Even at stock, the 5820K is a beast, enabling the performance for gaming at 4K while still being able to easily handle encoding via OBS for broadcasting the goodness for all to see. With the temps I'm already seeing with air cooling, it's giving me plenty of motivation to find some better cooling and get to overclocking this bad boy.

What's the downer? It seems silly to chip down PCI-E lanes from this CPU, personally. Especially for a CPU that still sells for around $400 on the market. Until AMD can come up with a solution to compete, however, this is what we have to deal with.

Color me surprised to find an air cooler that was able to keep at least a 5820K at stock at no more than 42C, as well as packign the mounting hardware needed so I could even slap it on an LGA775 CPU later. Even came with some mounting stuff to dampen vibrations for two fans for a push-pull setup. Thankfully, just manages to not interfere with the 4-stick RAM setup on my X99 motherboard, so props for that.

One of the things that makes this motherboard so good, is a very intelligent PCI-E lane layout. Most X99 motherboards seem to have such an awful lane allocation when using a 28-lane CPU like the 5820K I currently have, wherein PCI-E slots are setup as x16/x0 or even x8/x4 if using multiple GPU's. This, on the other hand, is one of the few that will go to x8/x8 for two-GPU systems. It could do x8/x4/x4 for three-card CF, but that won't be enough for SLI. Still, given my plans to SLI/CF as soon as means allow, this board's layout and design choices are the smartest companion to my 28-lane CPU.

Only downer, was that first one I received was DoA, and the second required buying a separate, cheapo stick of RAM to boot the thing long enough to update its BIOS. Otherwise, it's been a solid choice. 4.5/5

Flawless operation, stupidly fast, and from a company that has already given me great warranty service. It's hard to go wrong, especially with this speed rating, the rated timings, and the price.

Using two of these in a boot RAID 0 on a Gigabyte X99-SLI motherboard, and getting about 1GB/second reads and ~990MB/second writes. Solid speed regardless of content, and none of the "old data" problems that plague recent Samsung SATA SSD drives.

Blazing fast card. How fast? At least every time that I'd been able to measure its GPU clocks, even at default behavior, it's boost clocking into 1,400~1598MHz on GPU core. So clearly, it's doing something right.

We have PhysX, Shadowplay available, and even by itself, it has been running every game I've thrown at it thus far at 4K resolutions. What's not to love? Simply, its nonreference design means no waterblocks available. Neither from eVGA itself, nor from EK.

Lovingly understated aesthetics. Integrated USB 3.0 headers. Excellent Cable Management. Absurd amounts of ways to customize the internals. Integrated dust covers. A great cap stone to my newest build, giving it the understated look I prefer. The hide-away SSD brackets are great. Unfortunately it came with two spots for them, but only provided one. Still, an extra is like, $8~9 to get, but figured I'd bring it up.

Perfect series for assorted DVD burning duties, as well as one of the few that can burn Xbox 360 backups, as long as you use the right media.

Purchased this becfause it was strangely less expensive to get a full copy of the game on a USB drive than the expected DVD images.

Glad I made the choice. the USB 3.0 drive makes setup and installing the OS refreshingly fast over the optical drive, and I didn't have a drive to spare for an OS install. Fresh install, drivers, and a run through of ShutUp10, and Windows 10 Pro has been a fantastic OS for this new hardware.

Simply put, after the X-Fi, this series of card is pretty much necessary for complete, and full hardware audio acceleration for both modern (OpenAL) and legacy (Directsound / Creative EAX ) games.

Since the Core3D based sound cards all have to do EAX in software, and are a net downgrade, this is pretty much the latest card that can do it in full hardware. And it's much cheaper. Still don't know how this model can do 7.1 audio output, though. Apparently it has something to do with Creative specific adapter cables.

Bought this on the cheap way back. That said, this has been an excellent gaming monitor, and has a fantastic competition worthy 10ms input lag as measured from displaylag(dot)com.

Just DVI and VGA inputs, so be aware.

Picked this display because it was literally the fastest measured 4K panel on displaylag(dot)com's database. Superfast, great colors, and one of the cheapest 4K60Hz panels.

Only caveat I must bring up is that out of the box, the monitor is configured for DP1.1... you'll need to both change it to DP1.2 in its OSD to enable 4K60Hz support (as well as use its supplied displayport cable), but also make sure to update your resolution choice in your display drivers to ensure you're using 4K and 60Hz rate. After that, you're golden.

So it does take some manual tuning first, but if you can afford this display, it would be foolish to pass up.