The higher the lightboost % the brighter the screen, so just set it at 100%. You do eliminate more motion blur with 10% LB but it's dim as fuck.

You get less motion blur with 10% lightboost but it may not be as noticeable as you think. It's your call whether a dimmer screen is worth it or not, but the only real fix is dim your room to make it seem like the monitor is brighter. The colours can be fixed by either manually calibrating it through nvidia control panel or using an icc profile. I would start by installing an icc profile and if you still see inaccurate colours then you should manually correct it.
You can find some icc profiles for the asus here: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1730425

Fox you should really consider overclocking the CPU.

If you really don't want to go through the risks of oc'ing then buy an aftermarket cooler (like Swifttech H220) and buy this motherboard: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-z77agd65

Then you literally just have to press the "oc genie" button on your motherboard and it will automatically overclock your cpu to a decent and safe ghz, guaranteed.

The jump from non-lightboost to lightboost was a bigger jump than from 60hz to 120hz for me.

You can find other people's icc profiles here:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1730425

For the best result I recommend not touching the colour temperatures and letting the icc profiles do the work, as they were generated with colorimeters. The colours look like shit with lightboost on regardless of what icc profiles I use though, so whenever I'm not playing tf2 I switch back to 144hz.

Just try all of them and see which one looks better on your monitor.

No-- be her partner, not her slave.

Nzxt Switch 810 is amazing.

Just a btw for you tf.tv kids, having acne is completely normal in middle school and is usually the result of puberty, and your hormones getting out of whack. Sometimes, a bit of bullying in middle school can completely effect ones personality in high school, or have permanent effects on ones life. Hygiene is not the only cause of acne. This is obviously a given, but this is tf.tv so... sigh..

#64, People disliked you because you smelled bad? That's completely reasonable, and i wouldn't consider it reasons derived from "appearance and superficial stances". I suppose I'll say sorry that you suffered from something that's completely out of your control, but I would be lying. You probably don't want my pity anyways. I hate the way you handled the situation, even though you were probably just extremely stressed and took a lot of shit from people, that one person was just being honest and didn't deserve that at all. It was probably a tough situation for everyone, including the people that had to sit beside you. You had the worse part of the situation, of course.

The higher the wattage does not mean the higher the quality of the PSU. Wattage is literally meaningless in terms of actually quality.
To get the best out of your PSU in terms of efficiency, it's best to use up to and around 60% load (Varies). PSUs run less efficiently at low load and at extremely high load.

And there are many high quality 600~ watt 80 Plus Gold/Platinum PSUs.

But assuming his setup uses around 300-400 Watts, the 750W psu is definitely worth it. Just dont get like a 1k Watt psu.. ._. There is a limit on how much is too much.

Go for a Nvidia card if you're going to get a monitor that has lightboost, and are planning to take advantage in lightboost technology. (Hint: You should..)
500W PSU is enough, if you plan on getting a new card in the future, please don't get a second 550 ti for sli. That's just a terrible option. Any other form of upgrade, like a better single GPU or whatever, the 500W PSU can handle.

Also, your friend may be right on the FX-8350 being a better option than the i5 3570k. Teksyndicate did a benchmark comparing both CPUs with the AMD computer containing a windows hotfix that possibly helps quite a bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4et7kDGSRfc

That video actually brought up a lot of attention, as i5 3570k has been assumed the better CPU for a very long time. Linustechtips and a few other reviewers will be doing another benchmark test / comparison soon because of that vid.

I'm still pretty skeptical though on which is the better buy though. If you want the upgrade immediately, get the i5 to be safe.

If you mean asus as in their discontinued 120hz monitors, they were basically XL2420T with colors that aren't complete shit (only due to poor factory calibration). BenQ's are more mass produced though, but they also have more features. But those were the old monitors.

The 2 best monitors to get right now is Asus VG248QE, and BenQ XL2411T. Both of them has height adjust, can be flipped to portrait mode, etc. I'd get the Asus because it has this new feature that allows to you enable a custom crosshair overlay. BenQ has black equalizer though, which I personally find useless.

They both use the same panel, offers 144hz, and has lightboost. Both will retail for $300. The BenQ is being advertised as 120hz mainly because it's already a more established standard, but it is in-fact 144hz capable.

If you're wondering whether a case will support your MB or not, just count the PCIe slots on your MB and see if the case has enough PCIe slots.

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The cheapest solution would probably be to get a capture card.

Just get the case that looks the coolest.
Almost all ATX cases you find will support your configuration + the case you choose probably won't add any extra "performance".
If I were you I'd buy a better CPU cooler. The one you chose is great for the price, but performance wise, it'd be better to spend more on a better cpu cooler, and less on the case.

Rogers stopped throttling quite a while ago.
If you feel you're throttled you're probably just confused or a family member is probably torrenting.

I'd wait for this to come out:
http://pcmonitors.info/asus/another-144hz-model-the-asus-vg248qe