Check my other post: http://teamfortress.tv/forum/thread/15155-amd-announces-free-sync/

You don't know how g-sync or free-sync work, see my reply above.

Just want to clarify what g-sync and free-sync actually do, going to assume 60hz for everything since that's the worst case scenario and where this technology helps the most.
Currently: Your screen refreshes every 16ms. At 60fps, you get a new frame every 16ms. However, these frames don't come at the same time. In the worst case, your screen refreshes, then the monitor receives the new frame in the next millisecond. In this case, there is 15ms before your new input is shown on screen and the game will feel very laggy. 15ms is a worst case scenario, but the same applies (even if the effect isn't as bad) all the way down to 1ms. The only time you don't have any stuttering or lag is when your screen refreshes the exact instant it receives a new frame, which is a very rare situation. Constant 60fps can be hard to maintain even for a lot of TF2 players and when the frame rate varies from 60fps, this 15ms delay can become much much worse as sometimes multiple screen refreshes can go by without a new frame which manifests as a large stutter.
The above all assumes your frame rate is less than your refresh rate. If the frame rate is higher than your refresh rate, e.g. 90fps, the screen will attempt to draw two frames on the screen at the same time resulting in tearing like in the picture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Tearing_%28simulated%29.jpg

Some games tend to tear more than others and in certain areas, e.g. when I had a 60hz monitor and ran TF2 at 133fps, I had to look hard to see the tearing, but in Assassin's Creed IV, in the Abstergo centre at ~40fps on a 120hz screen I get massive tearing. However, tearing is a thing that most people have gotten used to over time.
With (G|Free)-sync: Your screen refreshes whenever you receive a new frame. This means that every situation involving lag that I mentioned in the above paragraph is gone, every single new frame is shown on screen the instant after it's drawn, improving input lag in all cases except the case I mentioned above. Tearing is no longer a problem as the screen cannot refresh with two frames as each frame has already been drawn on the screen. Literally the only situation where this technology is not useful is the incredibly rare scenario where your frame rate is absolutely constant and perfectly synchronised with your refresh rate. All this results in a perfectly smooth game, even at lower FPS.
What (G|Free)-sync can't do: The definition of smooth in the previous sentence isn't quite accurate however. Even though each frame at ~30fps will be drawn perfectly with no stuttering, you will still have ~33ms delay between frames which will mean your inputs will feel delayed and the game will still feel like a slideshow, just a slideshow running perfectly smoothly without stuttering or tearing.

CES is more than I expected already and the first day isn't even over.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7641/amd-demonstrates-freesync-free-gsync-alternative-at-ces-2014

Yes you read that title right. Expensive but amazing.

http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/CES-2014-ASUS-ROG-SWIFT-PG278Q-120-Hz-G-Sync

i49 was the grand finale for a good few of our people at VTV, most of our best casters are either taking a break or have left the scene altogether. Along with that, I personally can't stream any more and Byte played this season so he couldn't cast. We have had reasonable coverage of ETF2L Highlander Season 5 mostly thanks to SuddenlyStarMia's efforts in organising those casts. I don't know what our plans for Season 17 are yet, so stay tuned to find out.

be my guest, take your friends with you

You can't understand why people might be upset and how you just embarrassed the competitive TF2 community in front of 10,000 people so you resort to shitposting?

how about the people you impersonated?

Impersonating someone in front of 10k viewers is a pretty shitty thing to do, especially if you give a bad impression

I don't know if Rust is very CPU intensive or not, but Lin would be better off upgrading GPU, the 7850 isn't that amazing. The CPU and motherboard aren't that great sure, but they're good enough. Bear in mind that you might need to upgrade to a 500W PSU if you get a more powerful graphics card. You could also upgrade to an FX8320 or FX8350 without upgrading the motherboard for an above adequate CPU.

This isn't really the place to ask about BF4. Either way, the game is bugged as shit still, there should be a large patch incoming since DICE moved everyone they have to bugfixing the game so chances are they already know about this if it is a game issue. If it isn't you'll likely have to look elsewhere.

The only way I could see of dropping that below $800 is to drop the 4670k. It seems the $199 deal on the 4670k is done now anyway. You generally won't fit a 4670k into an $800 budget, but if you were to go down t a 4670 or a 4570 you could drop the cooler and use a H87 chipset motherboard which would save you a fair amount of money. One thing I notice you don't have is an SSD. Even in an $800 budget an SSD will make a hell of a big difference. I'd recommend just saving a bit longer, just a little bit more money invested here would get you quite a lot more benefits, particularly the 4670k and SSD.

As for your overclocking question, getting 4Ghz out of a 4670k won't be hard at all, it turbos up to 3.8Ghz automatically and this is stable and even the stock cooler can manage the temperatures. Unless you got an unrealistically bad 4670k, 4Ghz would be stable at the same voltage (or maybe a 0.025v increase or so) and the temperatures wouldn't increase too much. As for getting 4.2Ghz out of one, you'd need better cooling to be able to do so comfortably. The NH-L9i is pushing it a bit even for 4Ghz, it's really designed for low heat output small form factor PCs. You can probably find better cooling around the $50 mark quite easily, have a look at some benchmarks.

Glorious, cu@i52

Any ideas on how to work sticky accuracy in yet?