If it comes to that, I'll deshround and use some case fans and ducts. Thanks for the tips

I feel you on the TN panel, but no IPS has anything close to DYAC (except the pg27aqn, but that's like 500 bucks more which is the cost of a nice 4k monitor anyway). I was also considering the xg2431, but the room gets pretty bright and I didn't think it would cut it.

As far as coolers, I guess I could get a 240mm AIO but from what I have seen the performance difference isn't more than a few degrees, plus my last AIO had the pump die after a few years which kind of put me off water cooling.

Could definitely shell out a bit more for the PSU but I figured a ~50 watt buffer was fine. You're probably right on this one

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/nz2wwc

Any comments?

I know the motherboard is a bit questionable, but it's so cheap that as long as it just supports a stable overclock in TF2/CS I don't really care. The other boards are so much more expensive that I might as well upgrade my CPU instead of bothering to overclock at all.

This thread made me realize I need a new PC. Some of these are basically triple the frames of my 4770k

finance

That looks good setsul, thanks for the advice. I'll take a closer look at case options.

All memes aside its awful

Like applesauce on porkchops, or mernice chicken

I don't see anyone tossing ham cubes and cheese into their fruit salads

The PC will mostly be used for CS:GO, DOTA 2, and planet coaster @1080p 144hz, but it will also be used to record and edit footage from demos. Performance in game is the priority

We have HDDs and only need a ~120GB SSD for the OS and some games/software. We have a copy of windows. We also would like a case recommendation; form factor doesn't matter

The budget is $700

If it possible to build a PC that can stream @720p 60FPS while meeting the above requirements for $950 that would be nice, but if not, we'll just count out streaming

We do not want to overclock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGczQCNSUls

someone took the time to make this video and post it to my profile

thanks wasnt aware of these, I dont play much

admittedly though Im a bit confused why its literally been like 6 VA servers and nothing else

Every casual game I get put into sits on "parsing game info" for a minute, and when I finally connect to the server its pretty laggy, sometimes to the point where it says I have lost connection. Apparently this has been a problem shared by everyone in the servers

Has anyone else been having this problem or figured out whats going on?

edit: joined an LA server and it was fine, maybe VA only problem?

basically scorch shot is only better when you are jiggle peeking

make sure its not a text file

who are the "pro gamers" this group "started with"