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400mm fan. That's it. That's the whole case. 

Oh dang, I didn't respect a reply from the god bod @LinusTech. Thanks for taking the time! Reading back I came off a bit more antagonistic than I meant, I was truly just curious. As an unsolicited suggestion, I truly would love to see videos more clearly highlighted that are floatplane exclusive (or timed exclusives) as it just makes my life easier when scanning over content I might've already caught on YouTube.   
 
I know you met approximately 10,000 people at LTX 2019, and I was one of them. We chatted for about 30 seconds about starting my own case company and how I would absolutely destroy you at scrapyard wars (still true). Been working on an LLC, meeting with vendors, finding parts, and testing designs for the past year, and my first case is coming out in a few months, so just thank you for the inspiration and the encouragement, it meant a lot. 

The truth is the streaming platform space is extremely crowded and what makes sense to serve the fans of LMG and its close collaborators might not make sense to try to expand more broadly right now - or maybe ever.
 
The idea behind floatplane was always that it'll either soar or float. It seems like it's more floating at this point, and we're okay with that. 
 
The main value proposition for our viewers is that they get early access (usually), DRM-free downloads, and exclusive behind the scenes content. Some (like you) would support us even without any of those things, but we want to make sure we're giving something that we think has a lot of value in return 🙂
 
Floatplane definitely gets the best look into our inner workings.
 
LInus

Oh dang, I didn't respect a reply from the god bod @LinusTech. Thanks for taking the time! Reading back I came off a bit more antagonistic than I meant, I was truly just curious. As an unsolicited suggestion, I truly would love to see videos more clearly highlighted that are floatplane exclusive (or timed exclusives) as it just makes my life easier when scanning over content I might've already caught on YouTube.   
 
I know you met approximately 10,000 people at LTX 2019, and I was one of them. We chatted for about 30 seconds about starting my own case company and how I would absolutely destroy you at scrapyard wars (still true). Been working on an LLC, meeting with vendors, finding parts, and testing designs for the past year, and my first case is coming out in a few months, so just thank you for the inspiration and the encouragement, it meant a lot. 

Can't speak for everyone else here, but my diet and exercise regime could use a real kick into gear. Who doesn't want to feel their best meeting tons of new people? On top of that we'll be walking around for hours and then crushing it all night in the convention center. Being in prime physical condition couldn't hurt. 
 
So I'm issuing a challenge to all the LTX Convention Goers who want to get into shape: we have 149 days until the convention, that's a good chunk of time to shed some extra pounds or build some healthy new habits. 
 
Whatever your goal, as long as it contributes towards being healthier/fitter, it slots here. Whatever that means for you. I'm shooting to lose 40lbs before the convention and start cooking more and eating out less (I'm hoping my 2XL expo shirt doesn't fit at all). 
 
If you're in, describe your goal and commit to posting at least once a week to track your progress and report in with the team here. If there's enough interest, I'll start cobbling together some google sheets to track our progress as a group week by week. 
 
Only commit if you're willing to really "go for it." Like, unironically wearing socks and sandals "go for it."
 
Best of luck to everyone, super amped for LTX 2019! 

I don't post often on these forums, but I have to say I feel compelled to throw another supporting voice behind Linus: 
 
Through a process of "tech-osmosis," I have learned so much from Linus' videos, I honestly don't know how I kept up to date with accurate information before I started watching. That alone is unbelievably valuable. For me, it makes the argument over from the outset. I literally could not pay someone to teach me as much as Linus has, making any other factors irrelevant.   
 
But let's assume he's taking these massive windfalls from various tech corporations and everything he's ever said is tainted by malicious corruption. Is his opinion really ever that far off base? I honestly cannot recall a single review where Linus is glorifying/criticizing something so beyond the general opinion/consensus on a product. Can you? The only exception I can recall where his opinion varied vastly from other critics would be the Apple Watch review. But in that instance, the baseline opinion was from tech reviewers taking money from Apple or afraid of being put on the Apple "blacklist."
 
Or, for God's sake, how many times has he taken shots at the people paying him? He straight up makes fun of the corporate board of Best Buy for thirty seconds in a 7 minute video. 
 
This is all insane to me. I hope Linus doesn't get deterred by a few naysayers. Criticism is fine, but a witch hunt is another thing. 

If you guys really think someone who runs a business with (8? 9? how many is it now Linus?) employees, is going to have a changed opinion because they get to keep a 600usd phone.. You guys need to wake up and try being in a real business, and not serve food at the local McDonalds.
 
No one in their right mind would sacrifice their whole integrity, and the jobs of potentially 10+ people for something like that.

As you've both noted, this is a business.
 
One that relies on having an actively engaged audience that trusts me.
 
So consider this: Would I be a smart a businessman if I purposely deceived my audience for $100? Did that strategy ever make any sense in the history of the universe?
 
Let's assume the revenue of my company grows in a linear fashion with views (and therefore influence), which it basically does.
 
And we are kicking ass right now.
 
If I am as smart as I think I am, I would look at that graph and think to myself "hmm I could take $100 today to sell out, destroying that audience and making myself worthless to advertisers, or I could get $200 or $300 next year if my team and I can keep rocking on the way we are"
 
For very short term gain, I could definitely cash out of this thing, but even if I was a total scumbag who was just in it to make a buck and drive a lambo or whatever, I'd be an idiot to compromise the integrity of the channel for a few bucks today! I'm 29 and I've got a lot of years left in the gas tank.
 
It's very strange to me that you think I have more incentive to sell product today than I did when I worked at a retailer as as Salesman and then Product Manager. My literal job description was to sell product. The only reason I ever said anything negative about anything was the same reason I do it today. Because I want people to buy the right stuff. I'm the same person today that I was 8 years ago when I started making videos.
 
And a last note. We don't deny who our sponsors are or what the money is for. Why would you even bring up the Best Buy video? I was SO straightforward about the Best Buy sponsorship of the notebook back to school guide! I said in the first minute of the video that Best Buy had us make the video. And the rest of what I said (the fact that they let us pick any notebooks we wanted for the guide off their site) was also true.
 
So what's the issue here exactly? You don't agree with the laptops I chose? Then just say so. And I'll either politely disagree with you because I picked ones I liked, or I'll say "good point I didn't see that one. I'm only human"
 
edit: Just for lulz here's some more transparency about my job at NCIX: https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/linus-sebastian/52/a07/578
 
I'm not hiding this stuff.

A lot of assumptions being made here.
We don't take money to do reviews. We never have.
We take money to do advertisements, which are never labeled as reviews.
NVIDIA provided the graphics cards (and Cooler Master sent cases and coolers, ASUS sent motherboards, Intel sent CPUs, Kingston sent SSDs and RAM, Swiftech sent water cooling gear) for our editing workstations for product placement in the whole room water cooling series of videos we produced featuring this hardware extensively.
In the grand scheme of things, $6000 of graphics cards (don't imagine that's their BOM cost on them either) is a great deal for 1-2M impressions on a series of videos about using them.. but those videos were NOT a review. They were about a clearly sponsored (we said it was more than once) outrageous project.
As for sending "keeper" vs "loaner" units of hardware, yeah for many products we just don't do loaners anymore, but more than anything else this is to do with me not feeling like it's worth my time to play email tag for shipping labels and spend an hour driving to FedEX and filling out stupid international bill of landing and commercial invoice nonsense over like a $100 item that costs more to send back than to just not bother with anyway.
That and quite frankly even a negative review (for some reason) often generates a lot of sales for the manufacturer.. so as far as I'm concerned they can eat the cost of the item and I'll do whatever I want with it when we're done reviewing it - whether that's continuing to use it personally (Pebble Steel and iPhone 6 come to mind) - or re-visiting it only when we need to re-do our comparative numbers (here's a lesson on why this is necessary and we can't just re-use old numbers)
And on the subject of the Pebble and iPhone 6 - these are both items that were NOT provided by the manufacturer. One was purchased for my own use and the other was provided by a separate sponsor who makes skins for phones (dBrand), but I didn't necessarily mention this at the time because who cares? It doesn't colour my impressions of the device.
Here's an item I wasn't allowed to keep and won one of the two editor's choice awards I've ever given out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1uj6wQTu58
Here's an item was allowed to keep that I ripped apart saying it was worse across the board than the two similar products from other manufacturers that I compared it against: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O1aCNrjV64
Here's an item I was allowed to keep that I basically ripped apart on camera and sent it back anyway because it had so little value to me I didn't even want to give it to a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3AgcltUM9s
And I could do this all day..
You may notice that most of the items we review we are fairly positive about. There is a reason for this, and it has nothing to do with being paid to review it.
I don't generally bother to review stuff that I already know is stupid junk.
The bottom line is this. You can either trust me or not trust me. Ultimately that's your deal. My job is to do what I do, and the people who recognize it for what it is - my opinion being given to you - will follow, and the others can go find someone who maybe they think "hasn't sold out" but might just "happen to agree with them" to listen to. Enjoy.

i think the 4690k will be ok for light editing. looks like a good build

You should be able to overclock the CPU to match the 4790k and still have acceptable temps. Also, I think your case was way too expensive for your budget.
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($219.29 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($28.99 @ Micro Center)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory  ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.94 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($52.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  ($354.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: OCZ ZT 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  ($18.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $999.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-07 14:54 EST-0500

The ROG Swift will have a full 8-bit TN panel, so color reproduction will be improved over the usual 6-bit offerings (vg248qe included). I'm not aware of anyone else making 1440p 8-bit TN panels.
 
That said, the benefits of g-sync and ulmb are enough to overlook color reproduction deficiencies for gaming.  I spent some time calibrating mine, and got it to a serviceable level compared to my IPS panel.

I had a similar decision, wait or go for 780ti. I went for it. Honestly, the thing that put me over the edge was the $50 off the nvidia shield deal. The shield is right up my alley as a device.
 
But if you want to see the things I considered check this out below (this is all hearsay and speculation from me, don't take what anyone is saying about maxwell at their word, no one really knows):
 
1. It seems like Maxwell is going to basically be better energy efficiency rather than a full fledged upgrade. It seems like they've been having a hard time moving to the new die model (NOT to say it won't have a performance increase, I just don't think it's going to be the leap that Kepler was)
 
2. I too play at 1080p and have no intention moving up for a long time. I'm much more excited for G-Sync than I am for 4k or even 2k. I don't really care all that much about resolution upgrades at this point, I honestly even have trouble telling the difference between 720p and 1080p (albeit I don't have very great vision, so take that as it is). 
 
3. The 780 you are looking at will be relevant for a very long time. Hell, I still game with my 9800GT on my old machine. But the nice thing about buying a really high-end card is future-proofing. I know some people don't like to hear it, but to me, it makes a ton of sense to buy a really high end card, and then a few years down the line SLI it for 1/5 the price. 
 
4. Think about this for Maxwell: let's say the flagship cards come out which, at the very earliest is going to be the end of Q2. Then you wait a month to see the consensus, is it any good? Is it worth the price? Then you wait a month for a non-reference card. Let's be honest, reference coolers just don't cut it anymore. Then you have to wait a month to see which one is any good. By that time, there will be another thing just around the corner. The point is, there's ALWAYS something to wait for. Always. 
 
That's my take on it. You got to do what's best for you, maybe my concerns flat out don't matter to how you want to game. That's totally your choice. Don't let anyone else make it for you.