-party sellers that still have inventory. I appreciate the information about the Cherry MX Brown switches, this will help me find something similar if you have any specific suggestions I would appreciate it. There are so many choices nowadays that it is hard to figure out what is best. Price point really doesn't matter by the way as long as it has all the same features or more as the G710+. I thank you for the info that you have provided so far and will use it to start searching further, thank you for your time. Sincerely, Dennis

Hello everyone, I am browsing around for a new keyboard, I really have enjoyed my G710+ to the point where I might just buy another one but wanted to see if there were any better options for the money that would be spent. I mainly game on my machine but like that tactile feel of the keyboard because it made it nice for typing as well. If anyone knows of any good keyboards that I should look into that are similar and have decent updated software, I would appreciate it. I thank you in advance for taking the time to look at this post and all suggestions/feedback. Sincerely, Dennis

Hmm ok, I guess I will just wait then. That gives me even more time to save money. Do you think it would be worthwhile to look at the thread ripper platform at all? Specifically to have access to extra PCIe lanes and quad channel memory. I wasn't planning on it because I doubt I would gain any real benefits from something like that but I figure I will ask. Again when it comes to my PC price isn't necessarily an issue. I want the best performance I can get for the money and 2k is the ballpark number I had for the budget.

I game at 1080p on a 144hz monitor although at some point I will make the jump in resolution. I tried using Nvidas shadow play in the past but I saw a loss of about 30-45fps in games. Still reasonable as I was able to achieve 144+fps but also not stellar. Especially in games like PUBG where my machine really chugs for some reason despite me lowering a ton of settings. Yea upgrading storage isn't an issue I just need a fast NVME drive for the OS and so that when I am bringing over say a 4K video over to edit down for a project it doesn't take so long just to do things on the timeline. Also thank you both for replying I appreciate your guys time.

When will Zen 2 be revealed? I have no problems waiting a bit longer if it is worth it. I am the type of guy if you can't tell that dreads replacing my CPU since it usually means changing out the motherboard, ram, and cooler. I would say the longest I would be able to wait is till about July. The reason being is because the person that helped me build my machine will be moving so I wouldn't feel the best about trying to reinstall everything without him there even though I do my own maintenance all the time. It just feels different doing it from scratch especially if I went with AMD since I never really put a CPU in place before because I was scared to misalign the pins or something dumb.

Current hardware is ok I guess its not really preventing me per say from doing the school projects but I feel like I am reaching the limits on what I can do with the machine. As an example, I would love to add more storage and have a board that can support NVMe drives that would be a huge help alone in speeding up things. I also don't feel like I can upgrade my GPU any further past say a 1080ti since the 4790k would bottleneck the RTX cards for 1080p gaming. When it comes to a recording when trying to game I can see a noticeable hit to performance both from added input lag and frame rate drops.

Hi everyone, it's my first time on the forum but Linus suggested I come here on the most recent WAN show. I wanted some advice and appreciate the help. So basically I am a gamer first and for most but my needs since I first did my build have changed. I have gotten into running virtual machines, gameplay recording, and using the Adobe sweet for a ton of college projects. My current rig is rocking a I7-4790k and I wanted to know if it was still a good processor to meet my needs or if it was finally time to consider upgrading. Like, are the gains there now for me to justify the higher cost. Plus if I did upgrade should I go with Ryzen or stay with Intel. To give some more perspective on the rest of the build and so you understand my budget. The PC uses a hero 6 motherboard from ASUS with 16GB of DDR3 Ram clocked at 2133mhz out of the box. I have a GTX 1080 Founders edition card with 6Tb of SSD storage and a 512GB Samsung 860 pro SSD for the boot drive. I also have a singular 3Tb hard drive. If you can't tell I use a ton of storage for things outside gaming haha. Anyway sorry if there was too much info here I don't know the standard for the forum and I appreciate any info provided. The important thing for me is that the cost stays below 2k that's basically my budget for a new CPU, Motherboard, Cooler if needed, and Ram. I really want something that will have better IPC than my current I7-4790K if I do upgrade. If anyone suggests overclocking I have to eek out some extra performance but sadly I didn't really win the lottery as I can only get a truly stable 4.5GHz clock across all cores. That's at 1.3V.