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Yeah not much is gonna change thru the end of this year, other than Skylake being more widely available... But it seems you were thinking of going with Haswell-E/X99 & a hexa core anyway. CPU/mobo prices are fairly static, at least until something better comes along... DDR4 has finally dropped...

Ok, but not much is gonna shake the house for $100, short of the Promedias on sale for $120... And speaker wattage is one of the most useless specs there are at face value. Like I said, for gaming or just "shaking stuff" the Promedias are probably his best choice. However, he also mentioned...

Yet another solid 2.1 option would be the Swan M10, I'd almost forgotten about them: http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16836140006 For music, they're a pretty strong value at $105. For gaming I'd probably still lean towards the Promedias tho... The Swan 0.1 is really more of...

Another solid 2.0 option would be a couple smaller bookshelves like these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00E7H8GG2/ Along with a small T-amp like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0049P6OTI/ Total would be $113... Might not be much better than the Samson powered speakers...

http://www.amazon.com/Samson-MediaOne-Active-Studio-Monitors/dp/B001CS5F40 It's a shame those Samson monitors have gone up in price by like $25 (currently $140), they blow away the Creative T20/40 mentioned if you preferred to go 2.0 over 2.1 (Promedias). The Promedias are tough to beat if...

That's what she said? :D I'm looking forward to another small (relatively) Nexus myself, too many huge flagships. The only thing I've seen that was even remotely tempting the last couple years was the Z3c, almost went for an OG Moto X over my current N5 but ultimately I'm glad to have gone...

I chose the 6700K over the 5820K despite fully intending to OC either, but I still agree with M76's basic rationale, not OC'ing skews things further in favor of the 6700K (or eventually the non-K 6700, tho they'll likely be within a couple bucks of each other). I don't know how smooth...

Not sure if that was aimed at me, but I'll definitely be OC'ing the CPU as far as it'll go, stress testing it, all that good stuff... And I'm moving up from a 2500K, if I was on aHaswell part I wouldn't have bothered. I just meant I might not push the RAM OC very far because it seems Z170...

It only happened with the stock messaging app and it got fixed years ago... Even if it hadn't, nobody uses the stock messaging app anymore since most OEM swap it for their own (except maybe Moto?) and Nexus devices now default to Hangouts... This was old too, like pre-ICS.

^-someone else~ Hi! Didn't actually expect Skylake shortages to stretch so long, looks like paper launches are coming back in style tho. :p

First it's pro boners, now head, this thread is turning up all sorts of kinks.

I bought some 2666 and called it a day; well, I bought a whole bunch of 2666, in blue cause that's how I roll, and called it a day. :cool: I'll probably try bumping it up to 2800 just for the sake of it, specially since it's a C16 kit rather than C15... But reading about your experiences...

If the system is strictly for gaming I doubt it'll matter much, then again, if it's strictly for gaming I wouldn't necessarily upgrade from Sandy.

True, I'm guessing that does disable dual channel?

I live in a US territory that just raised it's total sale tax from 7% to 13% in one fell swoop, I pay enough taxes as it is so you better believe I'm gonna factor in whatever the out-the-door cost is for me. It doesn't change the story for anyone that lives somewhere Amazon (or Newegg, or...

Also, +1 to everything GotNoRice said. There's a few very different usage cases that benefit from different approaches IMO... If you don't care about virtual surround processing for gaming and all you care about is gaming then you're fine with on board IMO. Won't be the best in SQ but then...

Huh, I had no idea XonarSwitch existed... I was actually thinking of wiring my external DAC/amp via both optical (for Dolby Headphone) and USB for easier switching (or rather, just not switching stuff around on the Xonar drivers)... That app might save me from that tho, one less cable running to...

He's right tho, it's strictly amateur boners only at my abode, I'd be lost with a pro. :D

If you get charged for tax at Amazon where you live, sure, otherwise tax + gas still makes it a wash. Just saying...

I didn't, or if you're gonna interpret it like that then I forgot the PSU as well... I was suggesting that even just *some* of extra parts are worth more than the $225-$300 difference. 12GB DDR4 and the OS are worth $200-ish, $40 for the HDD... You can easily just scavenge the thing and...

The price is very attractive, but it's not the first tower cooler to match the Noctua D15 for much less $... Phanteks' PH-TC14_PE has been going for $65 after MIR and it's pretty even with both, possibly even quieter. (I bought one ands the rebate came within a month FWIW, I was surprised) The...

I'm not terribly well versed in Xeons but the 5820K should have the standard SpeedStep logic of all Intel CPUs, it'll idle at much lower clocks etc. These days you can even fiddle with multipliers and voltages from within Windows using Intel's XTU or manufacturer supplied apps, even tho many...

I could understand not doing 6700K combos since they'll sell out regardless during current shortages, dunno why they aren't making the 6600K combos more attractive tho. After all, if you're trying to save a buck you're more likely to go for the 6600K anyway... Seems like the perfect target...

I had an Abit board (PIII), followed by two ASUS (A64, C2Q/P55), and one MSI (i5 2500K/P67)... I was relatively happy with the latter by comparison but those kinda choices made me rule out MSI for Skylake so I ended right back at ASUS. The Killer branded NIC might work fine, or it might not...

It's a $10 discount on the 6600K vs Amazon/etc, plus tax, unless you find a board that's actually priced at parity with etailers. I didn't check a ton of them but the couple that I did were $10-20 more than what they're going for online... Thus nullifying the combo discount. I would hope...

It's more like $650 for the 6700K + GTX 970 no? So the rest of the build (case, OS, RAM, PSU, HSF, and 2TB HDD) runs you $225... You are NOT gonna do better than that DIY. The DDR4, HDD, and OS alone are worth the $225; so if you want all those things and can live with a PSU/mobo that are an...

A GPU, a RAID card, and a tuner doesn't almost max out your lanes unless you've got some super fancy RAID cards and tuners... In all likelihood the latter only needs an x1 slot and the RAID card might be x4... For the GPU it won't make any difference whether it's run at x8 vs x16. Even if the...

Sure, that's what I did, only with a motherboard because there was no thermometer combo last week AFAIK. Those IR thermometers are useful if you don't have one but anyway... I had no trouble getting an RMA issued for the mobo, pretty sure others used a Premier trial in the same way as well...

As bitter as I am about the limited availability of Skylake (after two launch events mind you), there has been some availability, specially outside the US... Maybe the fact that I already have my own 6700K is softening me up on Intel a little. /shrug 6600K has been widely available tho. Denying...

Flip flopper IMO, I bought 2x HD 6950 when they were singing AMD's praises and hosting events for the community to sample Eyefinity (seems so far away now), but then they turn around and stab AMD in the back by praising Titan and labeling Nano a paper launch... Whatever will I do! My r9 290 are...

$386 6700K + IR thermometer combo on page 2: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductCombos.aspx?Item=N82E16819117559&SubCategory=343&SortField=0&PageSize=10&fromcs=0&bcmTag=0&Page=2 Newegg has added a lot more combos btw, there's even some silly ones like that $386 one w/thermometer... The page...

It has been discussed at length elsewhere but for me some of the practical differences factored in as much as the obvious ones... 6600/6700K will have an OC and IPC advantage, however mild, 5820K gets you two more cores... That's the obvious. The Skylake IMC seems friendlier towards higher...

It figures, Amazon starts doling out ETAs just under a week after I cancel my order there and place my Newegg combo order (with the intention of returning a mobo). :rolleyes: :p Oh well, at least I have the 6700K on hand already, got to gawk at a Hero for a few minutes, and got to spend a...

Not really talking about Metro/WP but regular Windows, on the desktop or a laptop.

Many X99 boards had x4 lane M.2 slots, few if any Z97 boards did AFAIK. I'm more curious about the temps I'll see with the SM951 than the performance which I'm sure will be fine.

Maybe Newegg won't combo the 6700, TigerDirect won't gouge people an extra $50 for stock they don't have, and Amazon will actually get some... :p JK I wouldn't expect them to actually ship 6700 before 6700K are readily available, then again, I wasn't expecting a papyrus launch from Intel...

Both are very much out of stock and the ETAs for the boxed one keep getting pushed back... I know you're saying the procedure is different for the OEM order but given the shortages in Murica it's more than likely it'd just result in a lengthy backorder.

Also, from what I understand they can't have it on the Play store because of Google's rules (no sub stores etc).

Clicking a direct download link in their site qualifies as a bunch of hoops? They like to direct people to download it from their app store and whatnot but they've always hosted it directly on the site too. I've downloaded it recently myself when I dismissed the app's own update notification...

Bleh, I placed my Newegg order at like 3:30pm EST on Monday... It went to the packaging stage within the hour, and it's been saying "shipped" throughout Tuesday... But all the UPS tracking number shows is that the label was created. Hopefully it actually goes out early on Wednesday or I'm not...