If gaming, Skylake with GeForce or Radeon GPUs. Working, Intel Xeon or i7-5960X with Quadro or Firepro GPUs.

Does the side Radeon logo glow?

Ohhh. Hope I can sell my second rig (Intel Xeon 8-Core GTX 970 SLI) to buy RX 480 for my freesync monitor. I wish Asus can come up with white ref cooler RX 480 just like my current Asus GTX 970 Turbo OC. Kinda like maintaining that white aesthetics.

I just found out why G-sync monitor expensive. I thought because of branding only. So monitor manufacture actually have to pay Nvidia for the G-sync module they use in the monitors. Hmm I guess when you're almost dominant, can charge anything.

Weak in Malaysia? I though they were weak globally before this. But maybe their Polaris will change things. Read that for US RX 480 debut this 29th, AMD has 25X the stock size of Nvidia's GTX 1080 launch. Anyway, I need to get AMD card soon. Have to try out my monitor freesync.

You're right there. Don't see much of freesync monitor being mention around. Its G-sync, g-sync, g-sync. Its that obscure, I bought Samsung U28590D UHD monitor early this year. I think I saw that AMD Freesync logo on the box but didnt' give two hoots about it and bought GTX 970 (which then went from single to SLI within a week+). Now only my sel sel otak berhubung and realized I have a freesync 4K monitor. Going to team red next.

Its best that you go to place like low yatt and see what you prefer. Some people prefer 2K 144 Hz monitor than 4K 60 Hz monitor. Some can live with 60 hz, some can't live with 60 hz. Some can see 4K, some say 2K and 4K looks the same. But the R9 290 will struggle at 2K 144 Hz or 4K 60 Hz.

GTX 1080. He he he no lah, joking only. My advice, do lots of googling. There're tons of benchmark for various GPUs out there (I like to read from Tweaktown, Guru3D, Hexus.net, Hardwarecanucks). It depends on what game you play. ie 2013 Grid 2 Racing game on my GTX 970 SLI, 2K average 141 fps, 4K around 80 fps. But go to Battlefield 4, 2K just round 80 fps, I guess 4K below 60 fps.

If your room ambient temp is below 30°C and you get 85°C, personally for me the delta is a bit on the high side. Here's my CPU, overclock to 4.5 Ghz, using Enermax ELC 240, room ambient around 27°C, running prime95 blend test after 5 minutes




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I have Bitfenix Prodigy M - White. Looks compact but its heavy, guess its built tough. The only thing that I don't like (which I only found out after a year if using it), is the "soft-touch" plastic they use for the front cover and also the top-bottom handles. If its get's dirty, its very hard to clean. Plus now after a few time of cleaning it, the surface change from "soft-touch" to "sticky-touch", as if the surface is made from the glue side of a masking tape. But I think no problem if you get Black color. I still have the Prodigy M case (not in use), might want to repaint it some day, or maybe cover with those cheap carbon-fiber sticker from Mr DIY

You have to manually stop the prime95 workers. If its stabilizes at 60-65C, thats pretty good already.

Have a look at my rig for sale https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3985351

Intel Xeon E5-2670 V1 8-Core/ 16-Thread Passmark score of 12,465 points is higher Lumion 6 requirement of minimum required of 10,000 for recommended setup. GTX 970 meets the 8,000 min point but not 6GB for recommended setup. However okay for moderately complex scenes 6,000 passmark points 4GB RAM. https://lumion3d.com/faq.html

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Cool. If its for those rendering apps, i think the Xeon will be a good fit. But heavy gaming, maybe new 4 core i7 skylake better

One of the comment on G-Sync vs Freesync Monitors

"Except these days you have to consider the screen situation too. The price premium on G-sync monitors means the GTX 1060 either gets pushed out of mainstream territory price-wise or you get a nicer screen with the RX 480.
Either way, nVidia's refusal to support DisplayPort Adaptive Sync or make G-sync cheaper means that the only people this card is best for are those not likely to change their screen or who will be gaming on a type of screen that doesn't support variable refresh rates (projector etc.)."

Which i true because those going for AMD will have to fork out less to get adaptive refresh rate monitors because freesync monitor cost way less than G-sync monitor.

The AOC 144 Hz Freesync around RM 1,170. Acer Predator 144 Hz G-Sync Rm 1,799 - RM 1,899. RM 600 to RM 700 goes to Nvidia?