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you guys are slowly floating into NERD territory. I think all those extra expensive boards are mostly for dikk measuring...if a budget is involved its more important to dial it down a bit with the MOBO (Maybe down to $150-$200) and allocate the rest of the funds towards a better gpu, ssd, ram, and everything else.

But that's just me.
He said he wanted the best :manny:
 

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Can't use an SSD for much myself, got too much data. 1 2TB, 1 1TB, 2 500GB. SSD doesn't havce capacity... yet. :scheme:

I still keep all my data on a HDD. seems like a waste to put music and shyt on a SSD, as there really is no benefit. your OS and games benefit the most from it. besides faster load times, most 'open world' games will run better, as they tend to have to stream a lot of data from the drive

like daze said, i don't keep data on my SSD.
i run Photoshop, Illustrator, games and my OS off my SSD because it will help with load time and performance.
all my movies, images and documents i keep on the HDD.

@Crakface can your flabtop run BF4 ultra settings at a locked 60fps :mjpls:?

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Nah, I mean for simply benchmarking.

Wait, you might as well get 3dMark and benchmark with that, if you wanna really see how good your shyt really is. You can download the demo and still run firestrike. If you give us those numbers you'd shut up a lot of naysayers about your laptop, and you can see if it really is performing as it should (you can run comparisons with other people that have your exact same setup)

http://www.3dmark.com/

It'll give you a graph like this

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I strongly recommend checking it out. You need to see if you're getting the numbers you paid for

i'm gonna try this, download is not starting for me but i'll keep trying.
on a side note i gotta get another 4gb of ram to max my mobo out at 16gb...one of my sticks died last year.
 

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i'm gonna try this, download is not starting for me but i'll keep trying.
on a side note i gotta get another 4gb of ram to max my mobo out at 16gb...one of my sticks died last year.
Yeah, you should really try it. I'm obsessive about my shyt and check it way too much (I have 59 hours in the full version alone...:dead:).

It's good to see that you're performing where you should be. If you're not you can try to isolate what the problem is. That's why I was so :mindblown: when my games weren't working well before. I got great 3d mark scores, but I had low performance with my games. fukking nvidia experience (probably fukking shadowplay really)....:smh:
 

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Yeah, you should really try it. I'm obsessive about my shyt and check it way too much (I have 59 hours in the full version alone...:dead:).

It's good to see that you're performing where you should be. If you're not you can try to isolate what the problem is. That's why I was so :mindblown: when my games weren't working well before. I got great 3d mark scores, but I had low performance with my games. fukking nvidia experience (probably fukking shadowplay really)....:smh:
3d mark has no credibility then
 

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What's the best motherboard? Going for a Intel i7 4790k.

Depends on what you need from the board. I have a Asus Z97 Deluxe, great board for overclocking and has a gang of features and doesn't have a shytty color scheme. If you're into yellow and black the Asrock Z97 OC Formula or MSI Mpower are good picks as well.


Hybnd UEFI in 2014, no thanks.

All those benchmarkers and testers always use this shyt:

ASUS Maximus VI Extreme (it's even got an OC panel)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131974

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VI_EXTREME/

Not Z97.
 

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3d mark has no credibility then
It has maximum credibility friend. Look around; it is the standard by which you benchmark your shyt. Like I said before, my problems were associated with nvidia experience and shadowplay. Everything is good now. My 3d mark scores are now reflecting in my games.

Are you just scared you're gonna get a score of 3000 or something? :ld:
 

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It has maximum credibility friend. Look around; it is the standard by which you benchmark your shyt. Like I said before, my problems were associated with nvidia experience and shadowplay. Everything is good now. My 3d mark scores are now reflecting in my games.

Are you just scared you're gonna get a score of 3000 or something? :ld:
Im getting it now.
 

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some day i'll be at "High End Gaming PC"
some day...

at least i'm not a console peasant or goofing on a flattop.
 
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