richarizard
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The extra price of the 4670 isn't worth it for the extra 200Mhz. If you're going to do that, the "worth it" aspect comes from buying the 4670k adding the ability to overclock, which means you'll need to up your board to a Z87 costing a minimum of 100 bucks. That's raising your spending on the CPU 50-70 bucks depending on what you're getting for almost no "real world" performance besides the possibility of an overclock.
The boards are practically the same. 7 bucks more gets you baby poop yellow, 2 extra RAM slots, and the loss of a standard PCI slot. If that's your game, go for it.
As for the video card, personally I would wait. The MSI and Gigabyte cards have heatsinks that add a ton of weight to the center, while not having that reference heat plate keeping the board flat and even/straight. This causes PCB sag which can cause damage after lengths of time. Most don't care, but I can't recommend to people cards that could potentially have problems later.
If you have to buy this minute, I would go for the MSI as I believe the heatsink on it is lighter. Otherwise, check back to Newegg later, or even eVGA's site for availability.
EVGA | Products | EVGA GeForce GTX 760 4GB | 04G-P4-2766-KR
Yes, all of the cards mentioned will easily fit in the case.
About ASRock motheroboards. Heck, I did not know they had UEFI BIOS. I was completely sold when I saw the ASUS UEFI BIOS. Is the UEFI interface in the ASRock similar to that of ASUS?
I also didn't know that the ASUS motherboard didn't have an standard PCI slot. What would I need a standard PCI slot for?
A small reason why I picked the ASUS motherboard is because I might upgrade and get 2 more RAM cards in the future. How would that work out if I only had two memory slots?
Thanks a bunch for the insight of the GPU heatsinks. Wow that is some good info you got there. I will definitely wait to get an EVGA.
Ha, I didn't know you played Mechwarrior. No one EVER talks about that game...at least the people I talk to don't. I read old threads of yours and saw. I remember playing Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance with a joystick back in the good old days. My oh my the nostalgia. My first ever FPS was Unreal Tournament 2003. Then I got Unreal Tournament 2004 and that was my last Unreal.It was great. No one really talked about those games either. Maybe when I build my new PC I will get Unreal Tournament 3. Just maybeeeeeee. I know this topic isn't the right place for this lol hope I don't get in trouble!!