KillerTech

Well Just installing the card now so I will soon be able to see if DSR is any good, Thanks to everyone for talking about their experience with DSR.

Yea that could be an issue, but I run a 900D with 9 case fans so noise is long past one of my concerns.

Thanks for replying, I should be able to run DSR without any large performance impacts using the 1080 I would imagine, as to my founders edition choice it is because of my build theme (black and yellow) and the founders edition just fits in well, plus I am a big sucker for that classic Nvidia style but I am open to suggestions

I did look at other cards but I have a themed build and all other cards would look out of place, besides there is something I love about the founders.

So I plan on ordering a GTX 1080 founders edition in the next few days however I do not plan on buying a 4K monitor until at least next year, until then I will only be gaming on 1080p displays which to most will people will seem very overkill however I plan on using Nvidias DSR technology and up-scaling my 1080p monitors to 4k. I completely understand how the DSR technology works however I have looked all over YouTube and all comparison videos make it look no different to just running standard 1080p. I am just wondering if anyone actually runs DSR and if they notice any difference.

Yea I had considered the corsair 760T a year ago however in the end I decided on the 900D because it is more customisable, better for future water cooling and I have more room to work with.

To address the following concern (CX PSU's) nobody panic I already now about the issues surrounding corsairs CX series of PSU's I did not buy that PSU specifically for this build, I had this PSU from over 8 months ago when I first ordered my 290 and I needed more power cheaply in a lower end build, It will be changed out as soon as I get the chance.

So I have finally completed my main system, and it has took me just over two months to complete. The system was actually running over a month ago however I have just finished painting hardware and done some other small adjustments. I have more or less stuck to my original plan which was a strict black and yellow colour scheme. I also plan on upgrading more things over time as new hardware is released and I am also planning on doing a custom water cooling loop next year. Parts CPU - I7 5820k CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-U14S cooled by a 120mm Corsair PWM fan (Custom painted yellow) Motherboard - MSI X99A XPOWER AC RAM - Kingston HyperX Fury Black 2 x 4 GB 2133 MHZ CL14 GPU - Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X 4GB (Custom painted yellow) Case - Corsair 900D with 4x Corsair SP120mm fans (Custom painted yellow) PSU - Corsair CX 750M SSD - Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB HDD - Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD - Seagate Barracuda 1TB White custom made LED lighting - http://addoncustoms.com/ Thermal Paste - Arctic MX4 PcPartPicker - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/HqWkBm The Main Build The build itself went very smoothly with few exceptions. I had no issues apart from mounting my Noctua cooler. I have mounted it many times before on different boards however I struggled with the Intel mounting brackets, however after some research and talking to some friends, I managed to fit the cooler when mixing a combination of both AMD and Intel mounting gear however it turned out to be perfectly secure. Installing LED'S Now in my personal opinion if you are spending more than £1000 on a PC and your case has a side window you should definitely have LEDs. I have had different sets of LEDs in my computers for over 2 years now and Project BumbleBee was going to be no exception. I had originally planned on carrying my NZXT HUE over from my previous system, it is a solid lighting kit with hundreds of different colours, however it was just too dull and the supposed white looked blue. I needed something special for this PC, and so I began my quest for the best white PC lighting. I looked absolutely everywhere however all the white LED kits had complaints of being either too dull or having poor life span. I started asking around LTT and it got so bad at one point that someone even recommended I installed a 5m outdoor reel in my PC running of the mains, the 900D is not that big. Eventually I came across Marcus, the director of AddonCustoms, a company that hand makes LED strips to order. At this point I realised my quest for the best LED strips in the universe was over. GPU Painting So like I said before I am trying to stick to a black and yellow colour scheme and as much as I did not want to admit it the R9 290 tri-X was orange. My first attempt with a yellow sharpie (NEVER DO THIS). It looked like a mass of small children had been let loose next to my work bench. I eventually decided I would have to do it properly, so I picked up some more yellow paint and took my GPU fully apart and I painted it just like I painted the fan rings. The end result was way more impressive than I had ever imagined. SHOWCASE So for now the system is complete, be sure to let me know what you think.

I did lots of research on this motherboard however at the time a couple of things escaped my mind that's all.

Yea well if I had done any more research It would have took the meaning out of FIRST LOOK besides I think I did ok when you consider that board has a insane amount of accessory's.

Thanks I am in the middle of moving to a much bigger room I am going to have a dedicated recording set so I will look at proper lighting when I move in.

Thanks. About the bios so far I have had no problems with using it for the basics setting up my hard drive configuration, changing fan speeds and installing windows however I don't think I will find out the true good and bad until I start overclocking but seems good so far. A long way off AMD standers.

Now if you are not familiar with MSI's XPower motherboards then you should be. MSI has two classes of motherboards geared towards extreme overclocking, that is the XPower and the MPower. Now the M and XPower have been around for some time featured for the Intel chipsets Z87 and Z97 and its first extreme platform X99 and soon the Z170 platform as well. At the point MSI scrapped the black and yellow colour scheme I lost interest for Skylake. For that exact reason today I am reviewing the MSI X99S XPower AC Motherboard one of the highest end motherboards in MSI’s X99 lineup. Prices: USD: $460 GBP: £300 Euros: €410 So first, we have the box and as far as boxes go this one is awesome; you can check out my full unboxing and first look at everything in the box including the board itself, below. The board looks absolutely awesome with its black and yellow colour scheme. All of the onboard buttons light up red and yellow along with the XPower logo and the audio boost chip. Something as well that stood out on boot, was the digital red numbers on the top right that display the CPU temperature as well as the boot code in case your awesome new build doesn’t boot! Besides looking awesome, the XPower board also performs with a crap ton of new features allowing it to do so. - DDR4 RAM (as with all X99 boards) - 4-WAY MULTI-GPU (allowing for 4-way SLI and CrossFire) - M.2 Gen3 X4 (faster transfer speeds up to 32GB/s) - 12 Phase CPU digital power (better overclocking with stable power delivery) - Enhanced PWM cooling (better on-board cooling) - OC Essentials (on-board switches including a profile switch and CPU temp) - Intel WI-FI AC module (Wireless internet and Bluetooth antennas) Now as I have only just installed it I have not started testing the overclocking ability of this board yet however I have entered the bios and was very impressed with how easy it is to navigate and use, especially when you take in to consideration the massive amount of settings and features you can access. Conclusion Now the final thing to consider is was this board worth the price and in my opinion, yes the amount of features and accessories you get, make the board well worth it. Whether I manage to use all of the new features and accessories is another thing all together. So depending on what you plan to use this board for determines whether you will get your money’s worth or not.