helping my friend with a build (triple AAA gaming / heavy Photoshop)

[Heatghost]

Ok so one of my friends is building a PC this week and this is what we've come up with (he does heavy PS editing as he works in design, he wants to be able to game in 1080p+ on all the Triple A titles) 

 

Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon 4.0GHz 8MB Retail Box
Noctua NH-D15 Multi Socket PWM CPU cooler
ASRock H97 Fatal1ty Performance LGA1150 ATX Motherboard
Kingston 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR3 HyperX Fury Black C10 1866MHz
OCZ Arc 100 120GB 2.5" SSD
WD Black WD2003FZEX 3.5" 2TB 64MB 7200RPM Desktop HDD
eVGA GeForce GTX980 SC ACX 2.0 Cooler 4GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI 3xDisplayPort
Asus DRW-24D3ST 24x Black SATA DVD Writer OEM
Thermaltake V71 Black Core Full Tower Case w/ Side Panel Window
eVGA SuperNOVA G1 650W 80PLUS Gold Power Supply
Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM 64Bit
Corsair Gaming K95 RGB Backlit Mechanical Keyboard (MX Brown)
Corsair Gaming M65 RGB Black Laser Gaming Mouse
Asus VS247HV 23.6" Full HD WS 5MS LED Monitor
Razer Goliathus 2013 Extended 'Speed Edition' Mouse Mat
Astro Gaming A40 Gen.2 Gaming Headset with MixAmp PRO 

 

Any input is welcome especially for the monitor and headset just cant go super expensive (3D not needed, 1440p Maybe if its cheap, No 4K ,at least not yet)

[Trik'Stari]

An all in one water cooler for overclocking performance if he does any kind of rendering,

 

Edit: Didn't see the SSD, maybe a bigger SSD?

 

Gonna need a whole nother one for dat star citizen

[Imakuni]

Budget and location plz.

[brob]

A Z97 motherboard is a far better match to the cpu and cpu cooler.

 

A larger ssd. You might consider the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB.

[Imakuni]

A larger ssd. You might consider the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB.

I completely disagree. No need for 250gbs, 128 is enough. I live with it, and still have plenty of free space left.

[Heatghost]

australia, he has a total of 3k to 3.5k to spend (that includes the desktop and peripherals) 

[Heatghost]

Budget and location plz.

australia, he has a total of 3k to 3.5k to spend (that includes the desktop and peripherals) 

 

were using this https://www.ple.com.au/CustomiseMyBuild.aspx?KitId=610104

[Heatghost]

An all in one water cooler for overclocking performance if he does any kind of rendering,

 

Edit: Didn't see the SSD, maybe a bigger SSD?

 

Gonna need a whole nother one for dat star citizen

he wants minimal maintenance so i recomended him the noctua because it cools just as well as the h100i and 110 , and hes not super fussed with looks 

[brob]

I completely disagree. No need for 250gbs, 128 is enough. I live with it, and still have plenty of free space left.

 

The build will be used for professional photoshop work. At the very least any unused space on the ssd will make for a very good scratch area. If the budget could take it, I would suggest an even larger ssd.

[Heatghost]

The build will be used for professional photoshop work. At the very least any unused space on the ssd will make for a very good scratch area. If the budget could take it, I would suggest an even larger ssd.

I should mention he does this triple redundancy back up thing where he has  2 ssd external drives from work , with all his work on them and one massive hdd and (because hes a frkn control freak) he burns all that stuff on dvds incase any drives fail, so i really doubt he needs a bigger ssd he told me he wanted to put diablo and csgo on the ssd along with any current work hes doing and use the hdd for long term storage  for work and any other games.

hes not your average consumer

[Trik'Stari]

he wants minimal maintenance so i recomended him the noctua because it cools just as well as the h100i and 110 , and hes not super fussed with looks 

An AIO requires no real extra maintenance over an air cooler, just dust cleaning.