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The braided one equivalent will be just an 8 pin, That's a 6+2 which only exists so that power supply manufacturers can save money and cater for two different connectors with the same cable.

Example from my computer:

Correct, I'm not sure what kit you have but just make sure it isn't an EPS 8 pin, The PCI one will fit very easily whereas the EPS one will not.

When the Cheeto dust starts forming a protective layer.

Look into the Corsair Sabre mouse if you want a good mouse on the cheap and want to stick with Corsair. Or the Scimitar Pro if you play MMORPGs. 

when whacking it no longer makes it work

I cri evy tim.

PSU and hard drive should be okay. I think the PSU is some sort of 500w one, perhaps silverstone. I'm not too sure and he has no idea whats in his system. 
 
Case is one of them cheap gaming-styled cases that a lot of pre-mades come in.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  (£186.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£76.16 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: *Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£73.77 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£84.95 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£62.39 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£47.57 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £530.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-19 23:56 BST+0100

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/TcGTyf try this 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  (£186.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£76.16 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£119.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: SK hynix - SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£76.92 @ Ebuyer) 
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon R9 270X 2GB Vapor-X Video Card 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit 
Total: £459.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-20 01:01 BST+0100

If you know that code comes with Asus Rampage V Edition 10. I can dig out my motherboard box & look through it. Since I will not be using any CableMod products ( I create all my cables from scratch).

Solved by adding an external USB hdd. Slow but better.
 
the greatest advantage the pi has over the clones such as bananapi is the community. As well as being cheaper.

you'll have to port forward to the pi, this setting is on your router. You'll want to set up something like https://dnsdynamic.org/ so that you can have a web address rather than having to tell everyone your new ip should it change. 
 
Do remember you're be allowing public access to your pi and all your data so keep it up to date, just look at wanna cry and please don't use user:pass as the login. Make it secure.
agree with this, though headless might save on resources Linux is light any way, my Ubuntu budgie desktop stills at 700 mb ram used and gpu around 0~2%.
 
You could be a NAS I have a dlink share centre 320 that I use for my file back and used to be for media play back but I have since moved that to my desktop. 

I think we need a new "hug" smiley for the forum. With all of the arguing and negativity popping up on the forum I think adding such a smiley would be beneficial for everybody here so they could throw it out there for those who need it (some more than others).
 

No, it's just a normal expression in English, and also a children's playground game.

I got enough free time and knowledge to do a bios update, software is my stronger side.

According to the internet, the Corsair Vengeance Pro is 44mm in height, and the R1 has a 30-35mm ram height clearance.  

Indeed. So basically the Ultimate is too big, but the Universal is just right. Thanks for the help man, I appreciate it! 

It's the green fan header at the top.
Idle temps don't really matter. Test for load instead. Your temps aren't low but won't cause any harm to the cpu. If you don't have thermal paste, I'd suggest getting some ASAP.

inb4 "just get a noctua cooler"

Thanks for the help. I'm currently in contact with them, and I am using stock intel for now. 

You don't need to purposefully avoid FreeSync just because you use NVIDIA. FreeSync monitors will work just like a normal monitor on NVIDIA cards, and it doesn't add anything to the cost of the monitor (which is why it is called FreeSync).

I bought a Cryorig A40. Comes with a few good features that no other AIO's have. 

Seeing as how you have a 970 my recommendation would be a good 1080p 144hz monitor.  In that case I would look into this monitor:  
 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-MG248Q-Gaming-Monitor-Adaptive-Sync/dp/B01DO6B83E/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1480706402&sr=1-1&keywords=asus+mg248q
 
I use the 1440p version of this monitor and it's great.  Haven't had any issues with it whatsoever.  If you have more money to spend you can get a gsync version, but this will do nicely with your graphics card.  

Notepad++ is good for coding if you're starting