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Love this mouse. Got it at Best Buy during Black Friday 2014, where it was $79.99 bundled with a $50 Steam Wallet Card. Effectively making the mouse $29.99 since I can always use Steam credit. Have yet to see a deal that matches that.

Could be they just don't want stir the nest again. Arkham Knight PC is still broken in many ways.

Can usually find cheaper on black friday. Two years ago every big retailer had a year of PS+ for $29.

Thanks for the link, ordered one from Newegg with the Amex $25 and 1% from ebates. Had been planning to wait until Pascal but my 680 is starting to show its age and I can still sell it for a decent return. Hard to pass up this 980ti for this price.

Pre-orders are up on Newegg. 512: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147467&cm_re=samsung_950_pro-_-20-147-467-_-Product 256: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147466&cm_re=samsung_950_pro-_-20-147-466-_-Product

The Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 and Gaming GT are pretty much identical in construction. The GT has more phases and a better power system, but I'd imagine most people would never even notice. It has a slightly nicer box and braided cables. Not sure if the problem I had was a faulty CPU or a bad...

FWIW, I originally ordered the Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 and it kept crashing on me. Random freezes. Sent it and the 6700K back to Newegg as it was a combo. Since the 6700K was out of stock when they processed the exchange the system automatically refunded me the full amount. So I had a choice ...

As an update to this sad upgrade, I got a pair of G.Skill 3200 sticks to try out tonight, and the freezing issue persisted. Installed them, cleared CMOS, booted into bios, and was just changing a setting when the board froze again. Booted into Windows, froze within five minutes. Boxed both the...

I just enabled XMP as a troubleshooting measure. Figured why not push the memory to see if it fails faster, given that the system seems to freeze randomly otherwise. And with XMP enabled it wouldn't boot, even with dram voltage at 1.35 to spec, and system agent and VCCIO at the recommended bumps...

Thanks for the suggestion ... I did try clearing the CMOS but the problem persists. Experienced my first freeze in the BIOS screen late last night and again today. And now, no matter what dram/system agent/VCCIO voltage I set, my system will eventually freeze. Might take 10 minutes or 3 hours...

Hah, I tried to register my Z170 Gaming 7, and the form won't accept my "Check Number" ... I put it in, and it keeps asking me for a four digit number. I type ANY four digit number, and it won't accept it. Seriously guys, don't start a contest where your entry form is broken. Kind of sums up my...

I tried running each stick of the Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15R kit individually, and while occasionally they can run ~two hours at stock voltages and speeds before freezing Windows, sometimes my system freezes within a minute of booting. This specific ram is listed as compatible on the...

Ran Memtest from USB, and my system froze in the middle of the first test. Didn't get an error, just a full freeze. Hopefully the new G.Skill ram arriving Monday will solve all this.

Actually, I wasn't fine even before using XMP. The Corsair kit is unstable at stock clocks and stock volts, no overclocking at all, that's the second line in my post. When I activate the XMP profile the ram fails on boot. When I run at stock, it freezes intermittently anywhere from 2-10 minutes...

I don't mind ram being slightly lower than their rated overclock, it's when the ram can't even run stably at stock speed and voltage (looking at these Corsairs) that I start to worry.

Thanks for the replies. I actually just RMA'd the Corsair ram and ordered a set of G.Skill Ripjaws V 16GB 3200. Figured that if I'm having freezes at stock voltage and speed, there's more than likely something wrong with the ram. The Gigabyte and i7 6700K seem great otherwise. Even though the...

So I just upgraded my motherboard (Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7), CPU (Core i7 6700K) and Memory (CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB 2x8GB DDR4 3000). I've been experiencing freezes at stock speeds. When I build a new PC I always just install the components and leave everything at default just to make...

I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 Pro on my old x58 system, and it was a full retail copy. Swapping my motherboard to my new Z170/6700K triggered the activation system so I have to reactivate. Called Windows support and was run around for over an hour as the phone tech clearly had no...

So tempted to buy it. Already finished it on PS4 and bought the season pass (only played the first installment), but with my new PC I'd like to play again on a big boy system. But the backlog is so long ...

Thanks, ordered one. At worst it's a distraction for my toddler so he doesn't break my iPhone.

Glad it could help. I saw the Amazon pre-order tracker ping me too, nice that they're properly at $350. I'd been looking to get the Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 so that it was part of a bundle for $30 off at Newegg was fine by me. Kind of assumed they'd be doing bundles after they did the same with...

Sign up for an alert here: http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/processors/intel/ I used this to order last week, and got another ping when the processors were available today. Find this one far more reliable than signing up for auto-notify via Amazon and Newegg (I never even get an email from...

6700K bundles are back in stock at newegg.

My Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 and 6700K should be delivered tomorrow from Newegg, but my ram hasn't shipped yet. Ordered both at the same time. :/

Mine is shipping from Baldwin Park, California. I'm in San Francisco so hopefully it doesn't take long. But can't do anything until my ram arrives anyway, and that's not shipped yet.

I ordered the Gigabyte Gaming 7 and the 6700K right when the orders opened, with just enough time to buy Premier first, and mine's already shipped. Due for delivery Tuesday. Of course, my ram is stuck in packaging so I won't be able to build until it arrives anyway.

I signed up for three months of Premier for $20. Figured if anything remotely goes wrong, it's good to have that backup. Plus it includes rush processing and 3-day which I also used for the ram and some other bits and pieces. I did the same thing earlier this year (signing up for short-term...

I put a stock alert on the i7 6700K for Newegg via nowinstock.net ... the sku was already listed. I used this site for a lot of stuff that's hard to find. Got a text message and was able to order fast. Maybe try that site for the next time they come in stock. Also works for Amazon (assuming...

I went with the Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 ... wanted the Alpine Ridge controller and that's the only one that had it. Has everything else I want, but have never bought a Gigabyte board before. Snakebitten by ASUS and the MSI only has Killer NICs, which I don't want (also the MSI M7 doesn't fit a...

I'm probably getting the Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 ... I've really been interested in the MSI Xpower Titanium, but it won't fit my Noctua D15 without blocking the top PCIE slot. Same with the Gigabyte G1 and the Gaming 5 ... the top slot is blocked. So the Gaming 7 seems to be the compatibility...

If it helps, I've ordered from ShopBLT in the past and they've been solid. Had to call to tweak an order and got an actual human being who helped.

Someone recently hit 7.0Ghz on the 6700K. http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-hits-nearly-7ghz/

Looks like everything you want is on the Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7. Which is on sale at Newegg right now, paired with 16GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 ram, in a bundle for $50 off ... $310 total. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.2463122

The Killer NIC is the one thing holding me back on this board. I had a very old Killer NIC add-on card that seemed like snake oil that I eventually ditched, and since then they've changed hands and seem like little more than a software layer. Would prefer to go with Intel, but it doesn't seem...

I really wish the EVGA Z170 FTW had USB 3.1 on the board ... it's perfect for me otherwise. Have had great experiences with EVGA tech support with their video cards and my current EVGA x58 motherboard has been flawless going on seven years. Looking at the Z170 Classified but it's totally...

The Asus Z170 Deluxe has pretty much exactly what I'm looking for. Plenty of USB 3.1 ports, solid WiFi ... but I'm just snakebitten with Asus. Have had two Asus routers fail recently and their customer support was beyond awful. Ended up throwing them both away rather than deal with their...

The strange thing that the MSI Z170 Xpower is missing is the USB 3.1 type C, the small reversible connector. It's the only one of the higher-end boards missing it, for whatever reason. Thing is, I don't know how often I'd ever really need to use the type C in back of my desktop ... when I...

I can live without the Thunderbolt, just trying to consider everything. Ultimately I tend to lean toward the OC boards figuring they have better components to be stable for a long time. Always an educated crap shoot. Been really interested in the MSI Z170 XPower but also looking at their M7.

I have been on the same evga x58 board (rev 1.0, so I can't use a Xeon without a mod) for almost 7 years. But before that I had Asus boards with capacitor whine and multiple issues. Dealt with them in an RMA about 12 years ago that made me pull my hair out. Would have considered them again...

How important do you think having the actual Alpine Ridge chipset is to full USB 3.1 spec coverage? Will these third-party chipsets cover all the things like video and thunderbolt or should we be sticking to the official Intel chipset? Just wondering as I'm weighing all options for a board...