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Setup file server with RAID 50 but two too many RAID controllers (to the point it's closer to RAID 0 since you're relying on all of your RAID controllers to be operable) and no backups
 

dont shoot me:)

Setup file server with RAID 50 but two too many RAID controllers (to the point it's closer to RAID 0 since you're relying on all of your RAID controllers to be operable) and no backups
 

dont shoot me:)

This is what I would suggest
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($328.01 @ Vuugo)  CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($91.99 @ Newegg Canada)  Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($169.99 @ NCIX)  Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($66.99 @ Newegg Canada)  Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($113.01 @ Vuugo)  Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card  ($429.98 @ Newegg Canada)  Case: Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower Case  ($154.99 @ NCIX)  Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($119.98 @ Newegg Canada)  Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit)  ($107.92 @ shopRBC)  Total: $1582.86 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-15 01:11 EST-0500   Could also do something like instead of a 750D you could get a 760T Black, or w/e case, 750D would look good too, and get red sleeving/red LED like this build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/484256-skylake-pc-build/?p=6501819

I would put vSphere on it and use it as a VM host.  If you want to use it as a NAS you could just make that a VM.  Multi-purpose is good, you could even install pfSense, make a DC, whatever you want.  If you have the need for a gaming machine, like it would work, but the Xeon isn't very high frequency so it's not the best.

Yeah your only chance is Black Friday, it'd probably be easier to find a build next week.  I also think you should get a dedicated video card, this seems like a waste without one, don't expect it to run like a console, it's going to run horribly with a dedicated card.
 
Let me see what i can come up with though.  I think the biggest question is, decent frames on what games?  Any game?  Because if so, you're going to need more $.  Also you don't live in the US????  Where do you live then?  The US PCPartPicker isn't going to be the best place to look for you if you're not buying from those sellers listed there.
 
Edit: Personally I would be thinking more along these lines:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($68.89 @ OutletPC)  Motherboard: ASRock FM2A78M-ITX+ Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard  ($66.98 @ Newegg)  Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($18.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 370 2GB Video Card  ($119.98 @ SuperBiiz)  Case: Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($34.99 @ Newegg)  Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($15.99 @ Newegg)  Total: $325.82 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-15 20:52 EST-0500   Also you don't have enough $ to overclock, it's just not price efficient.

Recommended:
 
6600K
MSI Gaming M5
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB Red
Samsung 250GB EVO
Western Digital Blue 1TB or Seagate ST1000DM003 (only this model)
Gigabyte GTX 970 WindForce (if you can get a dual-fan MSI or dual-fan Gigabyte for ~20% do it)
Seasonic M12II 620W
Cooler Master Seidon 120V Plus (good brands are CM/Corsair/NZXT)
Air 540 or Corsair 450D or Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 5
 
*notes:  - the Seagate is technically better but possibly a little less reliable, but only by a small fraction so personally I would get the Seagate, especially if its cheaper which it seems to be.  WD Black would also be good but don't pay the premium for it.
 
Also I like the Air 540 best.  Here's a good looking build in it:

 
Hope this helps

I think those who are more networking-savvy may have more of a tendency to.  You can team the two together for 2Gbps, or setup a router on the machine as well such as pfSense.  I probably wouldn't recommend this board for pfSense, but for testing purposes it may be handy.

Gigabyte has a fine BIOS from what I've seen, all of the UEFI BIOS are about the same I'd say, with maybe Asus having a bit more features (but you pay a premium for sure).  Back a few years ago when UEFI came out Gigabyte stuck with the legacy BIOS instead of including UEFI while pretty much every other manufacturer transitioned to UEFI, so maybe that is where that came from, not sure, anyway that was only for the P67-Z68 boards, after that they switched to UEFI so for quite awhile their BIOS has been pretty much the same as everybody else's.  I mean the legacy BIOS still worked, just wasn't as pretty.
 
Yeah usually when people include three colors it doesn't work out unless you go really extreme, like with custom sleeving etc.  Like this for example is Black/Green/White.
 
CM's AIOs got good reviews and they look pretty good, they've got good fans on it too.  The other closest option would probably be a 120/140mm (less cooling potential) Corsair cooler (more $).  Either that or an air cooler (downside is it'll bury your RAM etc, but they perform well), or DIY range cooling.
 
Examples:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/phanteks-cpu-cooler-phtc14perd
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/be-quiet-cpu-cooler-bk019
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-cpu-cooler-cw9060019ww
http://www.amazon.com/EKWB-EK-XLC-Predator-Liquid-Cooling/dp/B014CVMP6Y
 
Also lets be honest, 8GB of VRAM isn't going to matter at all when you're running the games at 1080p.  Not even close.  nVidia hasn't come out with their own Fallout 4 drivers either so you can say the same about their cards.
 
This is kind of what I'm thinking then:
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($253.99 @ Amazon)  CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($79.99 @ Newegg)  Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($164.99 @ Micro Center)  Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($84.99 @ Newegg)  Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($79.84 @ Amazon)  Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($51.88 @ OutletPC)  Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card  ($324.99 @ NCIX US)  Case: Corsair 760T Black V2 ATX Full Tower Case  ($139.99 @ Newegg)  Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($86.98 @ Newegg)  Other: Silverstone Tek Sleeved Extension Power Supply Cable with 1 x Motherboard 24-Pin Connector  ($12.99) Other: Silverstone Tek Sleeved Extension Power Supply Cable with 1 x 8-Pin to EPS12V 8-Pin Connector  ($10.97) Other: 2 X Silverstone Tek Sleeved Extension Power Supply Cable with 1 x 8-Pin to PCI-E 8-Pin Connector ($12.98) Other: NZXT CB-LED20-RD 2-Metres Light Sensitivity Sleeved LED Kit (Red) ($17.99) Total: $1322.57 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-14 19:12 EST-0500   Going for a look kind of like this:  
B)   $55 to make it look beautiful.  If you don't get the LED kit it won't look as glowy as that, a lot of the photos they advertise cases with don't actually glow like they do in the photos, even if they have like decked out LED fans.  So if you're expecting that, you won't get it unless you get one of these things, just FYI.    
Not really sure I follow, do you mean you only want 144+ FPS if you have a 144Hz display?  High FPS significantly improves the responsiveness of games even on 60Hz displays.  You don't necessarily need to see the difference, but the game is still running a lot quicker and will be more responsive.  Also at a competitive stand-point, going from 60FPS to 200+FPS is going to make much greater difference than going from 60Hz to 144Hz.

Some thoughts:
 
I prefer sticking with Asus or Gigabyte boards, I have had bad experiences with MSI boards in the past, versus no issues with Gigabyte/Asus.  MSI just doesn't feel as solid of a company to me, especially their mobo division.  Their video cards aren't bad, but even their original Twin Frozr II cards had fan problems where they would wear out (like GTX 500 series).  I think they are fine now since it's a different fan design, but still.   WD drives have statistically a lower failure rate, but many Seagate drives are faster (200MB/s vs 100MB/s sequential read/write), you can look at Newegg reviews to find out how fast it is.  If the Seagate driver has good reviews it's usually pretty reliable and you may want to consider getting that instead. (edit oh nvm, looks like the units Seagate is selling at the moment are lemons lol.  Seagate is like MS, they make good HDDs then they make lemons then repeat)   The PSU is pretty expensive, you can get XFX power supplies which are SeaSonic rebrands for much cheaper.   I'll look at pcpartpicker and see what i can come up with.  Also I kind of agree GTX 970 vs 390 isn't as clear cut as many people seem to think it is.  Nvidia has much quicker driver updates, and the GTX 970 will overclock a lot better than the 390 (especially the Windforce model I'll link).  By the case I assume you like black/white/red?  What about Black/White or Black/Red?  Usually three colors looks ugly to me but maybe black/white/red would work lol.
 
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($253.99 @ Amazon)  CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($79.99 @ Newegg)  Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($164.99 @ Micro Center)  Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($84.99 @ Newegg)  Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($74.99 @ Amazon)  Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($51.88 @ OutletPC)  Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card  ($324.99 @ NCIX US)  Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($108.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($86.98 @ Newegg)  Total: $1231.79 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-13 13:29 EST-0500   The main difference with the video card though is just that it has a larger heatsink and more fans, so its got more cooling potential.  This means it'll be quieter / you can overclock more than an MSI card.  I would also consider looking at other cases too, Corsair makes very good cases, I would take a look at the 750D, and personally I think the 760T White is a beautiful case, the full side window is just stunning.  (pic here)

Some thoughts:
 
I prefer sticking with Asus or Gigabyte boards, I have had bad experiences with MSI boards in the past, versus no issues with Gigabyte/Asus.  MSI just doesn't feel as solid of a company to me, especially their mobo division.  Their video cards aren't bad, but even their original Twin Frozr II cards had fan problems where they would wear out (like GTX 500 series).  I think they are fine now since it's a different fan design, but still.   WD drives have statistically a lower failure rate, but many Seagate drives are faster (200MB/s vs 100MB/s sequential read/write), you can look at Newegg reviews to find out how fast it is.  If the Seagate driver has good reviews it's usually pretty reliable and you may want to consider getting that instead. (edit oh nvm, looks like the units Seagate is selling at the moment are lemons lol.  Seagate is like MS, they make good HDDs then they make lemons then repeat)   The PSU is pretty expensive, you can get XFX power supplies which are SeaSonic rebrands for much cheaper.   I'll look at pcpartpicker and see what i can come up with.  Also I kind of agree GTX 970 vs 390 isn't as clear cut as many people seem to think it is.  Nvidia has much quicker driver updates, and the GTX 970 will overclock a lot better than the 390 (especially the Windforce model I'll link).  By the case I assume you like black/white/red?  What about Black/White or Black/Red?  Usually three colors looks ugly to me but maybe black/white/red would work lol.
 
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($253.99 @ Amazon)  CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 240M 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($79.99 @ Newegg)  Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($164.99 @ Micro Center)  Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($84.99 @ Newegg)  Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($74.99 @ Amazon)  Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($51.88 @ OutletPC)  Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card  ($324.99 @ NCIX US)  Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($108.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($86.98 @ Newegg)  Total: $1231.79 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-13 13:29 EST-0500   The main difference with the video card though is just that it has a larger heatsink and more fans, so its got more cooling potential.  This means it'll be quieter / you can overclock more than an MSI card.  I would also consider looking at other cases too, Corsair makes very good cases, I would take a look at the 750D, and personally I think the 760T White is a beautiful case, the full side window is just stunning.  (pic here)

What about this? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/y3J8t6
 
I know I went a little over budget, I just wanted to propose a build I was proud of.  The 500R for that price is quite a deal, it's also in a much higher class in terms of build quality than anything else in that price range.  
 
In this scenario if you have enough cash to upgrade in the next year or two you could use the same board, so that is kind of nice.  Also be aware that only H97 and Z97 will have RAID support.  Also notice I didn't recommend a part that's like red for example, then also suggest a case with blue LEDs.  I like to keep everything looking nice color-wise.
 
Some thoughts on your latest build you posted are:
 
The i3 is not unlocked while the Pentium 3258 is unlocked (meaning you can overclock it).  The i3 has hyper-threading which the 3258 does not have though.  Basically if you overclock, the Pentium is better, if you don't, the i3 is better. I would not recommend MSI boards, they aren't the best for a list of reasons.  I would stick with Asus and Gigabyte (no exp with ASRock but some seem decent..) Your budget is pretty low, I wouldn't spend 30% more on RAM for blue and G.SKILL if it was me but that's your call since it's 50% an aesthetic decision WD Blues are statistically more reliable than Seagate drives but are slower (about 80-100MB/s vs 150-200MB/s depending on drives).  If a Seagate has good reviews on Newegg I usually will buy it, I've never had one die on me that isn't a lemon like 7200.11 was. It's my opinion (and general consensus from conversations) that nVidia has better drives / software than AMD, plus Gigabyte 960 has three fans and a bigger heatsink. That Thermaltake case's build quality is really bad, I would get either a CM 431 or HAF 912 mimimum IMO. EVGA power supplies are just decent, I forget who makes them but they're nothing special (someone at NCIX once told me Seasonic makes them WHICH IS A LIE!), XFX are better since they are made by Seasonic and are priced pretty competitively really.

3 years later you could buy a card for $350 that would be almost as good as two while offering no stuttering/other sli problems. I mean don't "plan" for the power needed for an SLI build unless we're talking like 6 months later. Really. 

I think the point is that this is not the ideal way to purchase 1U pfSense hardware.  If I was Linus I would have purchased these and built it on the video:
http://www.amazon.com/SUPERMICRO-SuperChassis-504-203B-Motherboard-CSE-504-203B/dp/B00EHHCWJO/
http://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-A1SAI-2750F-O-Eight-Motherboard-Combo/dp/B00F0YROSC/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1442195194&sr=1-1&keywords=a1sai-2750f
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-ReadyCache-2-5-Inch-Upgrade-SDSSDRC-032G-G26/dp/B008U3038I/
http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PC3-12800-Notebook-CT2KIT25664BF160B-CT2CP25664BF160B/dp/B005MWQ6WC/enty_browse-bin%3A9729697011%2Cp_n_feature_five_browse-bin%3A673263011%2Cp_72%3A1248879011
 
At least then no dremeling is required and no possibly shorting motherboards will be killed in the making of the film..  Plus the hot glue PSU lol.