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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    I went ahead and returned the P8Z68-V LE and went with the P8Z68-V/GEN3. Got everything connected correctly but the first 2 PCI-E slots don't work with any video cards. For some reason only the bottom black slot works, which wouldn't be ideal to use the Radeon HD 7970 in anyway, because the...
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    About to purchase. Any Advice

    Also $160 at Tigerdirect for 24 hours.
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    New PC Build

    I'd grab the Crucial M4 128gb from TigerDirect, as Cmustang87 suggested ASAP as I doubt it'll go lower than that, and I think it's a 24 hour exclusive deal
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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    After a lot of thinking, I managed to return the i5 2500 for the 2500k. Decided I might want to overclock in the future with it. Is the P8Z68 V-LE good enough for overclocking the 2500k to 4.4-4.5ghz? I don't plan on going past that if I do end up overclocking, and already have the motherboard...
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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    Thanks. Another question, do you NEED a CPU that supports PCI-E 3.0 in order for the GPU to use PCI-E 3.0? Would it work with an i5 2500 as long as you have a PCI-E 3.0 compatible motherboard? I'm guessing it wouldn't work without a PCI-E 3.0 CPU (such as an Ivy Bridge), but just making sure as...
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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    Thanks, do you think there will be any improvements in performance for the Radeon HD 7970 with PCI-E 3.0 in the future (with driver updates, new games, etc.)? Wondering if I'd be better off returning the ASUS P8Z68-V LE for a different motherboard in case PCI-E 3.0 shows performance increase for...
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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    So would you say there'd be zero perfomance increase? I searched around a bit and read that it improves performance in GPU computing, but doesn't have much of an increase in games.
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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    Might be a bit late to ask this, but would there be any performance loss using the Radeon HD 7970 in a PCI-E 2.0 slot? I probably should've looked into that while choosing a motherboard, don't know if it was a mistake to get one with only PCI-E 2.0.
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    Best wireless mouse

    I understand that, I was saying maybe they could've made it so that it used 2 AA batteries instead of just 1 AA battery. But maybe the way they designed it made it so that it wasn't possible to add an extra battery slot or something? I dunno. Either way, it doesn't bother me.. just an...
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    Best wireless mouse

    People were really complaining about the battery life for the G700? It's really not bad, I have a Logitech G7 and the battery life for it was even worse, though the battery was a little easier to swap out than the G700. If you're buying a high performance wireless mouse, I think the battery life...
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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    Already ordered everything so that's not really an option for me anymore, I won't be overclocking or reselling it anyway so I don't think there's a point to get the unlocked version for me. I went with 8gb ram. I don't think I'll need 16gb anytime soon, plus if I got more ram + a case it'd go...
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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    I've ordered everything so I should have it all in a few days, but I've actually decided to look into getting a new case (kind of getting tired of my CM690). Managed to get lucky with the Gigabyte 7970, Newegg had it in stock for a couple minutes today. I'm interested in the Fractal Design Arc...
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    7970 Purchasing Thread

    Managed to order a Gigabyte 7970 a few minutes ago from newegg (they also had the Diamond back in stock for a few minutes). I hope my order doesn't get backordered though, it went out of stock right after I ordered.
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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    Thanks for the help. Yeah I think I can afford getting 16gb ram if it's worth it over 8gb. Is that motherboard alright? I saw some user reviews on newegg about it having issues accepting more than 8gb ram, but I'm not sure if that's a common problem or not. I don't really need many features on a...
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    New PC gaming build. Suggestions would be appreciated.

    1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Mostly gaming and web browsing. I would like to max out newer games at 1920x1200 with this build. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? About $1,500, I use shop-runner so I should be able to get free...
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