TrifectaIII

Well your ssd speeds are definitely not the problem. I'd look for other possible causes for any sluggishness.

That's more a problem with gtaV than it is with your gpu. gtaV is heavily cpu bound, so gpu upgrades can show little to no difference. If you want to see the difference, run gpu benchmarks or run some gpu bound games. Rest assured that your 980ti is significantly more powerful than your 780 was, and at this point it seems likely that it will remain very powerful for a while here, because the first pascal cards are going to be "small" pascal, not "big" pascal (980ti is "big" maxwell)

What does your mobo manual say about that light?

I think you should breadboard, like somebody else in this thread suggested. On top of your mobo box, just build the pc outside the case using only mobo, ram, cpu+heatsink, and psu. See if it boots like that.

I've never dealt with the roccat nyth, but I've been using my logitech g600 for a long time, and I love every part of it. Well, except the horrible braided cable, but that seems to be unavoidable these days, since mouse manufacturers think it adds quality despite braided cables being horrible in every way.

Yeah I don't think its ever sold for the supposed full list price.

You basically couldn't do any better.

It doesn't really matter. If it is giving you the option to quick format, then it's fine to do it. Sometimes with a brand new drive quick format won't work, but in those cases the option won't be available.

Can you try to boot from a disc or a flash drive?

I assume you are actually able to get into the bios by hitting f1? What happens if you just put it into raid mode to try?

Well not too many black motherboards, I think there are a few very cheap black ones from msi (like, ones not meant for any overclocking) and then there is the evga one with horrid power delivery, and that's it. Since you'll probably want to avoid those, I don't think there is another all black board I've come across. For everything else, most motherboard in that price range will have all the things you need. As far as I know the gigabyte one you mentioned is just fine, what were the reviewers critiquing it for? In general, the Asus z170-a that was previously mentioned, along with it's $190 counterpart the z170-pro are both very well regarded, they have all the features most people would want, good overclocking ability, and a very intelligent board layout (in particular the m.2 placement is I think the best I have seen on any board).

Picking a motherboard is all about features and (maybe) look. The mobo doesn't impact performance enough for there to be a "best" one. What do you want in terms of features/io? Do you care about 3.1 type c? Do you need a certain form factor? etc etc etc are all questions you should ask yourself, then find a motherboard that matches those answers.

Nah, that's just the speed that is guaranteed to work. All Haswell-E and Skylake chips say that. Can try to rma the ram since it is not working at specified speed. Or just let it go, since going from 2800 to 3200 is not going to really have any performance impact at all.

Ugh, guess that's the problem with people from different places comparing prices closely like that. For me, everywhere I shop the fury is 20 to 10 dollars cheaper than the nano.

Doesn't sound like this is a sff build. Why spend money on size, when an r9 fury is basically the same price?