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Haven't had a build "fail" since I had a Pentium II rig die on me.... My last setup had a Corsair TX650 PSU + Antec case from 2008 that I slapped a i7-875K + Asus P7P55D build into in 2010. However, after I donated the original Radeon 5850 to a now-ex-girlfriend It had a GTX560ti 448 core ...

I finally bumped the de-lidded i7-4770K I bought off a friend cheap up to 4.4ghz the other night.  I know how you feel! Tops out at 71 degrees on the hottest core reading with Prime95 with the biggest heat generating run. BF1 for a few hours never goes above 63 with my smaller Noctua air cooling.  B...

Yeah, like others have said, if you can wait until Ryzen benchmarks/pricing info comes out that would be best.

Several of your workflows look heavily threaded so being able to get a solid 8 core / 16 thread chip for far less than $1000 would be ideal.

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Im the one confused. I thought Bristol and Summit were both Zen. Only read the Summit/performance desktop part.

Yeah, Raven Ridge is the Zen based APU due after Summit Ridge (they're launching pure CPU first)

I have to say, playing this on Vulkan with blistering frame rates on Ultra was a fantastic experience. The difficulty of Hurt Me Plenty was mostly pretty easy except for about 3 rooms that kicked my butt. Most bosses required 1-2 deaths to understand the best way to avoid their mechanics... a great ...

I have two pairs of JVC HX-RA900 headphones that I have loved for years now (I game with one set at home, and use the other to block out work noise with my music). Just a set of solidly built over-the-ear headphones that help block out a hefty amount of ambient noise. Also, for only $60 on Amazon, t...