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Ok so as I'm upgrading the various parts to my PC I'm essentially able to make another PC with the stuff that I'm taking out. But while I feel I am making informed ideas and decisions I would still like to ask people who know what they're talking about. This is my first time building a PC and so far I feel I'm doing a good job with it.

So what I currently have is:

Mobo: MSI Gaming 5 (Z97 LGA 1150)
CPU: I7-4790k Haswell (4.0-4.4 ghz)
RAM: 4 g. skill sniper 4gb @ 1866 9-10-9-28 (total of 16 gb)
gfx card: 1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (EVGA)
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 RX 750W
HDD: too much freaking space but i love them.
Case: Antec Three Hundred Illusion

So what I want to do is acquire myself the MSI gtx 970 gaming, reading a lot about it and it seems like its the best gtx 900 gfx card. But for the life of me I can't really find many good reviews on a tower case, I can't really go past a height of 17-18 inches. and looking at the dimensions of the graphics card I want, and finding an appropriately sized case, I've came to the conclusion that an Apevia X-Hermes or X-Dreamer4, would work nicely, only because they aren't taller than I'd like and they have the most favorable reviews. And since I'm selling to my friend all the stuff that is coming out, (so far the mobo cpu ram and gfx card) I'm going to need a PSU HDD and case (which is where the Apevias come in).

Side-question: Do the heatsinks that come stock with a CPU normally suck or something? Because I notice that my bios and speccy say that my cpu is running 60+ celsius!
 
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Hi there. For a start, 60C is fairly normal. What's the temperature at full song?

Have you considered other case form factors? My SFF case, at 14 liters, will hold all of your stuff, although you'd need a mini-ITX motherboard, and the larger, Thermaltake Core V1 at about 18 liters will handle even more, as will the Silverstone FT03-mini.

You could also consider HTPC cases which will hold your GPU, but in a totally different form factor.

you need a good PSU from this list:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html

and from what you have said, you can get by with 550W if it is a good PSU, even less if you are not overclocking. There are dozens of HDDs 7200rpm and 64Mb of cache are the modern...
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Hi there. For a start, 60C is fairly normal. What's the temperature at full song?

Have you considered other case form factors? My SFF case, at 14 liters, will hold all of your stuff, although you'd need a mini-ITX motherboard, and the larger, Thermaltake Core V1 at about 18 liters will handle even more, as will the Silverstone FT03-mini.

You could also consider HTPC cases which will hold your GPU, but in a totally different form factor.

you need a good PSU from this list:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html

and from what you have said, you can get by with 550W if it is a good PSU, even less if you are not overclocking. There are dozens of HDDs 7200rpm and 64Mb of cache are the modern minimum standards, and you might want to consider a SSD for operating system and some applications.

The case is a personal choice.
 
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Well see the thing is that I already have the motherboard so switching to a mini-itx would be a bit costly, considering I got the RAM CPU and mobo all in less than a month ago. I actually have two HDDs, one is a WD 1TB and the other is Seagate 2TB.

Really when it comes to a case, I guess I should ask if there's any specific brand I should avoid because of overall crappiness of their products or the brands I should favor more because of good quality builds. I thought that an HTPC case was smaller than regular desktop (conventional) cases? If I were to get one could I put one or two monitors on top of it? (I'll obviously need to measure my desk top out) Will I come across heating problems because of not enough airflow?

My CPU temp, I guess i'm just used to having a bit lower since my old one had a bigger heatsink and kept it at like 40 I think.

Lastly: thanks for that list right there, it really helps!
 
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OK then. I've given you my PSU advice (Antec, Seasonic, or some other good one) and I'm running an i5 and a GTX970 on 450 good Watts, but something like the Seasonic Eco 520 is a great choice.

HDD, WD Caviar Blue or Seagate Barracuda are the budget leaders at the moment.

Crucial MX100s are great price/performance point for SSD.

Case, your choice.
 
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