LilRaunchy

When will those pictures be going up? Excited to see your final build, I am doing one myself in the NCase a few weeks from now.

Thank you all for your support. Taking all of your thoughts into consideration, I am going to get the Core i5-4690K to get a slight overclock and I really don't "need" the hyperthreading after all. I will wait until the new Intel processor line up is release and make an upgrade decision then. I also opted for the Z97 version of the motherboard I was going to get, and added a 240GB SSD over the previous 120GB one. As for the graphics card, I already own the Asus GTX 970 Strix, so I will not be upgrading until the new AMD/Nvidia cards are released. Case will arrive in a few weeks, and I will be purchasing all the other components in the next week,

The title definitely suites the Titan series more I wanted the name of the build to refer to the power it will be packing into such a small form factor. None of the above ^ Using the Xeon because it offers Hyperthreading at a lower price point than the i7 line of CPUs, and it is also rated for 24/7 operation. Basically, it is a rock solid CPU for the price. I am just reusing for now, I have two in SLI right now and the whine isn't that noticeable for me. Would you guys suggest upgrading to a GTX 980 with the reference cooler on it? The only reason why I wanted to 780Ti was for the similar performance, at a lower price (used at least).

I figured now would be a great time to stop lurking and start posting on the forum here, as I am starting a new PC build for the next few weeks to come. I am going off to University next year, and wish to have a no-compromise, small form factor, beast of a machine to bring with me to go to some LAN parties and also save on space while living is residence on campus. This is not my first PC build, so I do have some experience putting a system together, but building in the NCase M1 is going to be an exciting challenge for me to take on. I am currently selling my old system in order to subsidize the cost of this build, so I will be receiving parts in the next few days/weeks and will try to take photos as each part comes in. Some of the parts from my old build will carried over into the new one, such as the GPU, RAM, and HDD. Anyways, here is the build I have speced out: CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K Cooler: Noctua NH-D9L Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-Wifi RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB (already owned) SSD: Mushkin ECO2 240GB HDD: WD Green 2TB GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix (already owned) PSU: Silverstone 600W SFX Click here to see the Build Future Upgrades: GPU: MSI GTX 980 RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) - Not sure which brand yet, will decide when buying Let me know what you guys think so far.