WOW A BRIDGE TOO FAR UPGRADE

It does have RGB LEDs, but they behave themselves. I mean, it would be nice if it had a few more USB ports on the rear panel, but I knew what I was getting into when I bought it, so itвЂ™s hard to judge it for that. That was over a month ago, and so far I have no major complaints with the Z270-A. It also seemed to have a solid combination of features for the price, so I took a chance and ordered one up. I usually buy motherboards in the $150 range, so it fit the bill there. I purchased it the day it went up for sale with nary a review to be found online. One unknown for me was the Asus Prime Z270-A. Of course, thereвЂ™s some personal preference involved in my choices, but I doubt many gerbils would complain if their own PCs suddenly contained identical hardware to the stuff I bought. Many of the items therein are TR favorites, while others are at least generally recognized as quality stuff. Much of my parts list should be self-explanatory. HereвЂ™s the complete list of everything that went into my upgrade:

WOW A BRIDGE TOO FAR UPGRADE

The only thing I kept from my old PC was my EVGA GTX 980 Ti Hybrid which, if I behave myself, still has over a year of service ahead of it to reach my personal every-three-year GPU upgrade threshold. ItвЂ™s still pretty respectable, but seeing these results in our i7-7700K review pushed me over the edge. That Sandy Bridge build served as my main PC for probably twice as long as any of my previous rigs. My old rig (now paired with a Radeon RX 470 for dedicated The Sims 4 duty on the TV) was an i7-2600K mildly overclocked to 4.2 GHz and sporting 16GB of DDR3-2133 RAM. To succeed in DayZ you need the right gear: a lot of apples and a lot of single-threaded CPU performance.ДЇirst off, itвЂ™s good to know where IвЂ™m coming from. Simply put, my guess is that when it comes to clock speed and IPC, Kaby Lake is going to beat Ryzen handily. What I did know was that that the games I want to play need every last bit of single-threaded CPU power they can get. Pulling the trigger on my upgrade was influenced by the same speculation and rumors that anyone reading TR would consider. Now, I donвЂ™t have any insider info about AMDвЂ™s upcoming chips. As it happens, IвЂ™m quite pleased with the results and IвЂ™m pretty confident that Ryzen couldnвЂ™t do any better. вЂњFish, you idiot, Ryzen is almost here! You should have waited.вЂќ That could be, but I wonвЂ™t be buffaloed into second-guessing my decision. I can hear the palms contacting faces already.

It was time to upgrade my PC, and I recently completed my new build.

After nearly six years and countless posts about how my i7-2600K was still good enough, I decided that IвЂ™d had enough of good enough when we published our Core i7-7700K review.

Wow a bridge too far