re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

Yep, that was my main gripe, other than the fact that he'd get a much better value from a 290 vs. the 780. But of course, his source of information is going to steer him towards the highest amount of brand recognition. There's just a huge chunk of blind followers of particular brands -- Nvidia or AMD fanboyism isn't even as dangerous as those who think everything from Corsair is better than the competition. Corsair-branded RAM, SSD, PSU, Cooler, and Case + ASUS motherboard + Intel/Nvidia or AMD/AMD = Safe fanboy assumption build.

Second gripe is he shouldn't be wasting the build on a 1080p 60hz monitor.

Third gripe was the overpriced Corsair RM series PSU and the premium on the Corsair vengeance RAM over the slightly slower G.skill kit (which appears to be easily overclockable to the exact specs of the corsair, but $100 less)

Then the motherboard being a bit excessive, which he relented on and chose a more sensible board and a separate wireless card.

I didn't discuss the case choice, because there's nothing objectively sound enough to overrule the aesthetic preference.

And I suggested 8.1 over 7, but I'm sure you know what the response was.

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Who is the X99 build for?

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Friend of mine doing a new build.

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Second, Gigabyte? Only go with MSI, ASUS and EVGA IMHO.

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Yeah, he had some crazy idea that Gigabyte stood out among the rest, which was odd to me. Usually, the motherboard brand myths are related to ASUS or some other brand. Gigabyte has never even been on my radar as a particularly stand-out company, neither good nor bad. The features that were driving up the cost of the Gigabyte are not really that interesting either -- Dual LAN and a Wifi card, and some onboard RJ45.

Tell your friend that I have a 1440 IPS monitor for sale under $150.

FOr what price and what latency? Is it matte, matte monitors suck.

I'll sale you a 1440 IPS for probably the same price.

Got the adapter, here we go.

Alright, got the GPU and fan/led all hooked up easily, about to try to boot it, if it doesn't boot I'm just gonna have to wait till tonight I gotta run.

IT'S ALIVE!!!! I DID IT! THE FEELS RIGHT NOW!

well done! download 3dmark11 after all you get all the drivers installed and post that shite

Okay in Windows install and bios it's not detecting my hard drives and bios says I only have 4GB of 1600 ram when I have 8GB of 1866

I don't remember plugging anything sata related into the mobo, but also don't see any unplugged cables.

Found the Sata cables got them all plugged in and moved the RAM into the other slots. About to try again.

8GB 1866 RAM detected and the SSD and HDD both detected too good to go! Installing Windows.

And will do Dev