Have $1,500. Should i just use Chaud's September Unicorn build ?

[Toffie]

You want to dominate games the next 4 years then you need to overclock your CPU in CPU intensive games like WoW.
The performance hit you're gonna get in raids will be noticeable between a 4670 at stock and one overclocked.

280X is 200 $ cheaper and roughly the same performance as the 770.
Overclocking is pretty easy, i'll post a guide if you decide to get the 4670k. Should take 30 sec to do a safe overclock.

I also don't understand how everything went to 2000 $? The builds above takes you at 1300 $ with a monitor?
Also saying it's not beneficial to have a SSD for gaming & browsing makes me want to make a petition to fire this joke.

I think it's back to the drawing board :/

[Mrr]

You want to dominate games the next 4 years then you need to overclock your CPU in CPU intensive games like WoW.
The performance hit you're gonna get in raids will be noticeable between a 4670 at stock and one overclocked.

280X is 200 $ cheaper and roughly the same performance as the 770.
Overclocking is pretty easy, i'll post a guide if you decide to get the 4670k. Should take 30 sec to do a safe overclock.

I also don't understand how everything went to 2000 $? The builds above takes you at 1300 $ with a monitor?
Also saying it's not beneficial to have a SSD for gaming & browsing makes me want to make a petition to fire this joke.

I think it's back to the drawing board :/

Ok definatley calling them tomorrow and having them order the 4670k

I'd only be installing the OS on the ssd drive right ? Or am I putting any games on the ssd drive ? I have no problem dropping $100 on an ssd drive, the associate just gave me the impression that for my needs (gaming / net browsing) all i'll be getting is a faster OS boot, and it's not worth it.


For $100 more than what I paid, I can get 2 r9-280x, and lose the evga 4gb 770 classified. How's that sound ?

Or just wait till the r9-290x ?

Toffie think you might have missed something dude. I'm @ like $1,700. Then another $400 for extended 3 year warrantee and their fees to build it.

-thanks for the responses guys.

[Toffie]

Definently wait for the R9-290X if you can.
Crossfire scaling in WoW is pretty bad I believe.

OS + WoW and other games in the SSD.

[Mrr]

And regarding the ssd ?

[Toffie]

Depending on the budget I would get a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB.

[Mrr]

Depending on the budget I would get a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB.

Do I install anything other than windows 7 on that ssd ?

[Toffie]

Do I install anything other than windows 7 on that ssd ?

I use my SSD for games + OS, that would be my priority.
Stuff like media files should go on the mechanical drive.

I'd also change Win7 for Windows 8, since Win 8.1 is getting optimized with alot of new games.

[luckybeer]

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...ce-gtx-770-4k/

770 has better performance in 1080 and 1440p in this battery of tests at three resolutions. the 4k results are relatively meaningless to most consumers.

[Toffie]

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...ce-gtx-770-4k/

770 has better performance in 1080 and 1440p in this battery of tests at three resolutions. the 4k results are relatively meaningless to most consumers.

Better overview, and much larger game selection.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...II_TOP/26.html

[Operah]

Do I install anything other than windows 7 on that ssd ?

If you have space, add games. 120GB is fine, but 250GB would be great, for that extra headroom.

For 100 dollars more, two of r9-290x would DESTROY a 770, but AMD crossfire is known to be quite buggy. Not sure if they've fixed that this generation. As Toofie said, WoW doesn't have the best crossfire scaling, but with games such as BF4, you're going to see massive increases over one 770 if you decide to go with the two cards.

I wouldn't have bothered with the extended warranty, most company's have their own warranty for their components.

[Mrr]

Overclocking is pretty easy, i'll post a guide if you decide to get the 4670k. Should take 30 sec to do a safe overclock.

i picked up the 4670k and a 250gb ssd. Toffie can you teach me how to safely OC the processor ? I don't want the thing frying out.

Also: the graphics card, gtx 770 4gb classified, has a 2 week return policy on it. I'm going to use it for the next 2 weeks, and possibly exchange it for the upcoming amd radeon r9 290x.

[Toffie]

I had no clue how to properly overclock haswell at first since It's a little different from the last generation CPU's.
This is a nice instructional video which helped a ton for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CHs5_TdpXE

Just tell me If there is something you aren't sure of when you have watched the guide

[Mrr]

I had no clue how to properly overclock haswell at first since It's a little different from the last generation CPU's.
This is a nice instructional video which helped a ton for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CHs5_TdpXE

Just tell me If there is something you aren't sure of when you have watched the guide

Thanks man, will do !