DryzonDigital

Always go for one stronger card over two weaker cards, no scaling issues or SLI profiles to worry about. 

Yup, gonna wait for the 3xx series. If they're no good, 2x970s or a 980 sounds awesome!

For 1080p 60 hz a 280x is enough.
But for 1440 144hz 2 970s (or 1 980) should be enough also (as far as I know).

Relaxing as f*ck bro! 

Sounds like a fun day!
What kind of music do you normally listen to?
How about some Avenged Sevenfold, Offspring?
Or are you a fan of the wub wubs? 

So it's Friday in Australia, Yay!
 
Just going to relax with some music on the LTT forum, enjoying myself.
 
What music should I listen to? I'll give all your suggestions a try. 

Love ya,
 
Rex

I'd recommend you to get the RM850(will work with 970 SLI), that PSU is simply rock solid! But if you want room for upgrades(if you're going with the 970 SLI) and the PSU to last longer get the RM1000

(I have updated my comment with some more info)
Yeah, sure. 
Just keep that in mind :-)
 
Anyways, of to bed for me now.. School in the morning then It's Week end break
Which means homework on my own ...
 
Good luck and have a nice day/evening.

I totally get your 100% valid points but I'm keeping back a little bit to allocate money for GPU+PSU upgrade. 

I would suggest getting something bigger for a water-cooling setup (even if it is not custom thingy).
Such as the 300R or something else. Especially since your budget is so big and perhaps a 256 gb ssd?
I am not sure how much everything will cost but I think you can afford it.
It would be nice to have some extra games on the ssd such as gta V (60gB)   
 
I do not suggest getting another 280x "just while waiting" and then switching it out for something else. I would much rather just wait it out or get a strong(er) card such as a 980 or 2 970s.
Everything would probably fit in the 200r but with the 300r you will get more headroom (especially for the water cooling) and better air flow.
I do no know any special/good extra fans that you can have in your case.. I would just look at reviews/rating and then pick after that.
I would suggest getting 2-4 extra case fans then you need to choose if you want positive, negative or neutral air flow ^^
(The Tech team has made a video about it if you are curious, Linus and those guys)

I switched it over for the Corsair H100i.

Yup, fixed that. http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/hTq2NG

Try posting this in the planned builds category but I`ll say its okay but with your budget get a x61 rather than such an old aiO cooler

They way I see it is, my friend will be one lucky guy with his new 280x this June, haha. I mean I wouldn't want it sitting on a shelf would I?
 
All you've said is 100% right, I'd much rather wait for the new AMD 3xx series supposedly on July in terms of gpus. In terms of CPU power though, I might make the jump to Intel and have a nice neat build ready to suit my brand new GPU around September-ish.

What about a R9 295X2?

This and then use the rest for a loop.
 
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3Qq2NG

That extra build could be used as a media server, a storage server, an htpc maybe, or even donate it:p your editing needs would be more satisfied with an i-7 and as much ram as possible! If you want me to be more specific and provide more suggestions, please feel free to tell me

That's kind of a shame. Although I usually never end up selling parts (specially GPUs) as they are often more welcomed in the hands of friends and family that are still using sluggish old hardware. Maybe you can do the same if there is no easy sell popping up.
 
Many others are going to come up with pretty good partlists even for new entire systems that fit your budget (typical i5 4690k + GTX 970 combo), and while they are right (those parts are simply much better that your current hardware, I had found myself needing a lot more PC horsepower for some projects and my OC'd FX 8320 was keeping me quite behind) it doesn't mean you should upgrade the whole thing right away. We are on this weird time of the year when the hype and PC enthusiasm is right on its peak, but the hardware we want to purchase can become obsolete quickly; both new GPUs and CPUs are going to be released soon enough (leaks say 2 months for GPUs, a bit longer for the Intel CPU release).
 
So let's change what won't matter down the road (even if current hardware on the market is highly compelling, nobody likes to know they missed on something for not holding), and that's  what you said, RAM, SSD and the CPU cooler. Those parts are going to be as good as today by the end of the year, we are going to be still using DDR3 even for the new platforms, we are going to keep OCing (apparently cooler mounting compatibility will keep being exactly the same, and even if it change, companies will sell the latest mounting hardware), and for storage even if M.2 and NVMe seem to be the latest and greatest, most people will keep loving their Sata 3 drives, specially with their prices becoming cheaper and cheaper.
 
Monitor-wise, we all know there is still a battle of the standards going on between the main companies. Personally I think until 2016 we won't see any clearance on the dynamic refresh matter, so unless you plan to spend over $500, don't hold back on those pretty pixels. 29" 21:9 2560x1080p is a great mid-spot for the enthusiast, and prices are on par with 1440p, so it's your choice really.
 
Your CPU probably still has what it needs to keep you entertained for months to come, and maybe the R9 280X too?

With that money you could pretty much do a new build , but I kinda like your idea better. Extra RAM, moar SSD, some OCing and a shiny new display. However I'd just try to sell the R9 280X and get a new powerful GPU.

Perhaps you have to use an active adapter for more than two monitors.

If I know one part that is the ultimate budget pick and is awesome.. it's the Corsair 200R (amazing case for the money).

You are welcome

So, I had an idea strike. I'm getting the RAIDMax Hybodus.
Its profile speaks to me...
Like something from a nightmare...

yes the 4690k is a beast of a cpu.