I used them almost exclusively from about 2006 through 2012. I had coil whine in a card around that time and gave Gigabyte a shot and was pretty happy with them. Went back to EVGA for the 780 Ti, and then when I upgraded to the 980 Ti a month or two back. And now coil whine again. Just annoying.Really? I've used EVGA for maybe 6-8 years now? They have always been pretty solid for me.
Yea my first bought HD was a 500mb Maxtor (i think my original HD musta been 100mb), just recently opened it up and took a sledge hammer to the platters, i kept the rare earth magnet, good for the fridge.I've used a lot of different companies for components since I built my first PC (with parental help since I was only 10) in 1995 and really haven't had any issues with any company in particular except for Maxtor. Their hard drives are (were? do they even exist anymore?) garbage.
Microcenter by me has the i5 6600k for $209.99.. I am not looking to go too crazy with overclocking but I would like to have that option.to stay around $1k, you're basically going to want to go Intel i5 processor(probably not a brand new 6000-series, something more like an i5 4690k), probably something like an Nvidia 970 video card, a 256GB SSD(add another 1-2TB HD now for storage if it fits in the budget, if not then add it later), grab a nice Seasonic power supply (in the 600-750 watt range). Motherboards are just all over the place, you can get something decent and basic for around $100 from ASRock, or you can spend double or triple that for a high-end gaming motherboard that might be a little more overclockable.
I can piece something together this afternoon on PC Part picker if someone else doesn't get to it first
6700ks and 6500ks don't have a stock cooler in the box.Someone explain this to me - why does everyone think they have to have a custom CPU cooler? What the fuck is wrong with the one that comes in the box? I have an i5 4690k that I've overclocked for the sake of testing, but games are fully GPU bound on virtually any modern i5/i7 going back three generations. The stock cooler does fine in those circumstances, and if I give it a little bit of an overclock (say, to 4 ghz), it has no issues. What purpose is served by spending $25-$50 on a cooler? I might be able to crank up an overclock ever so slightly? Yay? It's not an egregious with a more expensive CPU, but I see people building budget rigs with locked i3s with custom coolers, I just don't get it.
Generally gaming machines run hotter than normal. The coolers are specced for normal operating conditions not running a huge GPU the temperature of the sun, overclocking and 5 hard drives. I've never had a stock cooler that was in a comfortable temperature band in the summer even if I wasn't pushing it.Someone explain this to me - why does everyone think they have to have a custom CPU cooler? What the fuck is wrong with the one that comes in the box? I have an i5 4690k that I've overclocked for the sake of testing, but games are fully GPU bound on virtually any modern i5/i7 going back three generations. The stock cooler does fine in those circumstances, and if I give it a little bit of an overclock (say, to 4 ghz), it has no issues. What purpose is served by spending $25-$50 on a cooler? I might be able to crank up an overclock ever so slightly? Yay? It's not an egregious with a more expensive CPU, but I see people building budget rigs with locked i3s with custom coolers, I just don't get it.