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Hi all, I recently posted about whether I should upgrade my 3930k @4.9 to Coffee lake, but was ultimately dissuaded from doing so due to the marginal improvement for the cost (30% increase in performance for $1000 platform switch). However, I have decided that I really do need more cores...

Hi all, So a bit of a strange question - I recently obtained a 3930k, RIVE combo that clocks extremely well (4910mhz). I had essentially been waiting for Coffee Lake to come back in stock (8700k specifically), but now I am starting to question whether I actually need the upgrade. While I...

Hi all, The money I had originally ear marked for a Ryzen upgrade has been burning a hole in my pocket (While Ryzen is an amazing platform, I think my Haswell at 4.5Ghz may be faster in games - which will be the primary function of this machine). Currently I have an overclocked Gtx 1070 and...

Hi guys, A colleague of mine offered an interesting proposition - he would give me his 5820k/board/ram in exchange for my 4770k combo (specs in sig). This seems like a no brainer, but here's the catch - the 2011 motherboard is a workstation board that apparently offers no overclocking...

As a gift to my nephew, I wanted to build him his very first computer. His only request is that the case follows the "Thomas the Tank Engine" theme (Blue and White). Bitfinex used to make a pretty cool blue micro-atx case, but they have been discontinued. I was thinking about buying a cheap...

I'm currently running a 6 monitor setup in the office using integrated graphics + 5450 + 1 USB 3.0 to VGA adapter. It actually works surprisingly well, but I notice that there is a significant lag when minimizing/maximizing windows, or moving a window between two screens. Given that one of...

Looking to update the workstation in the office, and I came across cheap Xeon e7 8870v2 (15 core CPUs). Will these work in a any dual LGA 2011 board? I am looking at the Tyan S7050GM4NR board in particular (it is the cheapest I can find), but it only mentions support for e5 cpus. In fact, I...

First and foremost, if this isn't the appropriate forum, please feel free to move: I have a real head scratcher of a problem that I was hoping to get people's input on. The PC in our lab will not allow for two different video cards to be installed: Windows will disable the drives for the...