TheConfusedGinge

deyum..lol
 
immersive gaming on that 980 at 1080p.hehe

Very clean and nice set up. Next up is a man sized desk though!

Have you tried resetting the CMOS?

The color coding is just a standard coding for channels. Some don't follow them, some don't even have any kind of coding. The correct way is to read the manuals on both devices. Find out which is the front plug, side plug, rear plug, center/sub plug on your headphone (assuming what you got is the 'true surround' type with multiple channel plugs), and plug it to the jacks accordingly.

Some times the audio drivers will change the line in (Blue) to the last pair of speakers. you'll need to download the software for the motherboard sound and see how it is configured.

Looks like you should be fine + SLI down the road.

SSD, H100i, maybe a better mobo like a z77 Asus RoG board, another 7970 higher res monitor?
 
Other than that your rig is pretty set.
 

Destiny (ps4 launch title)

Definately look into your local computer market.
 
The people can be really resourseful and it helps the local economy.
 
Of course you can buy online, but the postage can add up too.
 
Take your time if you want to learn on your own, although it is relatively easy, you can still make mistakes that become costly.
 
The good news is that on this forum we are all here to help you. =)
 
Good luck in what ever way you choose your new PC.

Build your own PC there are tips right here on the forum not only that people here are more then willing to help you. Give it a try and when your done you will be all like  B)  B)  B)

Hey dude! The Radeon HD 7970 is a great card for gaming, however, it is not a great card for other 3d applications when compared to Nvidia. This is because Nvidia has a graphics API, CUDA (Compute Uniform Device Architecture) that has been integrated into applications like Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects. This API is further supported in 3d modeling applications like Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max. if you are going for gaming, I would recommend you get a 680, even if your going for gaming performance  as it beats the 7970 ghz edition in most benchmarks, as you can see with the link I am going to attach to this post of Titan benchmarks by Tom's hardware (I chose the Titan benchmarks because it was the quickest and most recent benchmarks of the 7970 ghz edition vs the 680 I could find). However. the 780 is said to release on May 23rd of 2013, this month, so i would recommend you wait for that. Also, AMD has up their sleeve a 9970 that they are said to release in Q4 2013 (around December 2013).
 
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-titan-performance-review,3442-3.html
 
I hope that helped!
 
- winny3141 :D

Don't wait unless you want to overpay even more LOL. The 7970 GHZ is the best and fastest GPU for the money that you can get. Add in 3x free AAA games and you have no reason to look anyware else.