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At 1440p you could ride that 8700k for a few more years no problem.

The recommended PSU for the RTX 3090 is 750W - and that should be a high quality 750w but that's when coupled with an I5/I7 it jumps to 850W recommended for an I9 paring with an RTX 3090. My recommendation would be a nice 850W you will want a bit of extra headroom when your I9 starts to draw a...

I would get a 10700k/11600k I would not go AMD at this point even though I use a 5600x, unless you already have a GPU. If you do not have a GPU already you literally can't even build with AMD unless you go with an APU model, so my pick would actually be the 10700k for the cores, backup iGPU...

Get a prebuilt on the cheap with something like an 10400/11400 (non F model) GTX 1660 super it's more than enough for 1080p high settings and you'll also have the iGPU for backup.

Agreed I haven't been around here since 2013 or so, and my specs are outdated but I do have a 5600x with a RTX 2060 Super and the rig in my specs updated last time I was here has been sitting in a closet with a GTX 1050ti which is a nice backup. Take care of what you have.

Great job :)

ya i know the drill =) talked may regular consumer into Start8 and other alternatives :). They work nicely.

lool. My MSI is doing just fine..... DOH! :slap: :rockout: Seriously - MSI has simply marketed most boards as "high performance" or "Military Class" when many of them they are neither. But many of the the 'midrange' or high end boards? are VERY good. One must know his hardware ....

^ Both of the last posts are relevant and accurate. I'm an MSDN member long time and have given MS plenty of feedback. Regarding Win8, it's true that once you get past and learn the new (* WANNA BE LIKE ANDRIOD*) os it boots faster than seven, and is as good a gaming OS as 7. Personally I can...

Prime example here. A man I work with (he's 53 BTW) plays flight sims and military style shooters on the PS3. Well, he asked for a new family PC. I built him a B75/i5-3450/ combo. His son was a PC gamer so he had a spare 560 non TI to use for his Dad. So he loaded up his sons copy of BF3 an...

LOL, actually, and quite ironically, windows 7 is Windows 8 done right :D. it's just miles better regarding overall usability and UI friendliness. Win8 offers no advantages but instead offers disadvantages.

IMO having used all of the above, the best value is with the Xonar DS, it has a decent enough headphone amp in the card itself gets great volume and some nice thumping with some good cans. Creative cards, offer a bit better audio positioning in games IMO, with CMSS3D in the past series of cards...

Try it and see, monitor the rail stability especially the +12v. Play some games, reboot 2036 times (kidding lol). :) 350W 'quality' PSU should be fine - the caveat to that is that there aren't too many quality 350W PSU's. Try it and find out.

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I'm doing the same thing, grabbing another HD7970 and another Asus 24" :D