God Speed , OP ! <| sep |> I ' m too busy worrying about other humans . <| sep |> Crappy but working webstream <| sep |> Neither am I <| sep |> Similar experience , my intuition just told me it was coming after Rakuyo and Hajrudin dupes . Maybe it was also my boner , who knows <| sep |>#### My rationale for the chosen products part 1 ## CPU Solid choice , however the 6800 K is certainly worth a lookcpubx 80671 i 76800 k . It ' s cheaper because it got less PCIe lanes . Which is probably not an issue at all . So the only difference between the 6800 K 6850 K , 94189 is the amount of PCIe lanes . You get 28 with the 6800 K compared to 40 with the 6850 K . Ow and ignore the clock speed difference , you should overclock both of these CPUs and hit roughly the same speed in most cases . ~ 4 . 2 to 4 . 5 GHz is the often reached speeds . Which is still more than enough even for an SLI setup . Which would use 16 lanes 8 x 8 x for the two GPUs 4 lanes for the NVMe SSD . Meaning 20 used , so still 8 lanes left for other expansion cards or storage . Performance wise , the difference between 8 x 8 x 16 x 16 x for SLI is almost not visiblerctaLgK 5 stA . I ' ll talk more about SLI later ! But here you can clearly see that the PCIe lanes really don ' t impact performance . Ow and . something a lot of people sometime forget . The X 99 chipset also got PCIe lanesv 3 , which is often used for storage , but can be used for a lot of things and the manufacturers Asus , MSI , Gigabyte , AsRock , etc . are able to design their motherboards any way they see fit . ## CPU Cooler hydroh 100 iv 2 cpucoolerreview ? page 0 Very solid and simple AllInOne liquid cooler from Corsair . They ' re the leaders in the AIO market and do also offer some very good performing options . I would recommend to not use the stock fans that are not really that great pretty loud , without really pushing the temperatures down while doing so . So I ' ve included the extra fans , where you would grab 2 off for this radiator . Push or pull don ' t matter much , if you want to see the fans , you have to go in a push mode when placing the radiator in the top of the case . This will push the air out of the case . ## Motherboard x 99 iilga 20113 motherboardreview I never suggest to spend too much money on a motherboard . I just really never see the point at this . You never really gain something that I found worth $ 100200 . The Asus X 99 A II is an absolutely beast of a motherboard , especially considering the relative low price . But if you want to see how it stacks up , spec wise compared to some other Asus motherboards . Including the Deluxe II , here is a great article with some sales talk , of coursenewasusx 99 motherboardshouldibuy that looks at 4 popular Asus X 99 motherboards . Specification Comparison So please consider the X 99 A II , you won ' t need anything from the Deluxe I am certain . If you need WiFi Bluetooth 4 . 0 , then get this c a rdwirelessnetworkcardgcwb 867 di . ## Memory RAM is RAM , more expensive ram with equal speeds timings means it ' s not going to perform any better at all . I couldn ' t keep the Dominators , because the AIO Corsair H 100 i v 2 would be blocked . I did however went down a bit in terms of the speed . Because , from 2666 MHz you don ' t really see much of a performance gains anymore in games editing . ddr 4 memory 2133 vs 26663200 mhz 8 gbvs 16 gb ? page 1 are benchmarks to proof that it really doesn ' t make a difference in gaming . If you don ' t want to look at it , here is their conclusion Overall , we ' ve found that DDR 42666 memory is definitely the optimal choice in terms of performance and value You would just waste $ 50 pretty much by going for the 3333 MHz speed kit . In editing , it also makes about the same performance differences , very minimal in most cases . ## Storage 960 prossdreview Pretty much the fastest SSD on the market . It ' s a monster ! It beats the 950 PRO pretty hard and it ' s only about $ 30 more expensive . Well worth it ! I can ' t add anything else . I mean , aside from more storage ? You can get 4 TB for $ 100 , 900 RPMSATAIII 6 Gbs 35 InternalHardDriveST 4000 DM 000 MicroCenter . Or if you want a faster HDD for $ 120 , 200 RPMSATAIII 6 Gbs 35 D e s ktopInternalHardDriveHDWE 140 XZSTA you ' re still only paying $ 25 $ 30 per terabyte of storage . ## Video Card Review video 7 ALjJtYuWC 8 25 Games benched ! Includes some hard rock music m Review writtengeforcegtx 1080 ftwgamingacx 3 fastfuriousindex . html So other people did mention that you should buy the GPU directly from EVGA . Because some of their cards had temperature failures . They ' ve fixed this with a BIOS update thermal pads . You could also simply buy a card from Amazon , Newegg or BH . But chances are high that they still run the old BIOS have no thermal pads applied . Which could thus create thermal issues . Now you can get thermal pads the BIOS for free from EVGA here . Explaining the issue how to apply the thermal padsURyG 1 OP 8 p 8 It 197 s Simple and short video . EVGA Thermal issue the conclusionmpxQaSjQclo Very long video ~~ I am listening to it right now for you ~~ Conclusion of that video the thermals are not killing the EVGA cards . It ' s very likely a bad batch of capacitors that survived testing and thus managed to find it ' s way on GPUs . Current reports is that 2 % of . EVGA 1000 series cards came back to them as defect . Which is not extremely low , but certainly not extremely high either . 150 . They rather sit under the 1 % of course , but . we don ' t know how many cards got this issue . So . okay , this may scare you ? If so , that ' s perfectly normal . I however can still suggest EVGA because of their amazing customer support . If you have any issue , you can call email EVGA 247 . If you still don ' t feel comfortable with going for the EVGA card . You could get the Asus Strixgeforcegtx 10808 g b r o g strixvideocardrogstrixgtx 1080 a 8 ggaming which is also a chunk cheaper ! And considered one of the best GTX 1080 s on the market . It ' s just that the Asus support is not . great . To put it midly ! So if something happens with the card , I would recommend to try and contact Asus . If you didn ' t break your phone or PC after doing so , you probably just want to go to the retailer to get it sorted out . Often much better ! I also promised to talk about SLI ! So here we go . SLI GTX 1080 s don ' t scale extremely well as uhaekuh said . Meaning that when you add a second GTX 1080 , you won ' t get double the FPS in most games . So let ' s delve into this a little bit . WTF is going on with . SLI ? A 91 BPapLK 38 t 16 s Let ' s quickly mention this , SLI is changing . maybe for the better . But it may be abit complex and complicated . So this is a good video to look back at , if you later want to SLI . SLI CPU lane scalingUnS 0 xWtoRzk This video compares the 28 lane vs the 40 lane CPUs . The previous generation CPUs , but this result is going to be very relative for the 6800 K vs 6850 K . GTX 1080 SLI scalingi 0 Ok 8 I 7 EBk