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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Haha, no friends there eh? If it makes you feel better I found one of their articles backing up almost everything you said about the build, and going with the 4790 over the 5820. I appreciate all the help man, really. It is a lot of time out only to get 1000 questions and essentially no...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Ok fair enough. Looks like the cheapest I can get the Maximus board is going to be about $240 CD. Compared to about $195 for Gigabyte and MSI, and $160 for the Z97-A. I am not sure if I want to start venturing into the mid 200's or not for a few more SATA ports. Seems to me the sweet spot...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Hey, Well I actually really like that Asus board, in fact Asus was my first choice. I could probably make do with that board, however I need more than 4 SATA ports. I need at least 6 for sure. I also like the greater number of USB 3.0 ports on the other boards, but it is not a huge deal...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    *Edit* Thanks man. Done all the purchasing except for the motherboard. Been doing some research on best bang for your buck mobo's. I found the following two get the highest ratings. I might jump ship and get a non asus board. What do you think of these two: - Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Hey, My 650D does not have the internal connection, but I have purchased one if needed. I figured one day I may need it so its been kicking around for a year or two. So for build I would be keeping the following parts: - PSU: Antec TP-750W - SSD: Samsung Evo 500GB - HDD: Seagate...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Woops. Bit if dyslexia there. Yes sorry. Z97. The 4790K
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Hey Dangman, Fair enough, I see where you are coming from. However, in fairness I could go for a decent $250 x99 mobo, and I could maybe even get some slightly cheaper RAM. I know, not a huge difference, but I could likely cut cost on both builds. I must confess I have put a lot more time...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Hey Dangman, Thanks again. You have some good information there. I am going to read that article ASAP. I will include a link to possible builds on both fronts. It turns out the cost difference is not that much at all, but I will get 32GB of ram vs 16GB with the 5820K. My only issue if I go...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Hey Dangman, Thanks for all the information, that is great. I have done some build comparisons and to be honest, the build cost is not going to be a lot different. Maybe $300 tops. This is due to the fact that I would probably go with 32GB of RAM, and a higher end motherboard if I went with...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Hey there, Thanks for all of the information, that is really great. You brought up a lot of points that I have gone over in my head. I am just thinking, would the x99 build be more "futureproof" shall we say? There is something that just burns me deep down inside building a rig on DDR3 now...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    Well that answer is simple, I do not need it. In fact I do not "need" to upgrade at all really. It is a want. I have had my current system for 5 years and I wanted to upgrade. My reasoning for going with the 2011v3 is that it is current, and it supports DDR4. I figure if you are going to...
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    Upgrade advice needed.

    So I am finally looking to upgrade. More of a want than a need, my old rig still does pretty well. The following was what I was going to upgrade too, but then I started to think too hard. - Intel Core i7-5820K - Gigabyte GA-X99-UD4 - 4x4GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4/2400 - Cooler...
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    Isight Not Working (Help!)

    Recently picked up a 2009 Macbook Pro 13" Aluminum body. There is any issue with the built in camera. When I try to use any camera app, the green light comes on and the circle starts spinning like the camera is going to come on, but it never does. The camera shows up in the system info...
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    BIOS Update Fail (Help Needed)

    Thanks for the all the help guys. Given the age and quality of this laptop, I am likely going to scrap it. Thanks HP. I second the last posters comments, I am never going to flash from windows again. What a mistake
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    BIOS Update Fail (Help Needed)

    I doubt this is video card related. It literally happened first boot after the bios flash and has been the case ever since
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