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Hello all, this is a great event! Just stumbled on this now as I started when LTT posted its video on F@H against COVID-19. Last was active on the LTT forums Nov 2017, just came back to help on this pandemic. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF US AND ITS AMAZING TO SEE A COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER LIKE THIS! ❤️

Hello all, this is a great event! Just stumbled on this now as I started when LTT posted its video on F@H against COVID-19. Last was active on the LTT forums Nov 2017, just came back to help on this pandemic. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF US AND ITS AMAZING TO SEE A COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER LIKE THIS! ❤️

Hello all, this is a great event! Just stumbled on this now as I started when LTT posted its video on F@H against COVID-19. Last was active on the LTT forums Nov 2017, just came back to help on this pandemic. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF US AND ITS AMAZING TO SEE A COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER LIKE THIS! ❤️

Its overrated. PC components today are more resilient to ESD and you don't build up so much (unless you rub your feet on a carpet, work near mechanical equipement, etc.) that can damage your parts. I personally do the touching of a plugged in PSU to discharge myself. I feel many get anti-static straps for peace of mind rather than functionality.

Its okay, I promise you  

Its okay, I promise you  

Its okay, I promise you  

Devil's Canyon (refresh) is in between Haswell and Haswell-E. After Haswell-E is Skylake then Kaby Lake. These are only consumer (not server) CPU generations.

Sabertooth all the way! Red and black builds are too common these days. 

Sabertooth all the way! Red and black builds are too common these days. 

depends on the theme you're going i guess, the sabertooth is grey-ish, doesnt really fit with lots of build
 
its either black/white, black/red or white/blue most of the times
grey is sort of a dirty colour that goes with all but doesnt really look good imo
 
red = more FPS

Given the CPU TDP of 54W and 970 TDP of 145W (maybe a bit more when factory overclocked) you're not even half way to 500W. Should be fine assuming there's nothing else really power hungry in the system, and generally the GPU and CPU will be the biggest two power consumers in a desktop.
 
Even if the CPU then bottlenecks, it would still be faster than the 750Ti which would probably be the old bottleneck. There will always be something bottlenecking.

But even just 1 MHz overclock from stock causing a BSOD? It wouldn't be a bad overclocker... But the WORST LOL

if you have extra cpu horsepower, obs is a great alternative
but if you're cpu bounded (like using an i5 not an i7), then shadowplay is a great asset for game recording
 
also @Alexzz_
i forgot to mention that the R9 390 have more cpu overhead than the 970, so if your cpu isnt that powerful, the 970 would do you better
watch this video to learn more about it
 
there are a few, and more are to come
if you buy gpu based on things we have today, then you're gonna have a bad time

Nice, I'm looking at gettnig a PB258Q for that 1440 action.

Im a Music Addict and PROUD OF IT! I own an iPhone 5 now and I LOVE IT and if Apple doesn't fix this SHIT... I will NEVER use any of their devices AGAIN. Who cares if its super thin but you have to carry around a lightning to 3.5mm adapter or can't charge while listening to music?!?!?!

ITX for the X99 platform is impractical in my opinion because you wouldn't be able to utilize the PCI-E lanes the X99 platform is known for.

ITX for the X99 platform is impractical in my opinion because you wouldn't be able to utilize the PCI-E lanes the X99 platform is known for.

Im a Music Addict and PROUD OF IT! I own an iPhone 5 now and I LOVE IT and if Apple doesn't fix this SHIT... I will NEVER use any of their devices AGAIN. Who cares if its super thin but you have to carry around a lightning to 3.5mm adapter or can't charge while listening to music?!?!?!

Im a Music Addict and PROUD OF IT! I own an iPhone 5 now and I LOVE IT and if Apple doesn't fix this SHIT... I will NEVER use any of their devices AGAIN. Who cares if its super thin but you have to carry around a lightning to 3.5mm adapter or can't charge while listening to music?!?!?!

Not lava but wava

R9 390X but NOT FROM GIGABYTE because they hard voltage lock their AMD GPUs. How about one from Sapphire or MSI instead?

Sapphire NITRO R9 390 
 

 
or the MSI R9 390 if you want red accents similar to your mobo