Totally-A-Hero

My school has a insane gaming rig! who needs ipads? With a i7 and a 7870 ghz!!!!!! Oh wait im homeschooled......

If you are asking about TDP then the GTX Titan X is not for you...
If you are willing to spend....oh $1200+ on a single graphics card, power and money should NOT be a limitation.
 
EDIT:
You're running a Alienware PC....currently with a GTX 745 4GB OEM.
Will the Titan X even fit in your computer case?
The X51 R2 doesn't use standard ATX power supplies.

You kids these days have it so damn easy in building computers. It's utterly amazing how much has changed when 14 years ago at this time, I was spending hours and hours between my college IT classes figuring out why the hell Intel was getting its ass kicked by this "AMD" company and why spending the money on this new "Geforce 3" was such a big deal compared to previous versions that ran Quake 2 just fine but Unreal squashed that.
 
 
Back when I wanted to build my first computer in late 2000/early 2001 as a  young lad of 20 *God I feel old now* I had to go through a rirtual only other old, get off my lawn farts can understand now 
 
 
1. There was no Youtube, social media, flash art to give you visual refrences on how to put stuff together. You went and got a "Build Your computer Bible " Version 28 book from Barns an Noble and marked pages
 

 
 
 
2. You didn't have price search engines, you opened up multiple WINDOWS of etailers and compared prices side by side
 

 
 
3. You spent SLOWLY modem dialing across  forums for hours on end dealing with "veteran builders" who kept ignoring you
 

 
 
 
4. You had to still learn to use jumpers on your IDE drives correctly, or no booting for you. And God forbid if you bend one of the IDE pins
 

 
 
 
 
5. Make sure you didn't crush your new Athlon GPU die by putting too much pressure on heatsink
 

 
 
 
6.  USB was VERY MUCH "Plug and Pray" back in those days...
 

 

 
 
 
7.  Driver downloads took half an hour on times on dial up modems
 

 
 
 
 
 
8. BIOS'es were still big Blue and white screens of fear.  Good luck configuring boot up devices if you didn't understand with the included manual 
 

 
 
 
 
9. LED lighting? Hah, didn't exist. You spent good money on a cold cathode to show of your pimped rig through the window YOU YOURSELF cut and installed
 

 
 
 
 
10.  Dual CPUs?  On a single die? NO no, they had their own sockets. If you had a dual cpu setup, you were a farking god among men
 

 
 
 
11. Overclocking was a true russian roulette game, with a mis firing gun.  You would spend hours on forums trying to get detailed information on what BIOS settings to tweak and NOT to touch. There was no preset and "forget" oveclocking, let alone Windows versions
 

 
 
 
12. Boot to windows over USB? Whats that? 
 

 
 
 
 
13. If your Windows key didn't take for whatever reason, have fun spending half an our on hold with microsoft. 
 

 
 
 
14. Is your Soundcard or add on NIC card *most mobo's didn' thave onboard LAN* not working or crashing system? You got to play the PCI slot swapping and reinstalling gaming to find which one was the culprit
 

 
 
 
 
15. All in one, prebuilt water cooling kits for $100? Pffffaa bwaa haa!! You had to spend $300 or more from DangerDen on DIY kit with tubing like garden hoses and pray to god your seals held on your waterblocks and self made reserviors. 
 

 

 
 
 
 
16. Downloadable ISO's? Hah, you went to the store and bought your copy of Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 if you were a really rich pimp and prepared for hours long install with the CDROM drive spinning away
 

 
 
 
 
 
17. Pre painted and sweet looking cases with good airflow? HAAA!!! Nope, you broke out the spray paint cans, the dremel and jigsaw and MADE your case look good and cool well. 
 

 

 
 
 
 
18.   24-30 inch flat screen LCDs? Oh no, you were a pimp if you could afford a quality, 20" flatscreen Sony Trinitron that weighed 40 pounds that you lugged to LAN parties. If you were poor, you bought Viewsonic 19'' CRT monitor.
 

 
 
 
 
19. If your dial up 56k modem was getting you downloads speeds of around 33 kbytes a second, God was smiling on you.
 

 
 
 
 
20. Was your case getting to hot with that AGP graphics card and multiple hard drives?  You had to make your own blowhole, jigsaw style!  Or get real creative....
 

 

 
 
 
21. Presleeved power supply cables and SATA cables? Haa!!!  What are those?
 

 
 
 
 
22. If you couldn't afford a $300 CD burner, you got a Iomega Zip drive.
 

 
 
23. You wanna listen to your Blink 182 music CD in full digital? Be sure you have this cable installed
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
So be thankful you little digital rascals of what you have today. Now get off my lawn....   
 
 
And after some googling, I actually found a archieved image of my VERY FIRST computer build back in May of 2001 with my very first case modding project based off the Enlight 7237 case which was vey popular back in the day. Wow....the feels....
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

Terry

 
<3

x86 in this context also means x86-64
 
edit: ninja'ed

x86 also refers to x86_64, which is still used in almost all laptops and desktops. Unless you're using ARM.

WCCF is a legit source

"Everybody is fired" 

Wow, what a deal.

Yes but a 290x would be better .
 
Its a better card at higher resolutions.
 
Hey dont hate its true.

Not sure i can do that, maybe reverse the list

Guys if you want to have/keep Girl friends, keep these things in this order:
1.GF
2.Sex
3.PC

I'm married on my 3rd year, so you can say I have a serious girfriend. 

Crying while reading this thread!
Well, i dunno, i just suck at things!

I'm turning 19 in 5 months and i never had a girlfriend.
 
EDIT: I now have a girlfriend. Lol.

Man please, I got an  Aston Martin Vanquish, Lamborghini Gallardo, Porsche 911, Mercedes-Benz Brabus SLS AMG, Ferrari 458 Italia and Rolls Royce Ghost just for reviewing a potato. Here they are in definitely my Dubai Exotic Cars dealership, which I won for reviewing a Chicken Pot Pie.

Sweden sent me a free koenigsegg Agera for reviewing a Saab 9-3
 
You like?

Given your post history...
 

Why are you complaining, that's ridiculous.

in Australia cooling is very very very (did i emphasise the very?) important because it is unbelievably hot here in the summer and to keep the 290 as cool/close to i would need to invest in fans to which would probably cost the same, but your argument is the reason i first considered it.

You tell me: https://www.origin.com/en-ca/great-game-guaranteeSeems to me Valve is the only joke.

EA

4 Gigahertz? What are we, back in the year 2000? That is so irrelevant these days...
Bottlenecking means the CPU will be too slow to fully utilize the GPU. With a 260X that won't really be the case, but the 8350 is still a bad deal. As are all AMD FX CPU's, no matter how many times Logan keeps recommending them.

90s called. they want their mouse back

Well your mommy must love you