AbeC916

Oh cool a NAS will work as well. I think believe the default VM network settings should allow you to connect to your NAS inside your VM provided your host computer is connected to the network that has the NAS :).
 
Nope it isn't over simplified at all that is exactly how you want to do it.
 
Edit,
Just remember make the VHD file bigger then the original physical drive. CloneZilla doesn't like to restore images to smaller drives it will give you an error. 

It needs to be the same size or bigger as the drive/partition size of the drive that was imaged. (Sorry I don't think I am explaining this very well.)

For example if I imaged my 1TB hard drive that 1TB hard drive may only have 100GB of data on it the cloneZilla image will only be 100GB but CloneZilla will only let me restore that image to a 1TB drive. So whatever the drive size that image is of, you need to make the drive your restoring the image it the same or slightly bigger then original drive.

Again I don't think I am explaining it very well. Hopefully that make some sense.

You want the SAMBA option. I would use the ip address of the NAS. 

I can't think of a way to restore the image to the VHD, CloneZilla doesn't have a program you can run from within windows as far as I am aware. You would need to run it from the boot disk. And I don't think CloneZilla supports VHD files, maybe I am wrong.
 
@AbeC916

Where is the CloneZilla image located? If it is on a USB drive then it should be easy just create a new VM with a virtual drive the same size or bigger as the physical drive the clonezilla image is of (hopefully that makes sense). Attached the USB drive to the VM and download and attached the ISO of clonezilla to the vm as well. Start up the vm do your normally clonezilla restore, and you should be done. You can boot into windows using the VM or you can shut it down and mount the VM VHD file using disk management. 

You could create a new VHD in the windows 10 disk management (More actions -> Create VHD) then restore the image to there. From there you could either mount the vhd in the VM and boot, or simply mount it in Win10 and browse to the files you need.

If your doing vms, Just use the img to make the vhd and run the vm from there. If you need backup or restore for vms, use checkpoints.

Running any mods? or maybe a save with 1000 wheels of cheese on a hill somewhere?

Ok, that would be because Bethesda's games are all normally locked at 60fps via built in vsync due to the physics engine not working as it should above that (it runs faster the higher the FPS, like old DOS games from 30 years ago, which is stupid and lazy IMHO).

Get the unofficial patch, because Bethesda is Bethesda, and Bethesda always releases games riddled with bugs and relies on the modding community to fix them. Low fps in areas and stuttering occur in all of their games-even Morrowind on my current desktop (funnily enough, the issues are actually worse than when I play it on my Pentium III desktop-FX5500 256MB@300MHz core, PIII @1.12GHz 1.8V), 512MB SDRAM).

What area are you seeing the dips in? And what is the rest of your rig?
 
Edit: If its Whiterun-dips are normal, even at 1080p ultra (plus mods) with the load only at 50%, the clockspeed (due to the way my GTX 970 boosts) at 1354MHz and my i7 4790K running at 4.5GHz across all cores. And that's after replacing the HD texture pack with the optimized textures mod (less vRAM usage, higher quality textures, far less CTD, higher average and minimum performance).

Is the part new?

Let the fan cool down, then lower the fan speed. Tell me if it as hot as before.

Indeed you do! Sorry to hear.

What FPS when its tearing?

What FPS when its tearing?

If it's in a PCI/e slot and not a M.2 slot (using chipset lanes) then you're screwed. 8x + 8x is required for SLI by decree of nVidia's drivers.
 
If this was your original setup choice, then Haswell-E would have been the better choice, for not much more money too considering you have a 6700K.
 
Finally,
No. Don't you dare. Not only is buying another 970 just an awful idea, but unless you're ABSOLUTELY certain that SLI is going to work in all the games you want it for, without issue, then just sell and buy a 980Ti. It will be much more reliable.

sli requires X8 X8

no, your motherboard probably provides x4 or x8 PCX bandwidth in addition to your CPU's 16x
check the motherboard specs to be sure

Corsair does have a very good warranty. I have had an H100i for a few years. It never leaked, but I think something is wrong with mine... You should be just fine. Corsair is renound in my world for reliability.

I got GTA V. I sent you an request