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The only ultrawide resolutions available right now are 2560×1080 and 3440×1440. There are no 4K ultrawide resolution monitors.

1.38 should be fine, but you can always buy hte intel overclocking warranty. if you don't feel safe. 

That's prostitution 

This. you'll get more from spending 100 more on a GPU than you'll get from spending 100 more on a CPU
Unless rendering, in that case i7 All the way, no doubts.

Alright. I just didn't want them to be too bulky or too close to the motherboard if they didn't have to be. I'll go with a 360 and 240 then. I appreciate all your advice and help.

That should be fine, thickness matters a lot less than surface area. 

The typically rule is 120 rad per major component and an extra 120 if you are overclocking. So you would be cutting it close. I have a 480 for a single 970 and 4790k and my GPU temps are in the mid 40s and CPU in the low 50s during gaming.  

Go for the larger amount, better to have too much than too little and the fans will be able to be lower rpm with more radiator space. 

You can get it lower, but it depends on your priorities, looks vs temps/noise. 

is the card thermal throttling? If it isn't I would just leave it, there isn't a performance difference at 60C vs 50C or lower

Probably just less precise version for horizon as it has to cover many more surface types like gravel and dirt. Horizon also runs at 30fps, don't really see why this is news tbh, forza Motorsport series has always 60fps Afaik.

or upgraded, I just got a new video card so I couldn't play a lot of games last sale. 

DX12 will bring performance improvements, there is no doubt about that, but it will only do so on games that are made using DX12. Don't expect and improvements on current or older games without some major (and unlikely) updates by the game devs.

I agree with @Suicidal Korean it probably is the fans not pulling the heat away quick enough at the low rpms. If it was a pump issue the issue would also be at load and not just idle. 

The idle seems high, My idle is 28-32C but load is about the same, and really as long as you are not getting into the 90s it doesn't matter. 

Yeah silicon lottery matters a lot. I am at 1570 on my 970 and I have not maxed it out yet.

@Captain Chaos
 
1) RAID IS NOT A BACKUP. mirrored arrays don't prevent corruption, you simply end up with corrupted data, on 2 disks. The ONLY way to truly protect your data, is to back it up in multiple places. I know I know, easier said than done. I personally just dumped 18TB of data to 7 3TB hard drives. Labeled the disks, then put them in ESD bags, back in the boxes, and then placed them in a box and stored them in my basement, for cold storage. The data I've accumulated since the dump won't be backed up in the event of a catastrophic failure...but losing 10% is much better than 100%.
 
2) Nope, don't even bother purchasing a board just for it's massive amount of sata ports. You can save a lot of money using a RAID card or HBA. Which use PCIe lanes to connect the drives. most cards provide support for 8 drives, and then if you get an expander you can even run something like 32 drives-ish off one card.
 
Raid card or not? Up to you, ZFS software raid is really powerful. So if you go that route, a RAID card is actually not recommended. They recomend HBA's, the LSI 9211 in IT mode is a very cheap HBA. So that's an option if you want.
 
3) All nice RAID cards are pretty much the same, except for the software used to manage them. I would look into the software they use to monitor the arrays, configure them, etc... and see what you like best. I went ahead and purchased my card because of the LSI name, and I had used LSI cards at my work before. The problem with this though is that I was using windows OS which the LSI software works flawlessly.
 
It took me nearly 3 months to figure out how to install the LSI megaraid server on my linux OS. And I haven't been able to replicate it since. I have survived just by cloning my drive to an SSD and using that to recover from failures. I can't upgrade the server utility either, so I'm stuck with what I have now. I can't really complain, it works perfectly fine...once I got it installed lol. Before I got MSM installed on my server, I would just reboot the machine and go into the cards bios to make changes. I much prefer MSM as it's all laid out in front of me with a GUI.
 
I'm currently very happy with my hardware RAID setup, I get amazing performance out of it, especially with my caching SSD's. Shortly after I got the caching SSD's setup, I ran some benchmarks on my array and nearly maxed out the card on the read speed, and wasn't too far behind on the write speeds. 
 
4) I would get a low-end i3, to give yourself some room if you do decide to do something else with the system. I run a quadcore xeon in mine, but I'm running 4-5 virtual machines, as well as daily transcoding for plex. If I ever get the money, I'll definitely be getting a more powerful CPU because I can make use of it. It didn't start that way though, initially with my setup my CPU was overkill, then I found some useful things I could do with it, and kept adding on. A low end i3, would allow you to do some other tasks with the system, not just store files. And it supports ECC memory, which the g3258 does not.
  5) The 1GB of ECC RAM per TB is a recommendation, it is not required. A lot of people don't do it, and a lot of people do. Personally for me and my data, I would not risk it and abide by the recommendation. However, with you rocking RAID 0 like a champ, maybe you're that kind of risk taker. 


checkout the links in my sig, where I talk about my server and some updates and even problems I ran into, might help you with some choices.

To get a max OC, water is the only way to go. 

To get a max OC, water is the only way to go. 

Don't use a developer preview. Wait until the full release.

Alright, sounds simple enough. Thank you very much. I will look at the rads/pumps/reservoirs that JayzTwoCents used for his Skunkworks build as I imagine he would only use the best and go from there. If I have any more questions, I will be sure to come back and ask. Thank you so much f5alcon, you have been a huuuge help.

I wouldn't just buy fans on what they say their static pressure is, look at actual reviews and maybe listen to videos of how they sound and see if you can tolerate the noise. 4X480s is a ton of cooling, could probably make two loops and do less if you wanted, 360 for CPU and a couple 480s for GPU. Jayztwocents only has a 560 for triple titan Xs and a 480 for his 5960X.
 
If single loop, singles res, if dual loop dual res. res is mainly for easy filling and draining more res does not improve cooling performance.