It really depends. Are you wanting to future-proof? If so, be aware of the risks. First generations of new hardware rarely work perfectly and usually have faults - not so much with the processors, but it does happen (I remember P4s burning themselves out in the first gen). Video cards have a bit of a higher fail rate or don't perform at their best levels in the first ships either. You will also pay a significant amount more for the pleasure of having the first-run stuff - even if it works perfectly, you may pay 50% more for maybe a 10% power gain. That 10% may be worth it, but you need to consider the trade-off.

Second, are you mostly doing MMO gaming? You really don't need that firepower to throw at MMOs. My older machine ran TESO perfectly well at 1920x1080, even with players cluttering the screen. An SSD is a bigger upgrade, if you don't have one.

Having the newest technology is always cool, but it's always a rat race. If getting a Haswell and a 780 now is a huge upgrade, why does it needs to be 3% or 5% better in a few months? You said yourself that 12 cores is basically useless for your needs, so why would you bother getting it now? It would seem better to spend some money now, and save up for when you need it.

I built my new machine now with the goal of being able to play Star Citizen without much issue through the DFM. I did it now so I can begin saving to build another really good machine when SC releases and put myself in the best possible spot. If your goal is to be doing streaming, run video editing, and play a game at the same time, then maybe a 12-core machine with an 880 would be best. But you will pay top dollar to have those on immediate release, and you might be paying for unstable hardware.

If you requested an invite and are still waiting, post your bnet name here. We have a number of names in the wait list that I don't recognize that I won't invite until I know who they are.

Wacko, you sound vaguely familiar (I was there in swg, and was with krom in wow). Wecome. Any friend of Krom's is a friend of mine. Currently playing d3 if you want to stop in and say hi.

Quote from: Sticx45 on February 24, 2014, 05:38:16 pm

I'm thinking he was unhappy by the level of support (lack there of) that he was getting from Bohemia, and the limitations of the Arma engine.  Perhaps he is looking at starting his own game up.

This. He said he wants to make the best multiplayer game possible, but can't do it with DayZ. He's going to stay on until feature complete.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S4

He's just doing what he said he would do 8 months ago. The only reason this is news is because the game isn't finished and some trolls on Reddit made it news.

780s are way down in price. I just picked mine up for 505 (485 after MiR). You can get a TI for 200 more bucks but I don't think it's worth it. And it was an EVGA. It has the ACX cooler and it stays frosty - it's been dropping down to almost room temp idle and rarely getting past 45 degrees in Skyrim. No overclocking applied as yet.

Quote from: hayt on February 20, 2014, 11:09:45 am

On another note, most, if not all, of the pilot-driven ships have been depicted in atmospheric flight. It makes sense to design a ship with both in mind, including air intakes and (somewhat) aerodynamic design.

I doubt all SC ships will be able to land on planets with an atmosphere. The bigger ones will probably for space flight only. Especially when we talk carriers, I think if they land anywhere it will be at space stations.

Right, Bengals can't land gracefully. However, we have seen destroyers and other capital ships flying in atmosphere in the concept art. Whether we'll actually be flying in them is a moot point - if we are to land and take off without major assistance from expendable items, craft will need to be able to fly in atmosphere and achieve exit velocity from said atmosphere. That means they need to be aerodynamic and be able to fly in atmospheres, including engine vents and intakes, even on capital ships. Unless they plan on introducing a technology we haven't seen yet.

As an update, got the drive thing figured out.

As for the temperature, I'm fairly certain something wonky was happening, as CPUID's HWMonitor shows nothing out of the ordinary. It's also been running the whole time and I assume it would be showing damage (or just burnt out) at this point. So looking good so far.

And with the new machine. I did one yesterday and hit 2700, today's mark comes in slightly below.

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0

FPS:   
64.1
Score:   
2683
Min FPS:   
30.6
Max FPS:   
125.0
System

Platform:   
Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model:   
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz (3400MHz) x4
GPU model:   
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 9.18.13.3221 (3072MB) x1
Settings

Render:   
Direct3D11
Mode:   
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset   
Extreme HD