JebKerman

your actual location would help greatly, I'm going to hazard a guess you're in Australia?

maybe your OC is to high for the voltage you're giving it, I've actually never heard of a crash due to a motherboard, it's usually the CPU, more specifically the CPU's overclock.
 
For example, I initially dialed my CPU's overclock in as 47, 47, 46, 46 @ 1.276V (all at 47 was getting a bit too hot for my liking), and it seemed stable, but i still got crashes. so I made a rule that every time it crashes i increase the voltage by 0.001, 4 crashes later and i was at my current 1.280V and it's been like that for over half a year.

I see you've got your 4690K to 4.7GHz, I doubt you'll get anything more out of it, that's most likely the limit of your chip, not your motherboard.

any reason why ROG in particular? there's tonnes of other great boards, even ASUS's not quite ROG, but still has the red aesthetic, Pro Gamer board: https://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-z97progamer
or the far more widely available Z97-A, my current motherboard. It OCes with the best of them, but has a somewhat unusual colour choice.

your actual location would help greatly, I'm going to hazard a guess you're in Australia?

Go for anything b/w Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, AsRock.
 
All are good.
 
Get whichever is cheapest that suits your needs.

USB ones work too (and are improving all the time)

Assuming this is a steam installation:
1. Right-Click game
2. Properties
3. Local files tab
4. "Verify integrity of game cache..."

Eww AMD fanboy.

I wouldn't be surprised if too many of them use the service.

LinusTechTips and Jaystwocents

well, since there are no moving parts in an SSD you can kinda slap it anywhere with something like double-sided tape. which is a very simple solution to the drive count problem.
 
Don't know about the grommets though.
 
but looking at it they have identical internals. so using the 300R grommets and HDD upgrade look like they should work.
 
that said the Fractal Design Define R5 (without window) would fix both problems. which retailers btw?

This is the modular connection at the back of the PSU, not the on the storage drives. SATA power tends to use a 6-pin connection on the PSU.
 
to answer the OP you use the 8 pin slots with 6+2 pin cables.

adding to @sof006
Which game(s)? Is it somewhat consistent?

380
 
to be fair, You are fairly new, probably haven't seen the countless topics beforehand (much like the 970 vs 390 ones)

i6-6600

BCLK is (probably) not as stable as ratio overclocking (not to haswell levels of course) and is more complex.
and there's always a chance that intel will do what they did with the G3258 or, more specifically the mojority of H81, B85, and H97 motherboards, essentially forced a bois update that disabled OCing.

if you can be bothered, and if get a good chip, and if intel doesn't prevent OCing of Locked processors...
see where i'm going with this

BCLK is (probably) not as stable as ratio overclocking (not to haswell levels of course) and is more complex.
and there's always a chance that intel will do what they did with the G3258 or, more specifically the mojority of H81, B85, and H97 motherboards, essentially forced a bois update that disabled OCing.

peculiar PSU choice
 
beat me to it

the Ncase is the smallest thing in it's class, i can kinda agree with the evolv though (I assume the mini-ITX one)

There has to be a good story behind this

yes but it doesn't fit a 3.5" HDD what is what he's really after.
 
Edit: Suggestions (all from silverstone)
GD06B
GD07
ML04B
ML07
RVZ01

peculiar PSU choice
 
beat me to it

surely he would have an FX-9590 and a pair of 2 R9 295X2s. I mean that could keep hell hot on it's own.