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I ordered the GTX970 'OC' edition. It was $335 I think from Newegg.com with a $10 rebate. For mother board, I went with a MSI z97-gaming 5 motherboard. ($150). It is a no brainer for overclocking. With the i7 4790k, (using just the 'overclock genie' which automatically detects all your hardware and sets up your OC), I went from 4.0 to 4.4. I could manually adjust things and ramp up more....but it is not necessary. It might as well be at stock speeds. The 4790k is made to overclock and is 100% stable here. I did not want to liquid cool this rig so I just bought a cooler master 212 EVO air cooler/rad setup. Quiet and keeps temps in the low 80's even at 100% cpu benchmarking. All in all....this is a demonstration of a fast rig that can be built fairly cheap. This hot swap on the front is AWESOME Also went with a cool case design. Corsair Air 540. Makes for a real neat install with PS being separated from other components. Also gives great cross cooling and a nice washable filter on the front fans.

That is really cool! I was out of the gym for a decade, and at 36 I looked at what I had let myself degrade into and vowed to get 'back in shape'. That soon re-ignighted my desire to push myself to life heavy stuff again. I dont compete a lot. At my level (masters 40+) it is really not competition. My lifts rank me in the top 50 in the US at 198's even in 'open' class competing against guys half my age. I train and lift for me. It is a great release. I'll share this as you would probably appreciate it. I am working towards a 700lb deadlift. Pretty much would hold most records in most every fed at my age class and weight class. I came close...but had to pull back with a intercostal strain. This was part of my training a few months back. It is repping 585x7 (which computes out to about a 720 single). I wear straps on multiple rep sets because this would rip my callouses off with this many reps mixed grip. Love to chat lifting any time!

Very nice! That is some serious weight. What weight class? Im 42 and 5 years back training serious. 5'9" frame and lift in 198's "RAW" meaning no equipment (bench shirts, squat suits...compression wear..etc). I stay fairly lean. <10% year round. If I were 'normal' body comp, I would be a 230+. I let my weight drift up last 4 months of the year and settled at 227 and still had 'abs'. But Jan 1 I started cutting cals again and am back down below 200 again....leanest I have ever been right now. Current PB Bench 420 Deadlift 635 Squat 550 Dealing with several injuries and always working around them. Torn periformas and hip flexor have kept my squat out of the 6's. Shoulder is pretty messed up so I dont much go over 365 unless meet prepping. I have several passions.....I love to draw...but I do other things too! Most people think I am a "bodybuilder", but I dont really lift for size only. I like strength and enjoy heavy lifting. I am not a traditional powerlifter though as fat is helpful in strength. If I wanted, I could let my weight drift up to 220's and carry fat and probably carry most every national title right now. But I like a balance of strength and would not want to sacrifice health by carrying too much weight, just to be "strong". An example of current body comp

It has been said for years that Chief cooperates with Nvidia better. I knew this but I had the card lying around and figured I would try it in my new build. It only took me a day of living with the AMD issues to order a new card. Dont know for the life of me how someone would live with lines flashing in and out as you zoom...sometimes totally disappearing! Anyway....Happy camper with a new updated system now. i7- 4790k oc at 4.4 24 gb memory gtx 970 OC edition 2- 250g ssids 1- 1tb hd 1 -2tb hd (Two HD's (one ssid and hd) are on 'hot swap in the front of machine) 3 monitors 2-23" 1920x1080 1-27" 2560x1440

Issue solved! New GTX 970 card installed, and it is running great. Probably a lot more card then Chief needs, but I am good for a few years. The card benchmarks about 2 times faster than my old GTX660 but you really dont see that much difference in Chief. I can see it in other programs though. The great thing about this card, is it is VERY quiet. Even benchmarking at a 1300 overclock, the card never hit 80 deg and I could not even hear the fans. VERY efficient card. For just over $300, this card is a great deal. Anyone considering a build that will last them a loooooong time in chief, might look at this card. Great bargain.

I actually like Chief ALOT. But that type of display issue is not something I could live with. If I had to work on it and it was not my PC, I think I would pay out of my pocket to get the right card. Not sure how you can even draw when lines go flashing in and out...etc.

I have used Chief for almost 15 years and never had an issue such as this. Always ran Nvida products and knew that AMD were known to be problematic. Anyway......have no idea how you can live with that issue. It only tool me about 30 min to figure out that it had to go. Like I said....ordered new card this AM. If you want a cheap card that will run Chief great, you can pick up a GTX660 for aprox $150. That is what I had and it was rock stable, never made a noise (fans always stayed quit) and drew very little power so you dont need a power supply upgrade. Like I said....I just wanted a new build for the heck of it, but my stuff ran perfectly fine.

Thanks. Tried that.,..... No luck. Heck, I tried just about any function in chief, along with all the custom functions specifically for the card in their on board tuning software (catalyst). Also checked 5 different drivers going back to when the card was first introduced. AND....I check it at multiple resolutions on each setting. Nothing changed the behavior. At this point, I spent my Sunday trying to figure it out.......I dont want to spend anymore time on it. Too much drawing to do. Thank goodness, most all my work the next few days is only in plan view! New card should be here by mid week. In the end, it is about another 25% increase in processing power, so it wont be a bad thing..... Just means I am good for a few years at min. My current build that I switched from was much the same way. Over 4 years old and still ran chief great. I7-950 OD'd with 12gb mem and GTX 660. Spending a little more upfront means I got some good miles out of it. Heck< I dont ever think I have kept a PC for over 4 years. And I really could have lived without the upgrade....but it was fun upgrading and I wanted some other features (like more dives and hot-swaps). So a new build made sense.

Thank you so much for looking at it. I should have known better, but I was crossing my fingers with the AMD card as I already had it. I put an order in for a gtx 970 this AM. The 980 is quite a card! But I was trying to stay on a budget. The 970 Super clock ed seems like a bargain at the $340 price point. Not bad for the 4th or 5th fastest card out. Looks like I have more stuff for Ebay now! Heck I have 5 of the R9 280x toxics. As well as 5 other r9 280x's from some mining rigs I was running.

I found this in 8.1! I remember "snap" from win 7 but I like to take my side monitor (1080) and split it into 2 vertically for 2 browsers. Very easy to do. Just put window on monitor, and hold windows key and hit L or R arrow. You can even move across to a diff monitor. That is all I need! Thanks!!! You actually let me to it! Try it out. I think it works on 7 too. I like to put my spotify window on half screen too!

Thanks man for the info. Found a thread where the same thing was happening...and with BOTH AMD and Nvidia cards. Tech support is aware of it, but there seems to be no fix currently if this is correct what is written in the thread. If this is the case I am going to order the Gtx970 tomorrow. I dont want to draw like this. It will drive me NUTS! To hear you are having no issues with that card is good. It really is a beast and not much slower than the 980 and $200 cheaper. Since I have Lumion running, I think getting the best card I can get will be beneficial. At this point an extra $100 to go from the 960 to the 970 seems like a no-brainer. Only thing I will miss is "Hydravision" where you can configure your desktops and split monitors. I really was liking it. There is a separate software for $30 called "actual multiple monitors" that people seem to like that accomplishes much of that and more. http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/screenshots/ It also does not seem as bloated as some of the other programs that are similar. If I go back to Nvidia, I will probably go that route. Check out this thread: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/4016-video-card-question-or-flickering-lines/

Exact same thing is happening to me on new build. R9 280x card AMD. Made a thread here.: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/4266-amd-video-card-help-lines-disappear-at-various-zoom-levels/ If there are no solutions, thinking about just ordering a GTX 970. Anyone having issues with those?

Here is a vid of what it is doing. It even captures it in screen cap. You can see some of the lines dont even show as I draw them. All lines same line wt, yet when zooming they change all over the place.

Tried on any plan. Even a new one. Go to elevation/crossection view, draw a few cad lines and zoom in and out and they appear/disappear (and change line weights). What chief renders is NOT affected....just cad lines on crossection views. Is the 970 not worth getting? Hell, if I dont get this figured out, I dont want to screw around, but I considering my box is built well, I wanted to put a nice card in (without trying to go up to the 980 for $200 more and not much more performance. The 970 is a smoking fast card and not too expensive for what it does.

Just tried dialing though all the drivers I could find. All act the same. Only in elevation mode. CAD lines disappear in and out as you zoom. Sometimes getting larger (like higher line weight) and sometimes disappearing. Ugh.... Everything went so great with this build, I was pretty happy. Maybe a call into tech support?....Anybody else have any ideas. (except for getting a GTX 970 )

I know that chief likes Nvidia cards but I had a R9280x toxic card lying around (which is a pretty fast card) so I decided to install it. It is VERY fast compared to my GTX660 I had previously installed. No issues except for one and hoping some here might have a solution. In elevation view, I losing CAD lines at various levels of zoom. Does not seem to drop lines in floor plan view. Eg as I zoom in and out they disappear and re-appear. They also seem to change line weight (even with line weight display off). Any ideas of where to start. I played with the settings in AMD catalyst control, but none seemed to make an impact. Hoping someone else has had this and solved it. i74790k @ 4.4ghz z97 gaming 5 motherboard 24gb ram R9280x Toxic by Sapphie 3GB GDDR5 (UEFI)

Just remember a call I got about 6 months ago on a small plan (with a tight back staircase that was partially under a clipped roof. The framer (one of the best I have ever known) called me as he was unsure of how the stairs could fit in and was also concerned that several beams that an eng sized would not fit under the roof. He wanted to raise the plate heights up of the roof. I assured him it would all fit and did these framing drawings in a few minutes and texted them to him in the field. It put his mind at ease and showed him the stair would work and have proper head clearance...etc. VERY VERY handy tool to have when you need it. The pics should be self explanatory. (In the view of the stairs, I did not take the time to draw the clg joists going the proper direction, it was more to show how the valley clipped the stairwell.

I framed for MANY years and would dare say I am as good a framer as they get. I can and have figured just about every roof combination over 15 years in the field building mainly custom homes. I have zero problem picturing how anything goes together. Now with Chief, the 3d framing is AWESOME when you are really pushing the limits of framing. (fitting rooms in under clipping roofs, making complicated stairways...often fitting in under sloping roofs as well. You can have all kinds of hip/ridge intersections that have to clear a certain size beam...etc. I agree that on most plans, it is not necessary. But every once in a while I will use the framing tools to make sure tight areas can work fine in the field. Plenty of room for beams, ventilation, head clearance....etc. Especially 2nd story rooms or stairs that fall under valleys set in from the outside bearing on the first floor. For someone to say they are useless.....I would say they are just drawing easy stuff Custom stuff with multiple plate heights, clip ceilings....etc..etc, it is an invaluable tool. Just let your framer tell you the tool is useless when he has a main bearing LVL that has to be overnotched at the end to stay under the roof plane and he is stuck bolting steel flitch plates to each side. I think he will like it if you had used the tools then

You can also use conventional round roofs and adjust framing to get neat results. (this was all automatic framing). I did not take time to draw clg joists but it would represent frame of awning. I rendered it semi-transparent material on top

Why not just use two 'rounded" awnings. "core cat" (ext attachments>awnings> rounded. When you accurate move them they line up great. Even look good underneath. Just have two lines at corner in vector view only. You can even stretch them on X axis to look more like that profile

I believe there are chain link panels in the core library Fences and railings>chain link> tall and short panels BTW. I answered your PM about location. Did not know if you saw it. Justin

My g13 profile wont do much as I had to designate a bunch of hot-keys to use functions I wanted. I can explain my profile though.... It is not complicated....and really just bare bones at this state. I'll see if I can find that thread....

Yep been running the G13 for a while again now. Really using it for 10key, feet inches, a shift and ctrl key and copy paste. I can do most of my drawing without touching my keyboard. Mouse in right and g13 in left. I finished specing my new comp today. My current is not bad, i7950 3.0712gbmem with gtx 660 card, but I figured I do a new build because I had some stuff lying around. I have 5 r9280x toxic cards lying around.(mining experiment) They are pretty fast cards, I also had a z87g45 motherboard and several ssd's along with 32gb of DDR3 1600mem. Just realized to use the some of the new features of the I7 4790k I had to go up to a new z97 board, so I ordered that. Basically going to pop in 2-240gb ssd's and I have 2-2tb conventional drives (one for storage and the other is a backup which I run a RAID type storage software) Not sure if I will try to 'crossfire' 2 video cards if chief cant use it. I have 2 monitors, a 27" Dell@ 2560x1440 and a Asus24" @ 1920x1080. Not sure if crossfire benefits me at all.... I have win8.1pro and win 7pro. Not sure what OS I am going to use....Been using win7 for a while....but might jump up to the never OS even though I dont like a bunch of stuff about it.

I think I have heard many times that chief does not support SLI. I have a few nice R9280x cards lying around doing nothing. (About on par with a GTX770) Was going to put them with i7-4790k. I know nvidia cards they say are preferred, but I have the R9's already. These are actually 'toxic' cards which are overclocked from the factory and have 3 large fans on each. So is SLI a possibility? Besides that, any issues with them being AMD. Thanks guys! BTW currently running 660gtx with i7 950 and it is getting up in age.....figured it would be a nice upgrade.

Just ran into it again with 'architectural blocks" Again, opening up the DBX in layout view and then closing by clicking "ok" updated it. (no changes made in box). I did not just try to hit cancel or "x" it out....I just tried "ok" and it worked fine.