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Jack Revenant :
Discounts can be deceiving, though I can understand your confusion. For reference, the FX9000s are, functionally speaking, just overclocked variants of the FX8350. Flashy, but the performance just isn't there.
Well, I can't tell you what looks good. Some people like NZXT's smooth, futuristic style, some like the blocky, aggressive styling on Cooler Master's stuff, some like the professional look of Corsair or Lian-Li, etc. Looks are down to preference. I'd encourage you to look at the towers I mentioned (and, if you want some variety, also at Corsair's Obsidian line, SilverStone's Fortress and Raven series, Fractal Design's Define series, and Thermaltake's Chaser series), and see what you like. From there, we can work to find the best-performing option for you, which might potentially include swapping the lackluster fans on a case you like the aesthetic of, depending on how things go.
Liquid cooling is the best cooling you can get, if you're willing to work at it. A custom loop will offer cooling that can't be beat, but you'd have to modify your cards (to remove the stock coolers and add the water blocks) and void the warranty in the process, to say nothing of the basic costs of a good loop. It's a lovely way to spend your time and money, but liquid cooling requires a lot of commitment, to the point that a lot of people (myself included) eschew it altogether. I would note that a good stock cooler (or even an aftermarket air cooler, such as the Arctic Accelero Xtreme III, though that brings in voiding the warranty again) will be fine for cooling any graphics card, including in CrossFire, so long as you have good case airflow.
Now, regarding fitting a liquid loop in your case: short answer: yes. Long answer: Yes, but what exact radiators and fan configurations you could manage would vary based on what case you ended up using. In something like a Corsair 900D or other liquid-cooling specialized case, your options are functionally limitless. In something more air-centric, like SilverStone's Raven series, you'd be quite limited in what you could put together. It all varies by the specific case you're working with.
Current viewpoint is that DDR4 is coming with the next generation of processors (Broadwell and Haswell-E, for Intel), though I'm not sure about AMD. That would mean sometime next year, though I don't believe that we have an exact date.
If you wanted to use DDR4, you'd need a new motherboard, but if you mean for the moment, you don't per se need one. However, looking at the specs for your current motherboard again, I note that you only have PCIe 2.0 at x4 for your second GPU, which would almost certainly bottleneck a high-end card like the 290 or 290x. You might want to consider upgrading to something with at least x8/x8 if that bothers you, though if you'd then be upgrading again for DDR4, I wouldn't go for it. While you wouldn't be getting maximum value for money from your GPUs initially, even with the bottleneck dual 290/290xs will be far more than you need for gaming (and even recording).
I feel you there, mate. I'm actually a YouTuber as well (with a glorious total of 17 subs), and I know where you're coming from. That's why I have dual 7970s myself, actually. When I got my rig, they were the best single GPU you could get, much as the 290x is at current (in my opinion, at least). Being prepared is always worthwhile, in my opinion.
Don't worry, if you hang in there long enough and keep producing solid content, the subscriber base will come. Well, that's what I tell myself as I edit yet another video to get 15 views, anyway. In the end, I think that the secret to making it on YouTube is enjoying the content creation process enough to do it even when you're not getting fame, money, or acclaim. That lets you keep going a lot longer than the people who expect to hit it big quite just by doing crappy Minecraft Let's Plays (no offense meant if you're a Minecraft LPer).
By the way, what do you use for editing? I use Premier Elements, myself, and I saw a surprisingly large performance increase when I upgraded from 16GB to 32GB of RAM. If slow rendering is why you're looking towards a new processor, getting more RAM might be a simpler solution (though, as said, with DDR4's imminent arrival, it may be better just to endure and wait).
So the processor is a no go zone? I thought it was very good, an 8 core 4.6ghz processor is just amazing! I'm torn between what to do, buy it or leave it.
As for the case, I've done some research and I quite like the look of the cooler master HAF x. It a nice case expect I'd prefer a transparent window so I can lolok at my hardware! (I'll also have a fan controller, and I'll replace the default red LEDs with some color changing ones, if I can do that) what do you think?
I don't think I'll be getting DDR4 memory, as it's probably going to be super expensive to start with, and I doubt games will start to use the advantage of DDR4 memory until quite a long time.
As for the 290x, I'm not sure if I should go for either a 290x or a 7990, since there're almost the same price, etc.. I might only go for one video card, as they are pretty expensive... Seeing how hard liquid cooling is, I might not go for that, at least not for the graphics card. For the processor that's seems very easy so I'll do it. I might get some air cooling for the graphics card though, something like that. What do you think?
And finally, for youtube I'm not going for money at all. In fact, I've been asked by partnering companies to join them, but I refused as I don't want to get into the entire money/business and contracts stuff. I have 140 subscribers and 4,500 views but 8 views (I deleted two videos) myself, but I seem to be struggling to get one or two more subscribers. I'd love to see your channel; would you mind if you give me the link? Oh and also I use Sony Vegas (the $60 version). I have some okay render times though...
Thanks a lot for your help Jack!
Hopefully we can work stuff out one day
Ah, but the thing is, eight cores and 4.6GHz for an AMD processor is not equal to eight cores and 4.6 GHz on an Intel, nor even to the "mere" six cores and 3.4GHz of the 4930k. The processor you have now is around the same performance as that one, and you could beat it handily with overclocking if you wished to.
The HAF X is a damn solid case, I've got to say. I don't use one myself, but I've had one on my table for the past month (long story, that), and I can definitely appreciate both the aesthetics and the performance. It actually does have a window, by the way, it's just L-shaped, conforming around a fan mount which blows onto the GPUs. If you want to change the colour, the only thing you'd need to remove would be the front fan, which has red LEDs, but fortunately many good options exist for replacements. From there, you could either get differently-coloured fans, add an LED system like the NZXT HUE, or both.
I wouldn't expect DDR4 to be massively expensive, but you're definitely right that it won't be a big gain in gaming. I'll be trading up, myself, but I can definitely understand choosing not to.
I wouldn't recommend the 7990 in almost any circumstance. It costs more than a pair of 7970s/280xs, which are equal if not better in all regards except for space consumption (two cards taking up 4-6 expansion slots instead of 2). As for the 290x, if price is a pressing issue (or, honestly, even if it's not), the R9-290 may well be the better option. Honestly, if I were buying GPUs now, I'd grab a CrossFire of 290s (once the appropriately-cooled versions were released, of course). That said, a single R9-290x should be absolutely fine for your needs, particularly with an overclock on it.
Liquid cooling a processor isn't actually that much easier than liquid cooling a GPU if you're talking about a custom loop, but processors have the advantage of not requiring warranty-voiding modification to support non-stock coolers, which makes things like closed-loop liquid coolers a much easier route than they are with GPUs. The HAF X is a pretty good case for that, for reference, though if you don't intend to OC your processor, you wouldn't actually need anything better than the stock cooler. That's your call, obviously, however.
Ha! You're a more honourable man than I am. I'm definitely in it for the money, at least in part. What can I say? I have tuition to pay.
Sounds like your channel is doing pretty alright, at least by comparison to mine. Mind linking me it? I'm quite intrigued, I must admit.
I'd be happy to link you my channel, but I don't like to connect my online identities too much. If you send me a PM, I'll give you a link to my channel in response (due to TH's shitty coding, I can't actually send PMs, only respond to them).
Well, if your times are okay with you, that's great. Maybe I should look into Vegas, actually. I love the interface on Premier, but I get pretty impatient waiting for things, particularly when I'm working on my backup system, which only has an 8350.
I'm always happy to help. If anything, this sort of relatively concrete tech stuff ("4770k > FX8350", "770 > 7970") is a relief from the damnable subtleties and relative values of my everyday life.
I'm sorry that we're not moving as fast as you might like, though. In the past, I've tended to shepherd folks towards a relatively quick, simple solution in threads I've responded to, but I often felt that left them without everything they were looking for, so I'm trying to be less heavy-handed these days.
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