@insane_metalist: Sweet. Cheers for your help. Funny enough when I bought the S340 case I swapped my old system into it when I was using that very air cooler and it was too tall. I shopped around for hours trying to find a cooler locally that was low profile enough to fit and not a complete rip off. No luck, over here there is a very, very limited choice of air coolers are all are extremely over priced. Example, the CM 212 Evo is $30 on Amazon and $60 here.

@insane_metalist: Duh! I see where I went wrong with the PSU, I was playing around with the list and read the wattage usage with two 980Tis in there.

The Parts I'll ship in are CPU,, GPU, RAM, SSDs and M.2 drive, all are light and much cheaper. Already have the case and the motherboard, Windows, PSU and the cooler I get get locally as they aren't too far off US prices. I'm just limited with choice on PSU so it's going to require a bit of hunting.

@insane_metalist: Cool. I'll update the parts list again when I land on a PSU. Part of the problem is that some things I will be ordering from the states and some I'd rather buy locally because of shipping costs of heavier items out weighs (pun intended) the savings I get from ordering it overseas. Only thing is choice is limited where I live and PSUs are typically heavy items.

@insane_metalist: Cheers for the suggestions. I did indeed look at that board for a while. I'd be lying if I said that it wasn't the paint job that made be want to go with the MSI :), I'll take another look at it. From memory it was a very similar feature set, the Asus does have better SATA placement as well as more of them. I think what turned me off was a couple of reviews taking note that it felt "cheap".

I haven't done much research on the PSU yet so that model will be on my list, I need to confirm the wattage as part picker is rating at a hair over 750W right now and I normally build with headroom which also allows me to re-use the PSU without worry on future machines.

I don't think I would buy another Seidon though. My first experience with that cooler wasn't great, all the screw holes stripped upon installation. Fair enough it might have been that one unit but it left a really bad taste in my mouth and the retailer I bought it from refused an exchange.

@PredatorRules Thanks. The OS was thrown in as OEM Pro because I'll be "borrowing" one from work :).

@PredatorRules: A bit of both as well as general purpose work. I've been doing a lot of work lately with a friend that has revolved around web design for the most part (hence the monitor upgrade), but we are moving towards audio and video creation now and it would be silly of me to not prep for that if I'm building anyway.

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted!

Anyways, I'm way over due for a full hardware refresh on my main machine. I typically do not upgrade very often so therefore tend to splashout (within reason) when I do. To give you an idea my current rig runs a first gen i7 and two GTX 570's that I built in 2010! After a few days of catch up and many revisions later I've come up with the following build.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/CWCyCJ

Rationale

NZXT S340 - Yes it's a midtower. In the past I've gone with fulltowers as they are far easier to work with but I simply do not have the space anymore and can't find a fulltower that I find aesthetically pleasing without spending hundreds.

CPU and GPU - As I mentioned I don't upgrade very often so I don't mind spending more for longevity of the parts. There is an argument to be made for going with a 5th gen CPU maybe a 2011v3 socket for the PCIe lanes. Thoughts?

Motherboard - Dictated by the components really. It ticks all the boxes for what I want in the machine and it fits with black and white colour scheme I'm going for. People have made comments on the Sata Port placement so that concerns me a little if I ever opted to go SLI as the express ports (I think) will not be able to be used if I install an M.2 drive.

Storage - I'm planning to boot and install my most used applications on the M.2 although I need a little more research for peace of mind that this is indeed possible as I have come across reports of issues with booting from M.2 drives but under X99 with some motherboards. My one concern is the PCIe lane use. Even if the GPU PCIe bus is running at 8x this won't hinder performance giving me 12 free lanes but if I ever went to SLI at 8x/8x am I still safe with 4 lanes in use on the M.2 taking into consideration lanes in use for the on board LAN and sound. My understanding is that these lanes are to the chipset rather than the CPU making it ok, but I'm still fuzzy on this.

The MX200's will be raid 0, I did look at the Samsung 850 Evo which beats out the Crucial in benches but at the time of writing the difference is negligible in real world use and I am able to find the MX200 for cheaper. The 500GB models of each of the SSD's I looked at perform noticeably better than the 250/256GB versions apparently due to the number of physical chips making up the capacity allowing the SSD to take better advantage of the tech behind writing data to the drives. I may add a platter HDD later but I have an 8TB NAS on my network where I store media.

My plan is to also purchase a 1440 monitor as I hold the opinion that 4K just isn't quite there yet. I have yet to pick out the monitor.

Black and white colour scheme, which was surprisingly easy to maintain when picking parts. I don't have a hardset budget as long as I can rationalize the part and overall build. It'll be a jack of all trades machine.

Really appreciate it if you've read this far. I just need a fresh set of eyes on it, I tend to obsess over my builds and overthink things. Open to any suggestions on changes but even a thumbs up on part compatibility and the overall build would be great.

Cheers

Thanks you've answered a question I was looking for. The cameras in NFS MW were horrendous and I ended up trading the game in because of it, which is a shame since outside of that it was enjoyable. But due to those cameras it was just too frustrating to play. From the looks of things I''m not the only one, do a google search for NFS MW cam. It baffles me why they only have 2 cameras and 2 awful cameras at that.

So my PSPlus is up for renewal and this just popped into my head. With the industry worrying so much about the sale of second hand games and due to the lack of real backwards compatiblity on current and next generation systems why not turn aging consoles into subscribtion services? Offer up a library of digital games at a set price on a monthly and or yearly basis. This should allow devs to continue to make money on older titles and continue revenue for the console manufacturer long past when that system would normally be shelved. Obviously this wasn't possible with the older machines in their current states but take Sony for example. If they were to release a model of the PS2 no disc drive just a hard drive and charge users say $10 monthly or something and offer up a large enough library of games that could be downloaded and played off the hard drive as long as that subscribtion is active. Like a direct Netflix for games but in this case without the middle man.

What do you guys think? Surely I can't be the first one to think of something like this, there must be a good reason they don't do it? Perhaps they are worried about the uptake on newer systems if they offer older ones on this model.

Poke holes shoot me down, but on first thought it seems like apretty good idea to me.

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Just get some PSN cards can buy digital. It's what I'm doing, I got Uncharted physical copy because it came with my bundle I bought then I downloaded Lumines UMvC3 and Wipeout2048. Way better than buying physical copies.

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