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Need a second opinion on my gaming build

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18 minutes ago

I came to this site for help on a gaming build and you guys knocked it out of the park.

I have found my build that I settled on I just want a a second and third opinion on the build.

What I was looking for in the build.
I'm looking for a good hard core gaming machine with playing games like the new dragon age with atleast ultra settings. But still be able edit video and audio(the editing will be very little on videos and almost none on audio.) im doing a podcast and would like to be able to record and upload audio to iTunes with ease but gaming is the main focus here.

Basically what I'm asking is this build going to give me what I want as a hardcore gaming machine and still allow for podcast recording and simple YouTube uploads most videos will be video versions of the podcast.

I'm located in the US and my budget for the build was $1000.

Any changes or opinions on the current build would be helpful.



PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wHVGdC
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wHVGdC/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($248.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PERFORMANCE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($90.91 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($79.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($349.99 @ B&H)
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($24.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($16.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1036.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-16 22:07 EDT-0400

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6 minutes ago

any reason youd wanna game with a xeon? you have no harddrive. you might wanna join the 21st century and get a blu-ray player.
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3 minutes ago

Why Xeon ? Go with a i5 4690k , its overclock able and you can get it around 200$ or a little more and its the same in performance (or better IMO) , and you can get a Z97 chipset mother board of asrock for around a 100$ and it allows over clocking , also you need an HDD of 1TB for around 70$ at least otherwise 120gb ssd will be filled soon.
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