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The result of my frustration.
 

Damn that case is straight out of 2008.

It's not glass, it's acrylic. And it's fairly good with not getting scratches.

Perhaps in the new BIOS update msi felt that the 1.260v was not enough for the auto 4.4ghz oc so they decided to step it up in an update to improve stability?

IT's late and I'm both hungry and tired from shooting Scrapyard Wars (which by the way is an LTT series and will be airing ad-supported on YouTube very soon for your viewing pleasure).
 
But there are a few points to address and you've already been patient enough.
 
I said LMG content would always be free. This was poor wording on my part. There has always been content produced by me and my team that was not necessarily available on a free platform like YouTube.
 
These "The Boost" videos that we make on contract as a sales training resource for Intel, for example:
 
 
 
In much the same way, Vessel has contracted LMG the production company to create an original series for their platform. They bankrolled the whole thing, giving us an opportunity to make something that otherwise would have been too costly, and per the licensing agreement they own the right to exploit this content. It's their show until such time as they decide it's not anymore.
 
We played more of a "production company" role in this than we're accustomed to.
 
This could, and SHOULD have been communicated better, and for that I'm sorry. The community should have heard about this from us FIRST, and not from a random email newsletter, but I've been (and so has the whole team) absolutely busting ass to not only get Nerd Sports produced, but also make sure that we're keeping up with everything else that we've got going on including not having missed a single day of LTT uploads for something like 5 years..
 
With that said, quantity isn't everything, and I've noticed that not everyone has appreciated the LTT content as much as usual lately, but it's hard for me to tell if that's because they don't like our new direction (fewer reviews, and more exploratory or experimental videos) or if they just saw a video or two they didn't like and raised hell in the comment section - it wouldn't be the first time.. And I will say, too, that honestly if a couple of the videos felt rushed then it's probably because they were.. HOWEVER, the primary reason for the rushed videos was  the entire week we're taking off this week to film Scrapyard Wars Season 4, which will be premiering on Vessel sometime in the next few weeks or so, followed by a release on YouTube 1 week later, which is the standard agreement for OUR content that is paid for by LMG or our sponsors.
 
Nerd Sports was shot 40% during evenings and weekends with employees taking time in lieu later on when we hire some more staff or when things slow down a little. We were careful to avoid disrupting any of our other commitments because imo you guys deserve the best we can deliver.
 
Which is another point that was brought up in this thread - "How will LMG keep its commitment to maintain the pace and quality of the other content if they're making Nerd Sports or other contractual content?"
 
We couldn't. We're hiring.
 
I've never shied away from investing in more staff or better equipment or a better facility to make sure that we're doing our best for ourselves, each other, our sponsors and our viewers. If we play our cards right, absolutely everyone wins.
 
Nerd Sports has been a fantastic learning experience for us, and whether we continue the series with Vessel, create other completely different web series in the future, or just say "fudge it" and flip burgers from now on, we'll be able to do those things better than we could have without having done this.
 
So bottom line is this. I screwed up the way I communicated "LMG content", which was meant to be content funded BY Linus Media Group rather than content funded entirely by and licensed to a 3rd party, and I screwed up in a MUCH bigger way the LACK of communication about this project. Sorry guys.

i am glad you posted all the specs of said PC, and what your aims are for the new build....oh wait.

The benefit of going 970 @ 1080 is that its very well future proofed, and as a first time PC gamer, the higher frames and smooth maxed out gameplay will be a better experience than all the tweaking you'll have to do running higher resolutions.  

The motherboard doesn't matter much if you're not overclocking, so long as it's compatible with your CPU of choice and you're happy with the I/O it offers, just to be safe probably try and stay away from B class boards, but H class should be fine. The only tangible benefits for Z are the overclocking support 

Much better off with a 144hz monitor instead of 4k unless he had a 390x or better

A stock cooler and an i5 4460 and a low/mid range intel board will run circles around an 8350 in most gaming workloads

It's eSATA

Make sure to turn on XMP in the bios to fix the ram
Your case is not friendly to watercooling. 
Idle temps in bios are always high is that the idle in windows or bios? If windows thats high maybe poorly applied thermal paster or protective plastic left on the cooler
and lastly yes in the future swap to something like an  i54460

It's a gaming rig an i7 is in no way worth his money, as his budget is set low upgrades are not likely for some time. That means he would be stuck with a 380 for quite some time. I managed to squeeze in a 970 w a i56400, that will last far longer 

yup get a i5 6400, a cheaper motherboard and 650watts should be fine.

yes 
Because that cpu would bottleneck significantly and would only increase with new gpu's 

You will most likley get a higher overclock on a fury x than on a nano. Most people report fury x's going to 1200mhz+ but nano's stop at about 1100mhz core clock.

Well if you are not in the market for water cooling then Noctua is highly recommended and that cooler will perform well under the highest overclocks you throw at it.

Well if you are not in the market for water cooling then Noctua is highly recommended and that cooler will perform well under the highest overclocks you throw at it.

I'd go with a single GTX 970, it isn't worth SLI'ing or Crossfire'ing 2 mid tier GPUs, just sell your old GTX 760 or use it as a spare GPU.

Let me find one...
 
EDIT: found one! 
 

 
I like it, because it looks like an infomercial from the late 90' s...
 
Linus doing parts A and B even back in 2007...

As long as that ram's ddr3 your good to go

My cousin has a gigabyte 980ti and It only whines very slightly when OC'd and pushed to the limit (Iv'e head it in person, would recomend)