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I'd at least wait for the 3xx series if you want to game in 4k.

Double ROG swift? How is that ever going to be beneficial in any way? lol

I would probably start testing it with wolfram alpha queries first, just because there's loads of stuff you can look up on it. It's a great way to test the speech recognition.

Custom loops aren't really something that will actually lower the temperatures by much anyway vs AIO loops or good air coolers, it's more of a hobby than anything else.

Yeah I'm not too sure about that power supply.. I'd save the money on windows and the SSD and get a better video card.

I don't know if the monitor is supposed to be included in the budget. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.29 @ Amazon) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($47.98 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($27.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.89 @ OutletPC) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card ($334.98 @ SuperBiiz) Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($31.98 @ OutletPC) Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($24.99 @ Newegg) Total: $585.10 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-10 04:48 EST-0500

Do not ever use gpuboss to compare GPUs, it's not representative of anything.

Get this RAM kit instead, it's cheaper and performs better if you ever decide to upgrade your motherboard. http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f32133c9d8gxl

A 120mm rad is the same size as one of those PCs.. I don't think you will be able to fit a lot without making that thing at least 3x as large.

I would still recommend a G3258 + 970 rather than a i3 + 770 or even weaker. CPU is way easier to upgrade anyway.

It doesn't if you overclock it.

You can get cheaper RAM, HDD and the speakers are just downright bad. I'd get anything but a WD Black just because of the noise they make, and the sound bar already sounds bad just from the name.

I don't think the SLI scaling really applies on doing CAD work.

I think the difference is just the firmware, although I could be wrong. You're getting a lot of useless firmware with the WD Red drives so they'll most likely be more expensive.