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New PC – Final Specs

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Core i7-8700K Coffee Lake 3.7 GHz LGA 1151 $399.99*

Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 LGA 1151 ATX Intel Motherboard $199.99 – $30 rebate = 169.99

Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 AMP! Edition $269.99*

Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-02 Mid Tower Gaming Case $59.99

Seasonic FOCUS Plus Series SSR-650FX 650W $89.90

Corsair Hydro Series H80i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler $86.50

G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 SDRAM 2133 (PC4 17000) Desktop Memory F4-2133C15D-32GVR $349.99

Samsung 960 EVO Series SSD – 500GB NVMe M.2 Internal SSD $240.00

Samsung 960 EVO Series – 250GB NVMe M.2 Internal SSD $114.99*

Pre-Tax Total 1,781.34
Tax 96.00
Total $1,877.34

All links are to Amazon.
All prices are what I paid.
* means purchased at Micro Center and were “In Store only” deals.
edited 17DEC2017 – forgot to subtract $30 rebate on mobo

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition

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Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 17.12.1
In a nutshell: New GPU monitoring software including an Android App.
“We’ve designed Adrenalin Edition as a powerful tool for those who aspire to achieve gaming greatness among friends and the community.”
Marketing, LOL.
Download 337 MB, Minimal setup drivers are 39 MB
Release Notes
AMD Link mobile app for Android and iPhone
Linux Driver 17.50, Dec. 12, 2017

Windows 10 Disable Power Throttling

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I have seen 2 posts about Win10 FCU messing with peoples power plans. One of them even intimated Win10 was somehow covertly throttling CPUs. A dastardly deed if there ever was one.
There is in fact a super-duper-top-secret way to disable CPU throttling in Windows 10. I’m going to show you but you must promise to keep this very covert and dangerous information away from… well, somebody. In fact this message may self-destruct any moment.
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