After reading some of the European responses to this , I ' d hold off on using the word nickers <| sep |> The best mod combinations are x 3 for tac and x 3 for engsci . However in practice any combination of and with works fine and is within a few % of any other combo of the same . Also questions like this really belong over in rstobuilds <| sep |> Recently I saw a video about RAM speed and gaming performance , and the overall conclusion was that above 2400 MHz , it doesn ' t really make a difference . The motherboard is fine , I read some stuff about its flimsy IO shield so when I bought my new Z 170 mobo , I went with the MSI Krait one . I don ' t know if a 1070 is strong enough to take advantage of the 144 Hz panel . You will definitely have to turn settings down in order to make any use of that monitor . oP 0 wRVjQh 5 U I would recommend a cheaper 1080 p 144 Hz or a 1440 p 60 Hz . Maybe cough up some more dough for a 1440 p 144 Hz with Gsync .