Recent content by cleanshot911

Awesome, glad I could help! Feel free to tell me how the build turns out.

Sounds good, I'm glad to here that things are at least working for now :)

2 things. 1) What gpu do you have? If it's an r7 360 or better then I can rework the budget to get you a better build. 2) No, 4gb of RAM is not enough generally speaking for higher settings in games. Faster RAM will not make up for having half the capacity, I'd highly suggest 8 if you can afford...

No problem, feel free to tell me how it goes when you buy it, and have fun gaming!

This monitor is perfect for you. It's a 24 inch G-sync monitor with a 144Hz refresh rate and is $400, right within your budget. You'll have the smoothest framerates around with this monitor. Here's the link: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/aoc-monitor-g2460pg

Have you used any cpu monitoring and gpu monitoring software to see what your cpu and gpu usages are? Because it could just be that your computer isn't utilizing the full processing power of either one for some unknown reason until you started running FRAPS as well. Not sure why FRAPS would set...

This monitor is not VESA mount compatible, but it's fairly low bezel, meets your other criteria, is popular, and is quality. If you have the space to just sit the two of them next to each other you could just do that, but these monitors don't really have a great option for a mounting system...

Not sure what your build is for, but if you are allowed to change the build significantly I'd suggest the one below. Not sure if you can afford to not buy an optical drive, but generally you don't need CD/DVD players for pcs anymore generally speaking. You could still buy one if you like, but...

okcnaline is right it does depend on what the purpose of the build is. If it's for gaming, then you'll want to take some of the budget for the cpu and put it into getting a nice gpu like I did for my build. If he's building more of a workstation, then cpu processing power is more of a priority...

Yes, the i7 in your build can OC. The i5 in mine cannot because it is not a K model. If you'd like to add $30 to the budget or can find $30 by getting cheaper keyboard and case for instance, then you could get the overclockable version of the i5 6600 (the i5 6600k) but you'd also need a...

Even at stock settings those are pretty decent temps for an Intel cpu. At those levels? I don't think you've got anything to worry about. If you see your temps going into the 80s you might want to monitor your cpu temps to make sure it's not going into upper 80s lower 90s. But at 61 you're just...

The build below far surpasses the one in the original post in processing power. It has an i5 instead of an i7, but if the purpose of this machine is just gaming then this is perfect. If he will be using it primarily for things like photo-editing and recording gameplay and streaming it, or other...

The difference between micro ATX and ATX is mostly just size. Advantages to ATX include usually having better airflow, more room for water cooling radiators, room for bigger gpus and cpu heatsinks as well as longer psus, more room for HDDs and SSDs, they're usually a bit easier to build in and...