First off; holy shit dude, you're amazing.
To address your main concerns, I am aware of the GTX 970's memory issues. However, it still is a great card that has impressive benchmarks to me. Also, I'll be playing in 1080p until 4k actually is affordable to me so I don't have to worry about running ridiculous resolutions (for now) hahaha. Also, I've always been an nvidia boy, so I doubt I would go for AMD this time around either (however, thank you for the though and input man!)
I literally threw the first Bitfenix comrade listing up there that I saw just to kinda get across the fact that it is the case I wanted. I'll definitely be getting the windowless black version from NCIXUS.
I will also be getting the 256 GB version of the SSD and the 750 watt power supply you recommended. Getting another GTX 970 for SLI later on is a distinct possibility. Why not splurge a little for this?
Again, thanks a million for the help man. I can't wait to order all these parts!
Edit: Here is the revised parts list. Am I good to go?
Looks fine to me. Enjoy your new PC.
I have been doing alot of research on x99 builds including parts custom sleeving watercooling etc... at this point I want to hold off on the x99 build until the end of the year in order to waite and see what new parts companies will have.
For now I want to build something more or less for practicing sleeving/water cooling techniques. I will be buying a caselabs case for this build and also the future build. For this one I am leaning towards an s8 for the next one will be going with a sth10.
In the process of buying all tools and materials for sleeving and also a monsoon acrylic bending kit. I have plenty of other tools since I work in the electrical trade.
Will someone be able to recommend a build for around 1000 us$, not including all watercooling parts and peripherals. I'm thinking a z97 build would be best for now. Modular power supply as I stated I want to do my own custom wiring. Single or double gpu whichever fits better into price range. Will be doing sli or crossfire in future build so not a big deal.
As mentioned this will be a build I will use for gaming but also for practicing overclocking, custom wiring, watercooling etc... thanks in advance.
Oh wow, $1000+ for a Z97 test run for a X99 PC one year later, both with Caselabs cases? I'm jealous, I'm still rocking a mostly 6 year old PC here. Unfortunately, I think you will have to spend more than that - the case is $400 which does take up about 40% of the $1000 budget, and the processor will have to be the overclockable i5 4690K which is about $215, unless you happen to live near a Microcenter and can buy one in-store for $200 flat. That's another ~20% or so of the budget. And because you need a moderately decent motherboard for overclocking, that's another ~15% or so. Normally a cheaper $100 motherboard would be recommended, but because you have the custom water cooling loop and other higher performance parts, I assume you want to be able to overclock higher than what a cheaper motherboard would be capable of. That's ~75% of the $1000 budget, at least $750 that cannot be avoided. You won't have much budget left for the RAM, power supply, storage drive, and graphics card.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($215.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($134.98 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($66.98 @ Newegg)
Other: CaseLabs Mercury S8 ($359.95)
Total: $891.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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You may want to consider a cheaper case to cut down on costs. There's only about $110 left for a graphics card.