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- Jan 10, 2012
my game rig cpu is dying, I am killing it with volts, but, so it goes.
it'a a 4790K on an asrock z97 extreme 9 board, the board is still fine, it's just the illegal immigration is slowly killing it.
I have ordered a pair of intel 8086K cpus, yes, it's a stupid waste of money but, why not.
I promise I'll be focused like a laser on the rest of the budget, as I always have.
I need to pick out a motherboard, I want some blue without rgb, 2 m2 sata ports, I know nvme is all the rage but for me it's only at boot that nvme shines and I have a few of those around anyway.
ram will be some trident z rgb of some sort, ram doesn't buy me much when gaming, i'll grab 64 gigs for each and that will be that.
I'll keep my msi 980TI's in sli for the most part, with this rig I game across 3 1080p monitors and when I game on all six I swap in my rig with 1080's in sli and they get the job done, at A frame rate that works for me.
I game GTA-V with a group that includes a bunch of nfl players that have rigs built for them out west someplace but I prefer to build my own, it's a nice feeling to curb stomp a guy that has over $10,000 in the custom built box alone with a couple thousand dollar home brew rig.
I'll keep my cooling system as is, it's massive for a cpu only loop and I REALLY like the looks of my xspc raystorm block and it also performs very well indeed.
I'll be replacing both my game rigs with this setup so it'll be two of everything, what fun this is going to be.
so now begs the question, what board would you suggest? the asrock extreme 4 fits the features, but the color is rgb……..
it'a a 4790K on an asrock z97 extreme 9 board, the board is still fine, it's just the illegal immigration is slowly killing it.
I have ordered a pair of intel 8086K cpus, yes, it's a stupid waste of money but, why not.
I promise I'll be focused like a laser on the rest of the budget, as I always have.
I need to pick out a motherboard, I want some blue without rgb, 2 m2 sata ports, I know nvme is all the rage but for me it's only at boot that nvme shines and I have a few of those around anyway.
ram will be some trident z rgb of some sort, ram doesn't buy me much when gaming, i'll grab 64 gigs for each and that will be that.
I'll keep my msi 980TI's in sli for the most part, with this rig I game across 3 1080p monitors and when I game on all six I swap in my rig with 1080's in sli and they get the job done, at A frame rate that works for me.
I game GTA-V with a group that includes a bunch of nfl players that have rigs built for them out west someplace but I prefer to build my own, it's a nice feeling to curb stomp a guy that has over $10,000 in the custom built box alone with a couple thousand dollar home brew rig.
I'll keep my cooling system as is, it's massive for a cpu only loop and I REALLY like the looks of my xspc raystorm block and it also performs very well indeed.
I'll be replacing both my game rigs with this setup so it'll be two of everything, what fun this is going to be.
so now begs the question, what board would you suggest? the asrock extreme 4 fits the features, but the color is rgb……..