Hawk

About time!!  Welcome Prle!!

What video card do you have.  Technology has gotten to the point that you almost need to match the monitor's abilities to what the video card is, and is capable of!!
ASUS 144hz monitors are the best, in my opinion.  I've heard really good things about the HP Omen line as well.  That being said, I LOVE my Samsung monitor...have had it for a very long time with no screen blur or burn in.  BenQ are budget monitors.  If you really have that $1000 max spending limit, go with an ASUS ROG 144hz or a HP Omen 144 hz monitor.  
EDITED: I posted this before seeing SixGun's post.  Even that article lists the BenQ as the budget monitor lol  Also has multiple ASUS monitors on that list    Personally, I would shy away from anything like a monitor as "budget".  

When I was talking about the video card capabilities and the monitor capabilities, do some research into G-Sync vs Free Sync (https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/freesync-vs-g-sync/)
 
 

So Cobryis, some of us still know him and have known him when e was 14/15 years old. And got to know him by the Crysis game. But anyways,.... 
He asked me to pick parts for him and he hired me. Even though, I do that for free. I love to help. 
I already have his CPU, a Intel i7-9700k and his motherboard came in today. I want to brag about it ; ) and you can download this and watch it on your PC with for example the VLC Player:
It was the third time I turned it on. First was, oh, shot no video output (DVI). Second time, I uuuhm.. had the CPU Fan plug on the system Fan header. Alright, lets go. 
https://ufile.io/zve9u2ov
And hey, don't think with that, I am better in Dutch.. nope! 
 

Some RAM overclocks and stable: https://valid.x86.fr/t5up94
 

Personal opinion, but i feel the i7 is a waste of money. The i5 gets almost the same scores for almost every game in benchmark tests. Normally to the point where the $100+ can be saved or used in a different aspect of the computer. But i also feel that the nvidia rtx 2080 super (w/e their top card is this week) is over priced too and I'd get a lower one because most monitors only support 60fps or 144fps and anything over that is over kill, not to mention your eyes only notice things around 45hz or less depending on a lot of things...
 
But if i had more money to throw at a PC I'd get the i7 and top graphics card... Maybe the i9 or i7 extreme... I haven't kept up with Intel's naming over the past year or two.

Just make sure you got a nice SSD to compliment that CPU, you can spend all the money in the world on the rest of the parts but if you are running a standard HDD it's like running a $500 machine with $2k worth of parts lol.

Absolutely correct. 
 
If you have a motherboard that supports PCIe NVMe gen 3.0 x4 I would pick up a Samsung 960 evo or 970 evo 1tb drive. They are literally ATLEAST x4 faster than a M.2 Sata 3 drive or regular 2.5" SSD
Sata speed maxes out at 600/600 MB/s but typical speeds of 540/560 MB/s are seen with high end SSD drives. PCIE Gen 3 drive maxes out with 4,000 MB/s sequential read which is the current hardware limit until Gen 4 and Gen 5 come out and literally blow that speed out of the water with claims of being 6x faster than Gen 3.
 
This is a rock solid choice for a good drive. Price per performance? It's a No Brainer. Just do it.
https://www.newegg.com/samsung-970-evo-1tb/p/N82E16820147691  
 
 
 

OK this may be a little premature.. and not everything is working.. but it's back enough to start being interesting to people. I was bugged (abused) at the XI fest that the stats were not there so came back and wrote some friggy code into the portal and got the XlrStats working again through the B3 bots system. 
The B3 and XlrStats projects have not been supported in a few years so I had a some updating and changes to make it compatible with the latest version of PHP etc. Most of the website features are working but some of the datatables are displaying the wrong data. The server information page and player profile pages look pretty good. 
The stats are running on our most popular servers for each Call of Duty game. I have added the links to the home page on the left under the GameTracker server list (see image):

 
I will continue looking at the website and trying to figure out why the data tables are buggered (also had to comment out some code to make it work). If you are interested you can look here for my fork: https://github.com/frasermolyneux/xlrstats-web-v3
Hope this appeases some of the more vocal folk... 
Duc

wait.. I Molested HIM?
hows that work?
 
and there is no COD5 FTAG on there so I must not have done it enough!

Thanks @Hawk  That was sooooo fun!

PigLo Wheee.mp4  

Good for you bud! My shit is 2016 and not getting any younger. Technology needs to slow down!

That is a damn sight newer than my old setup was! I think it was around 2009!

New rig is all set up. I had to reinstall a few things due to new OS on the SSD....Origin was not cooperating at first and EA support tried their best to help, best solution to avoid a massive fuckabout is just reinstall everything.
 
I cant believe how much faster everything is loading from the SSD! I really thought it was a sales pitch at first, now I'm looking at how much it will be to get a 2 TB SSD..... I'll let you into a secret, it's a lot!!
 
Anyway, some pics of the new set up, on my old desk still ?, for you to enjoy. ??
P.S. I can't bring myself to remove the plastic film off the glass panel.

my M.2 drive got faster after the new bios update it boots in 5.2 sec now. was 7.2 sec  makes booting fun now  

If hell bent on getting SSD for storage, don't get a m.2.  Get a regular SATA.  1TB is $155  US, 2TB is $345 US and the 4TB is a whopping $735.....
 
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147673
 

I just got mine the way I like it
ASUS TUF X470 Gaming Plus AM4
AMD 2700x running 4.2Ghz boost 4.6Ghz
Noctua NH-D15 SE-AM4
32 Gig Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 cl 15
Samsung 970 Evo M.2 500 Gig Pcie 3x4  3550 read 2623 write
Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA M.2 Type 
1000 watt PSU
XFX RX 480 XXX edition
3 deep cool  RF-120 rgb led and 3 RF-140 aura sync
 

 
boot time 7.2 Sec !!fu

Upgraded the SSD to the Samsung EVO 970 500GB! Only about £40 ish more.?
Couldn't justify an extra £175 for the 1TB. ?
 
Still haven't told the wife yet, treating her to Captain Marvel today so today might be the day... ?

Literally just finished building almost the exact same rig!!  Same power supply, same processor, same motherboard chipset, same m.2 SSD (I went with the 500gb though), same memory size....
Differences are:
Asus TUF Pro Gaming z390 motherboard g.Skill Trident Z RGB 16gb Gigabyte GTX 1070 video card Samsung 970 Evo 500GB m.2 Western Digital Black 2TB drive Windows 10 Pro 64bit. DIYPC Vanguard-V6-RGB Steel/Tempered Glass Mid Tower w/ 3x RGB 120mm fans Up and running and doing AWESOME!!!  Haven't gamed on CoD4 yet.  Been trying out all the newer games that are out there that I couldn't before lol

Need to do that to my previous computer, and clean up the wiring to make me feel better about it!!  Need to wait until it warms up a bit though, because I really don't want the multiple inches of accumulated dust blown around my house!  LOL

Literally just finished building almost the exact same rig!!  Same power supply, same processor, same motherboard chipset, same m.2 SSD (I went with the 500gb though), same memory size....
Differences are:
Asus TUF Pro Gaming z390 motherboard g.Skill Trident Z RGB 16gb Gigabyte GTX 1070 video card Samsung 970 Evo 500GB m.2 Western Digital Black 2TB drive Windows 10 Pro 64bit. DIYPC Vanguard-V6-RGB Steel/Tempered Glass Mid Tower w/ 3x RGB 120mm fans Up and running and doing AWESOME!!!  Haven't gamed on CoD4 yet.  Been trying out all the newer games that are out there that I couldn't before lol

Need to do that to my previous computer, and clean up the wiring to make me feel better about it!!  Need to wait until it warms up a bit though, because I really don't want the multiple inches of accumulated dust blown around my house!  LOL

Literally just finished building almost the exact same rig!!  Same power supply, same processor, same motherboard chipset, same m.2 SSD (I went with the 500gb though), same memory size....
Differences are:
Asus TUF Pro Gaming z390 motherboard g.Skill Trident Z RGB 16gb Gigabyte GTX 1070 video card Samsung 970 Evo 500GB m.2 Western Digital Black 2TB drive Windows 10 Pro 64bit. DIYPC Vanguard-V6-RGB Steel/Tempered Glass Mid Tower w/ 3x RGB 120mm fans Up and running and doing AWESOME!!!  Haven't gamed on CoD4 yet.  Been trying out all the newer games that are out there that I couldn't before lol

Literally just finished building almost the exact same rig!!  Same power supply, same processor, same motherboard chipset, same m.2 SSD (I went with the 500gb though), same memory size....
Differences are:
Asus TUF Pro Gaming z390 motherboard g.Skill Trident Z RGB 16gb Gigabyte GTX 1070 video card Samsung 970 Evo 500GB m.2 Western Digital Black 2TB drive Windows 10 Pro 64bit. DIYPC Vanguard-V6-RGB Steel/Tempered Glass Mid Tower w/ 3x RGB 120mm fans Up and running and doing AWESOME!!!  Haven't gamed on CoD4 yet.  Been trying out all the newer games that are out there that I couldn't before lol