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Mist_sl said:

It's not worth it.

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I just wanted to second this and also say it isn't even alittleworth it.

Jysin_sl said:

It's the new Z170 chipset that is alluring. Tons of USB3 ports, M.2 SSD interface, DDR4, etc.

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What's the allure of an M.2 SSD for you? I find them pretty shitty for home use.

Tons of USB 3 ports, do you need that?

DDR4 is basically nothing special right now.

I wouldn't upgrade unless money is burning a hole in your pocket.

Noodlemod_sl said:

What's the allure of an M.2 SSD for you? I find them pretty shitty for home use.

Tons of USB 3 ports, do you need that?

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M.2 SSD shitty for home use? Have you seen the advertised speeds on some of them? SATA is a massive speed bottleneck of old SSDs.

Samsung announces new 950 Pro SSD, with blazing read/write speeds on tap | ExtremeTech

The 950 Pro's argument for its higher cost lies in stratospheric performance - up to2500MB/s read and 1500MB/s write.

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As for USB3, yes I am severely lacking ports on my current Z77 based motherboard.

Mist_sl said:

It's not worth it.

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Mist_sl said:

I mean it's worth it if you have a use for your old box or know someone you can sell it to.

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The woman in you is getting stronger by the day.

I'm probably one of the dumber people here when it comes to upgrading and even I have talked myself out of doing anything this go-around. It took me 6 months but I finally convinced myself not to be a dumbfuck.

I want to upgrade my video card. I see two DVI out or DVI and VGA out are no longer a thing at all? Looked at like 10 different 950 / 960s so far.

Quineloe_sl said:

I want to upgrade my video card. I see two DVI out or DVI and VGA out are no longer a thing at all? Looked at like 10 different 950 / 960s so far.

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Basically. I have DVI-to-HDMI and DVI-to-VGA cables to workaround that when I need to, plus a ton of adapters lying around from all my GPU purchases.

Is there any reason not to just run the newer monitor on HDMI? I think it can do it, I'm too lazy right now to get up and look. Might as well buy a HDMI cable instead of an adapter

It's just funny how quickly the standards have changed back and forth. My previous video card had two DVI out, my current one has 1 DVI, 1 VGA again.

I think it was a GTX 260. The current one is a GTX 650 Ti

One of those dp on the 980s is a pass through or a duplicator or something weird as well.

Can confirm the 980 is goofy as fuck for DP. I can't actually get my computer to boot if I have my two monitors connected only via DP; neither screen comes on, and it's not even posting or something cause if you ctrl+alt+del it it just reboots instantly. It works 100% fine though if I leave one monitor connected via DP+DVI, then manually change the monitor input from DVI to DP once it's booted to the login screen.

Makes no fucking sense at all to me and I've kind of resigned myself to just live with it until I build something new.

I decided to go with the PNY GTX 950, which has 2 DVI out