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When using this resource, please read the opening post. The Tech Support forum regulars have helped create countless of desktop systems without any compensation. The least you can do is provide all of the information required for them to help you properly.
iTzSnypah
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1738 Posts
February 05 2014 10:25 GMT
#4281
Alt+Tab
Win+Tab

then.... Win+right/left
Team Liquid needs more Terrans.
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
February 05 2014 10:33 GMT
#4282
Ah that work even better. So many tips picked up, I'll never lose a window again. :p
maru lover forever
never_Nal
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica676 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-05 16:12:10
February 05 2014 15:10 GMT
#4283
Im totally new at this, I am posting because I really need the help.

CPU Intel Core i7-4770k 35GHz Quad Core 320$ - Amazon

CPU Cooler NZTX Kraken x60 98.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler 116$ NCIX US

MotherBoard Asus Maximus VI Hero ATX LGA1150 190$ NCIX US

Memory Corsair Vengance 16gb (2x8gb) DDR3-1600 160$ Microcenter

Storage Samsung 840 Evo 250gb 2.5 SSD 190$ SuperBliz

Seagate Barracuda 1tb 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal HD 59$ Outlet PC

Video Card Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card 400$ B&H

Case NZTX Phantom 630 Matte Black ATX Full Tower Case 168$ Newegg

Power Supply Corsair RM 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply 120$ Newegg

Optical Drive Asus DVD-E818AAT/BLK/GEN DVD/CD Drive 16$ Newegg

Monitor Asus VH238 23 or 25 Monitor X2 150$(Each) Newegg

I want to have a good gaming gear. but it's also important that It can run smoothly all the 3D animation programs (Autodesk's Maya, ZBrush, Cinema 4D, Vue, 3Ds Max, etc...) also the adobe package, mostly After Effects, Photoshop, Illusrtator :D

Right now the cost of this is around 2k Dollars, If we can get the price lower that would be great, and I dont know anything about compability so that would be awesome to check too :D
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
February 05 2014 15:31 GMT
#4284
List prices per component (and where you are buying from)
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
never_Nal
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica676 Posts
February 05 2014 16:12 GMT
#4285
Edited Post
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Ata
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada356 Posts
February 05 2014 18:34 GMT
#4286
Unless you are looking to do crossfire, change power supply to something like CAPSTONE-45 @ $60: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006BCKDGW/?tag=pcpapi-20

That case at $170 :/

Cheaper ram which is also faster GeIL EVO Veloce Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144617&clickid=WfeUomSTTRYF1E:xBZ3oOQB9UkTyukxnNTWRxU0&iradid=97618&ircid=2106&irpid=79301&nm_mc=AFC-IR&cm_mmc=AFC-IR-_-na-_-na-_-na

SSD seems pricy, consider Crucial M500 240GB @ 125 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BQ8RM1A/?tag=pcpapi-20

Consider air cooling

Expensive motherboard :/ if you dont know exactly which features of it you would need, you are spending too much money.

Spend all these savings on good monitors (unless those are already good)
wussleeQ
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States3130 Posts
February 05 2014 19:02 GMT
#4287
does anyone know how much i could sell a used 3570k, asus p8z77-v lk and enermax ets t40-tb for?

also, could anyone recommend a pretty decent z87 motherboard that won't have any issues with my noctua nh-d14 that i just bought (room for ram and stuff)?
BW -> League -> CSGO
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
February 05 2014 19:16 GMT
#4288
On February 06 2014 04:02 wussleeQ wrote:
does anyone know how much i could sell a used 3570k, asus p8z77-v lk and enermax ets t40-tb for?

also, could anyone recommend a pretty decent z87 motherboard that won't have any issues with my noctua nh-d14 that i just bought (room for ram and stuff)?


GA-Z87X-D3H
maru lover forever
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
February 05 2014 19:17 GMT
#4289
You don't have to worry about your new board. It even typically works fine on the smaller mATX boards. You can also take a look at this compatibility list on Noctua's website after deciding on a board: http://noctua.at/main.php?show=compatibility_gen&products_id=34&lng=en
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
February 05 2014 19:40 GMT
#4290
Apparently Mantle is good but Nvidia's drivers are competitive?

http://techreport.com/review/25995/first-look-amd-mantle-cpu-performance-in-battlefield-4//2

This is the case in BF4 at least.
maru lover forever
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
February 05 2014 22:57 GMT
#4291
Here's multiplayer numbers and on different CPUs at different speeds: http://pclab.pl/art55953-3.html
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-06 04:32:11
February 06 2014 04:21 GMT
#4292
On February 06 2014 04:40 Incognoto wrote:
Apparently Mantle is good but Nvidia's drivers are competitive?

http://techreport.com/review/25995/first-look-amd-mantle-cpu-performance-in-battlefield-4//2

This is the case in BF4 at least.


I've seen lots of stuff like this

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^That's only about a 10% performance improvement (less than 15k frames to about 16k in the bench run) but it sure looks/feels like a completely different game, i'd imagine

However, this is a pic from an nvidia user very recently (days ago) and similar to what i saw in beta and have seen from people giving me into since:

[image loading]

^An average FPS of 149, yet would look terrible compared to quake live/cs in terms of both smoothness and playing on a strobe backlight, because when you're getting so many frames strobed twice (screen refresh twice on 120 or 100hz before frame changes) you get weird doubled-up images. I'd rather play on a 280x and med settings than experience that kind of performance, for the better gameplay - The mantle pic clearly has no frames slower than 10ms aside from the hang that happened once in 16k frames.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
February 06 2014 08:18 GMT
#4293
I was at microcenter, picked up an i5 + mobo.

Looking for an accompanying gpu right now. I was looking at the 650ti boost but it isn't really that available right now. Is there anything else at that general price point that is Nvidia? Maybe I"m nuts but I"ve had such terrible luck with ati drivers I"m a bit scared of going back there.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
February 06 2014 08:31 GMT
#4294
For what games, resolutions, settings and FPS targets?
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
February 06 2014 08:35 GMT
#4295
On February 06 2014 17:31 Cyro wrote:
For what games, resolutions, settings and FPS targets?

Dota, SC2, warthunder, civ 5, high (not max or ultra) settings, 1080p, 60fps. A general goal.

I had a 250gts and it was adequate, (although it doesn't meet the above standards) so I don't need anything like a 760.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
February 06 2014 08:46 GMT
#4296
Regular 650ti might do fine if you're happy with a lower mid tier card with 1gb of VRAM
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-06 08:57:52
February 06 2014 08:56 GMT
#4297
On February 06 2014 17:46 Cyro wrote:
Regular 650ti might do fine if you're happy with a lower mid tier card with 1gb of VRAM

Yeah... I was thinking i wanted one step up from that. But I think the ti would be ok. Definitely would bottleneck the i5 but I'm not a graphics freak. Being able to stream would be nice but a lot of that falls on cpu if I'm not mistaken.

Oh, and eve because why not.
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
February 06 2014 09:24 GMT
#4298
On February 06 2014 17:35 Froadac wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 06 2014 17:31 Cyro wrote:
For what games, resolutions, settings and FPS targets?

Dota, SC2, warthunder, civ 5, high (not max or ultra) settings, 1080p, 60fps. A general goal.

I had a 250gts and it was adequate, (although it doesn't meet the above standards) so I don't need anything like a 760.


War Thunder might do well enough with a GTX 660, check to see if it's in your price range. It should be something like $200? Maybe less even.

650 Ti is all right but it's still somewhat entry level. Though for Dota 2 and SC2 it's definitely enough. I don't know about Civ 5 but I don't imagine it to be graphically demanding.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125443

That's actually all right, especially if you feel like selling Assassin's Creed. Could get yourself quite a nice GPU $50-60 off.
maru lover forever
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
February 06 2014 09:57 GMT
#4299
yeah, what would the resale on it be? Ebay it or?

If it's reasonable resale I'll purchase that, it's more than I need but that never hurt anyone.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20345 Posts
February 06 2014 10:07 GMT
#4300
Resale probably not much, i remember checking a bunch of games before that ended up being like 5 dollars. For brand new ac4 i'd bet on more but 60.. hah
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
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