what kinda PSU? Many cards are more power efficient than their 2010 counterpart

link?

Can someone recommend me a high end video card that won't break the bank.
My processor is a intel Xeon E5-2630 with 64gb ram.
my motherboard is a Supermicro X9SCL i think.

Bro, are you gaming on a workstation or a server? :awwyeah:

What is your budget?

Club 3D Radeon R9 280 Royal King 960MHZ 3GB 5.0GHZ GDDR5 2XDVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Video Card - CGAX-R9287O - R9 280 at $199, good value with lots of performance.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 OC 1216MHZ 4GB 7.0GHZ GDDR5 2xDVI HDMI 3XDISPLAYPORT PCI-E Video Card - GV-N970IXOC-4GD - GTX 970 at $389, damn good card and should be lots of power for the future.

LOL ya i work from home so my company got me this computer.. its a desktop with server parts haha. Thanks for the recommendations!

Need some quick advice. Is the PSU adequate for this build? Could I go cheaper like getting a Corsair CX600M without compromising anything? Also, 212 Evo is the best bang for buck for air cooling...but its ugly as hell. Is it worth shelling out more money for watercooling? Something like the Cooler Master Nepton 240M. Sorry for the noob questions...first build so I'm trying to make it good.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($34.75 @ Vuugo)
Motherboard: Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($159.98 @ DirectCanada)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.98 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card ($429.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 w/Window (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $0.00)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.99 @ NCIX)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($19.85 @ Vuugo)
Mouse: Logitech G602 Wireless Optical Mouse (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $863.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-04 11:43 EDT-0400

600W PSU is sufficient. Also, those prices for the motherboard and videocard aren't that great... check out the latest NCIX sale. Also, I'd go Gigabyte over ASUS for a motherboard.

MSI GeForce GTX 970 OC 1102/1241MHZ 4GB 7GHZ GDDR5 HDMI 2x DVI DisplayPort PCI-E Video Card - GTX 970 4GD5T OC
GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC ATX LGA1150 Z97 DDR3 PCI-E16 PCI-E8 XFIRE/SLI SATA3 USB3 HDMI DVI Motherboard - GA-Z97X-SOC

As for watercooling, it depends on what you want to do. Are you going to over-clock a lot? If not, stick with air cooling as it is simpler. I have a Corsair Hydro H100, and it's been good. I OC'ed my i7-2600K from 3.4ghz to 4.4ghz, a fairly mild one, but I like keeping the temperatures down.

Anyway to resurrect a dead SSD?

Computer froze and was restarted, not its stuck on MB splash screen. I unplugged all extra devices and gpu card to have bare minimum chances of a problem and booted again but still stuck on splash screen. Then I plugged the SSD into a sata dock on another computer and it won't detect it.

When SSD was plugged into the original computer and stuck on splash screen, the LED on the SSD was red.

Looking to buy a computer mainly for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, some REVIT, Chief Architect...
Can anyone tell me if this computer on Craigslist is any good?
HP Pavilion Xeon Z400 with Intel Quad Core Xeon processor

Much appreciated~

No, too old and crappy... will be not that fast with those specs (4GB RAM? Hope your AutoCAD file is not very big!).

What's your budget?

Hoping to stay below $1000 :| Have not bought a computer in a long time, so don't have a clue how much a decent machine goes for nowadays..

http://www.revscene.net/forums/702974-i7-gaming-pc.html this unit, add RAM and a SSD. Try and bargain him down.

My friend is looking for a laptop in the range of 600-800.

His usage is some gaming and browsing.

He was thinking of getting the lenovo Y40

Any other deals or suggestions? He's not in a hurry either.

What kind of gaming?

Just found this system - i7 4790k, GTX 760, 16GB Ram, 2x240GB SSD

If he still has it, it's a pretty good deal although I'd see if you can part out the video card and slap in a separately purchased GTX 970 or 280X instead.

Intel Retail Edge for Summer 2015 is coming again. Probably going to pick up a 4790K for around $185 ~ after duties and shipping.

Gf's PC: ASRock 970 EXTREME3 mobo, Asus Radeon HD 7770 V2, 625W PSU
My PC: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 mobo, Asus Radeon HD 7750 V2, 550W PSU

She wants to play Witcher 3 so I'll be adding my card to her rig and buying myself a new card. NCIX has a deal going where if I buy a GeForce GTX960 I get Witcher 3 for free so I'm saving an extra $50 if I buy one of those. My question: is a 960 at least twice as powerful as my 7750 and can my setup actually make use of it (ie not bottleneck the crap out of it). I paid $70 for the 7750 on Black Friday 2012 so I have a hard time dropping $200 on a new card if it's not going to be significantly more powerful. Also does anyone see any other potential problems with my planned changes?

TIA.

I'd probably pick up a used R9 280X + Witcher 3 code for like $30.

But speaking benchmark-wise, a GTX960 will be about 3 times faster than a 7750.

I don't know what processor you're running, but there should be no noticeable bottleneck if it's at least a FX-8320 and up. Anything lower, you'll probably see some bottlenecking due to the low IPC of AMD cores.

Just sold my witcher code for $30 and bought MKX lmao

Im waiting for broadwell to hit desktops... still using i7 920...

I always wonder how fast haswell is... but i can wait for now.

I honestly wouldn't bother waiting for Broadwell.

Either build a Haswell system now (there will probably be a bunch of 4790K flooding Craigslist in the next month due to the Intel Retail Edge promotion) or wait for Skylake/Zen next year.

edit: see later post

When ever the next Gen comes out is what I'm aiming for. I thought broadwell was next

intel pentium g3258 vs amd athlon x4 860k?

dual core vs quad?

which processor do you guys think would be better for everyday gaming?

probably just be league, csgo, and some other games nothing intense

Does this happen to you guys?

Im in a full screen game, alt-tab to something like chrome and chrome just sits on top of the game. I'm using Windows 8.1.

Back in vista, when I alt tab from a game to chrome, the desktop would be in the background. Any way of fixing this??

Upgrade to windows 7.