mlbguy4life

clear hard tubing, with colored water looks the best.....just like skunkworks from jayztwocents on youtube

i would rather have an air cooler than a single fan radiator

How on earth are you going to build a pc with gtx 970 sli on a $800 budget???  

SELLS YOU THEM?!?!?!

go to pcpartpicker, go to system build, go to mobo's and enter the stuff that you're looking for.  eliminate from there.

Extended support ends 2020... http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/lifecycle

I prefer win 7.

gpu, but you need a " decent cpu " as well

i wouldnt, the 6300 should be roughly the same price, and is better, whatever the price difference is, its worth it

im not sure of your currency, but in usa $$$   intel i5 4690k/4790k $200-330  -   amd fx6300/8350 $100-160

It only takes a few seconds for a CPU to die from heat without a heatsink.

You don't "set-up" the UEFI. It's there with all the settings set to what is needed. You only really go into the UEFI to adjust settings like fan speed, SATA mode (RAID&AHCI), Overclocking or relatively simple stuff like that. There is no need to set it up

Go with Intel.  An FX8, no matter how overclocked will bottleneck a 290.
 
Your best upgrade is a Z97 motherboard paired with an i5 or i7, everything else is secondary to that major upgrade, and not even necessary.  More SSD space is a luxury, not a necessity and won't give you true performance gains like an i5 will.  Also, Memory, why do you think it is going bad?  Run Memtest and find out if any errors pop up.  If not, keep the memory.

Man, I sure wish somebody would give me a 970 as a gift LOL.

4690k + motherboard hands down. The FX lineup just doesn't cut it for gaming these days. 

asus has bad support services, i thought everyone knew that

Fractal Arc Midi R2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujH42NYOgbI

asus has bad support services, i thought everyone knew that

i have the asrock z97 extreme 6 , love it...

the g2's are better than the g1's

If you're never going to overclock it then you shouldn't really care. The product will work fine out of the box.
Before buying the GPU you should check your PSU's available pins. Mine only have an 6pin and 6+2pin. So a GPU with 8+8 wouldn't fit.

best buy has a microsoft

The other components need power too, your CPU, motherboard, ram, hard drives, ssds, fans, coolers, etc etc etc all need power
 
Dont forget that PSUs generally work best at 80% load so thats 400 watts, dont forget there are some bad PSUs that say "600w" but is actually a peak power rating, not a continuous power rating which is something like 380 watts instead

No offense to the OP, but if he couldn't match the correct cpu to the corresponding socket, then I wouldn't suggest trying to fix the bent pins of a socket.