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Mmm, the coming Volvo V40. Tasty.

Good birthday happy have! :hi: :birthday:

Yes, the 212+ will work with the new hardware. Current generation graphics cards probably won't drop in prices very much, they've already gone out of production. With the new generation though you should be able to pay the same price and get something that's quite a bit better. You never answered my question about OS.

It would be nice if people included their PC specs along with their impressions and what resolution and settings they play at. Can't wait to try this but it'll be over a month until I can. :c

Here's what I'd be tempted to do, the total price will probably go up a bit if you have to buy everything from a single store. There are another few points to make as well. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: be quiet! PURE ROCK 51.7 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.90 @ Newegg) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($139.99 @ Micro Center) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($57.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.98 @ OutletPC) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0 Video Card ($299.99 @ Amazon) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Amazon) Total: $941.83 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-06 13:21 EDT-0400 Do you have an operating system that will work? An OEM version of Windows won't work with a new system. Any reason in particular you went for the Z170 Gaming 5? You could get away cheaper. What on earth is a Topower PSU? From the little I can gain online some of that brand is just listed as "AVOID" when it comes to quality. To be honest, $1000 is a large budget and you can afford a good PSU in there as well. Remember that K-sku Skylake CPU's don't come with coolers, you have to get an aftermarket one. Remember that warranties and such will be a pain or maybe even non valid if you buy components from another country. And also - which is a huge point - remember that both AMD and Nvidia are releasing their new graphics cards in less than a month. If you can, or maybe even if you can't, you REALLY should wait to see what those bring to the table before buying a GPU. [edit:] I just saw that you will be going in July so that shouldn't be a problem.

Considering those are laptop CPUs I'm guessing you played at 1366x768?

Yeah there will be new info coming and hopefully some reviews. Another option is to buy an older series graphics card when the new are out as they will probably drop in value and quite a few people will probably be looking towards upgrading.

The points differ by 0.54%, it's virtually exactly the same. :p Are there any good free CPU benchmarks out there?

To be honest I think VRAM requirements will go up real fast if you want to play at the highest settings. I don't think it will bottleneck that bad to be honest, the jumps in performance in each Intel generation are incredibly small. Nvidia has a mysterious Twitch event tomorrow at 6PM PST, I'm not sure what we will see there. Their new cards will be released at the end of May/beginning of June though.

Well then you can underclock the memory?

Thanks, photography is fun and something I'd really like to be better at. :D

I'm crap at taking photos but I really like this one that I got today:

The manufacturer counts on you having a Chinese poobox that is 10 years old, arthritic and can deliver about about half of what it says on the label. They have to or they'd be sued by everyone who did have one of those and ended up burning their house down. That card with an overclocked 5930K uses no more than 350W. As Ryzza says, the quality of the PSU and it's components is far more important than the number on the side. With that said there's nothing wrong with having an over dimensioned PSU, I do too because I found it cheaper. :)

Even 600W is way - way - more than you need for a 970 or almost any single card. Either way I would recommend waiting as both Nvidia and AMD are launching new graphics cards in less than a month. Current rumors say that AMD's coming 490/490X will have GTX 980 Ti performance for half the price.

I don't think your CPU seems that bad, especially if you have the possibility to overclock it a bit? The GPU is definitely the bottleneck in your system. If I were you I'd definitely start there. If that's not enough then look in to new CPU and motherboard.

How can your PC be too weak? Does your motherboard not support 16GB of RAM?

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Hope I get to try it this summer :D The specs seem very strangely weighted, it looks super poorly optimized. 3820K as minimum?! That's INSANE. Yet it'll make do with a GT 740, isn't Intel's integrated GPU almost better than that these days? This game will basically be a CPU stress test. Why?

Aw I didn't want an MR2 :( I don't see the resemblance to be honest. :hmmm:

I also did one of the 718 :drool:

*looking in le rear view mirror* "... that really looked like a Bentley... i have to check" And there there was not only a Bentley. It was raining too.

Love the new 718's, great inside and out. :drool: Boxster has been bit of a dream car for me for a while and this one might actually be somewhat obtainable one day.

My automotive browsing history probably consists of Facebook tbh. :hmmm: I get all my news from there from various websites and magazines. The only site I occationally go to "manually" is Top Gear.

Or maybe... he... didn't? :whistle: :run: I actually saw one of those here a while ago, couldn't see the driver though.

How can you tell it's shiny? :panic: Are you spying on me? You can't see it in the picture! Maybe :cheeky: Probably not to begin with but later on, would be fun to see what my little 212 EVO is capable of. Still haven't overclocked my 4690K, was planning to read up on it and try it properly this summer but then this accidentally happened. :whistle: