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Cooling and customer service? EVGA.

Google Photos(For photos I WANT to keep.), Flickr(keep ALL photos including ones deleted, cause free 1tb storage...), then to a external HDD once a month. (Pretty much everything, or anything I want to backup.) 
 
Also note I don't take pictures too often. 

I just bookmark my porn pages.

Wow, entitled much? What kind of classes are you taking where you need better specs than that? And why does the case, motherboard, PSU, or anything else matter while you're using it for school?
 
Here's a good life lesson for you: If somebody lets you use something FOR FREE don't complain about it EVER unless you want to look like an entitled brat to the adults in the room.
 
Seriously, take a minute and think about what you've been given and don't complain about something you didn't have to pay for.

I've seen people use TrinusVR its a viable solution for casual VR gaming on pc. Obviously nowhere good/perfected as an actual VR headset. (ex. vive, oculus)

It's been a while since I tried but it was better than I expected, it's worth a try anyway!

No problem.

You can tether your phone to your pc to reduce delay. 
 

I would start with your graphics card and upgrade it to a 1060 or 480

Quality shitpost m8.

Nope. Save the money.

YouTube don't give a fuck about fair use. If anything, they will take down the video and you will have to appeal it claiming fair use and they might put it back up.
(YouTube has an automatic system that sees what music is being used)

If you don't really need the full 2TB, just go with a new 1TB drive for like 50 bucks. 

I use g2a often, and only used shield if its over 10 bucks as well. I have never had any real issues as I only buy from "known sellers". (I did buy tomb raider 2013 w/ no shield and it didn't work. But I contacted the seller and I recieved a new code plus an extra for free.  )

I would buy RX 470.

There is no Vulkan optimization yet.
 
Only DX12, as there are like 7 games (and in 5 of them, the 480 pulls ahead).
 
Check out my Post in Mythbusting Thread, i made a Post about Doom@Vulkan.
Nvidias has a "bug" there under Vulkan, where you get strange frametimes, and some kind of triple buffer.
Nvidia is working on a Fix, so we know nothing about Vulkan right now. If something's there, Nvidia might fix it, and Nvidia GPUs might get a significant Boost under Vulkan, with much smoother Frametimes.
 
 
So.... All you can know now, is, how the situation now is: 1060 > 480.
 
The 480 CAN pull ahead in DX12 games, and even MAYBE (not sure yet!) Vulkan. But it also might stay behind.
 
So yea. Either is fine, as none will be far ahead of the other. They will probably remain in the <10% difference region.
 
Also.. MSRP shouldn't matter anything. The price you pay in the end for a Custom model (Reference is Crapshit. And Nvidias "Fanboy" Edition is also Crapshit, just less than AMDs) matters, or not?
 
Cheapest Custom designs are Listed in germany for 299€, while 1060 starts at 279€.

We actually do have a pretty good idea about Nvidia and Vulkan.  Currently Vulkan makes little to no difference on Nvidia, while the RX 480 can see up to 44% increase!  Even if Nvidia fixes their issues, they will never see that much of a boost on Vulkan.  The massive boost for AMD is due to the CPU overhead problem which has always been a thing on the GCN architecture.  Vulkan sidesteps that problem, allowing the game to make full use of the "hidden" performance.  
 
This is part of the reason why AMD cards always tend to get faster over time.  They have a lot more room for optimizations.
 
I think there is a reasonable chance the rx 480 will surpass the 1060 in performance over the 3-4 year life cycle.  But today, the 1060 is faster and that's all we know for sure.  So it is the safe bet to get the 1060, especially if you want CUDA for your other work.

A) people exaggerate
B) It's more than AMD has been using a VERY similar architecture since 2011, so all improvements to the newer cards often apply to the older generations as well. AMDs drivers were also crap and were seriously holding back their cards -- their older cards have gotten better over time as AMD has worked out a lot of that driver overhead. 
 
Honestly, my expectation is that the 480 will be better in the long run, but not by any game-changing amount. 

This video is the BEST test for a good monitor:
 
 

Visually pleasing 1440p, smooth wise 144Hz is ooooorgasmic and once u try it the 60Hz will make u puke.
 
I was fine with 60Hz until that day I saw 144Hz, oh man GET 144HZ
 
My eyeS prefer smoothness over extra clarity of the image.

Electicity bills in summer are expensive as fuck so I turn my PC off when I didn't stream animes or music

Might as well sleep it. It pulls almost no power when sleeping.

http://www.howtogeek.com/122954/how-to-prevent-your-computer-from-waking-up-accidentally/

Never turn mine off unless I am tinkering with something or have to go out of town or power goes out...

Hearing 25 x 120mm fans and two water pumps spool up makes me feel like I'm about to do some work.  I shut down or restart every chance I get.