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I would only prioritize refresh rate if you play a lot of, say, competitive FPS games, like CS:GO. In those types of games, higher refresh rate is definitely helpful.

You have a year to decide if you want it or not, after that AFAIK you have to pay for it. I would wait a little after it officially gets released, just in case of bugs and what not edit: and for clarification, once you upgrade it's yours forever.

"Pumping games out fast" usually doesn't end well What you described is exactly why BF4 was a giant piece of shit for the longest time

Also that looks like a lot of dust accumulation in your case, might wanna buy a can of compressed air and blow all that out.

You could try using a sheet of paper or thin piece of cardboard, etc to push the dust out, then used compressed air on whatever's left over

Cable management + Hyper 212 Evo (comes with its own thermal paste, decent stuff) for 25 pound will work wonders

Sorry OP for offtopicness. The engine is quite flexible and accommodates any resolution you throw at it. With bezel compensation, I just had to edit cfg to get the correct aspect ratio. Wow those are some hot screenshots, can't imagine how immersive it is to play surround + trackir

I wouldn't ever bother overclocking on a laptop. You almost literally will not notice a difference in performance (especially for A3), it's not worth the risk

You should really try the wireless first before anything else, I bet it will sound fine on that

How does using a controller make you a console peasant? I don't want to drive with mouse and keyboard dammit.

I'm assuming the TV is 1920x1080, so size makes literally no difference. Only the TV has a shittier image because of much lower pixel density. But OP might be using a 4k TV. @OP Can you link the TV or give a name?

You know even if Google had all the perfect results, which it doesn't, that's such a scummy thing to do. The OP came here asking for help with building a PC and you're basically saying "piss off and figure it out yourself". - - - - PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: MSI Z97-Gaming 3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($92.99 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.48 @ OutletPC) Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($169.99 @ Newegg) Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.98 @ OutletPC) Power Supply: Corsair Builder 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($54.99 @ Micro Center) Total: $654.41Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when availableGenerated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-22 14:09 EST-0500 All color coordinated and everything. Would've went with AMD but this is a DayZ oriented build. For the OS you could try http://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap/ or get pretty good discounts at www.g2a.com Some helpful YouTubers for learning how to build a PC are LinusTechTips and CareyHolzman

First result is Alienware. Yep, definitely helpful.

I can't see how they will work out the controls and still have everything be quick and easy to access Even if they do figure that out, trying to aim accurately is going to be an absolute disaster. That's just a fundamental problem with shooter-style games and controllers

Motherboards always include SATA data cables

His 3570 is locked, so no that is not possible AFAIK If you're starting to notice some lackluster performance in the games you play, then it would probably be worth upgrading the GPU. CPU is perfectly fine for gaming for now.

You kinda missed the point entirely

90-100+ degrees C is when you need to worry about GPU temps, 72C is perfectly normal.

Your temps are fine Take a look at this, might be a solution - http://support2.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-US;2545227 Here's the fix it download - http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9775756

I think you're being a little too optimistic. For all we know DayZ for PS4 could be a flop or not even a thing at all, but mod support on a PS4 game? That's stretching it really far. Also I'm pretty sure the DayZ (mod) mod makers didn't go into mod making with the mindset of "I'll be sitting on stacks of cash soon". People mod because they want to, just look at all the insane mods for games like Skyrim, Minecraft, L4D2, etc etc.

Slap a 970 in there, overclock it, and you've practically got a 980 for $300 less not with that power supply you aren't still an amazing card nonetheless, definitely worth the investment.

DayZ will run like shit no matter what

I've been having some strange GPU/software problems and I'm not sure why. I installed my 970 today, but the monitor would receive no signal from the GPU. Windows would start to load, but then it would go black. Long story short I managed to make my way into safe mode and install drivers. I also uninstalled Intel graphics drivers because I was running on integrated graphics for a few days. Everything is good now but when I went to install Windows (7) updates, the monitor lost signal. I had the same exact problem as described above again. Going back into safe mode and doing a system restore fixed the issue but I'm concerned that this will keep happening in the future. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? specific card is a Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970

That was one of the first things I tried but unfortunately made no difference I did find a beta patch (344.80) last night which apparently fixes some signal loss issues. Can't really test it since my PC is working fine now but your friend might find it useful http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3607/~/geforce-hotfix-driver-344.80 Works on both 980 and 970 edit: Borderlands 2 was having some pretty bad artifacting on this patch so I downgraded to the latest official one, artifacting gone. Not sure about other games though

Yeah I've heard a lot about people having display issues with the 900 series. It is relatively new so maybe a fix will come out sometime. Just thought there was maybe something I was missing, my brain is racked from frustration Tried another monitor but it was having the same problem