grammakisses :
Thankyou for the help, so tonight I am going to buy. I just have a couple final questions, why the different PSU? Also, I do not understand what you mean by "possible incompatibility between a DC i5 and that z87 motherboard". If I encountered a problem it would just resolve itself?? Thankyou very much!
-i was trying to save you some $$ to fit the SSD in, so i swapped out the psu for a similar quality unit for less $$; no harm in keeping the psu you chose if that's the one your heart is set on. There is nothing wrong with the psu you chose.
-DC is haswell refresh and technically the z97 chipset was written for it. z87 was writen for the origional haswell release. It's the same socket and basically the same CPU, with almost identical chipset features. z87 motherboards can work with a DC cpu like your i5-4690k, however their origional bios won't recognise the cpu because it's older then the chips.
So potentially you could put that cpu into that z87 motherboard i selected and the pc might not boot.
However, that motherboard has a feature called Bios Flashback. What you do is load the latest bios from Asus for that motherboard onto a usb thumb drive. stick it into the "white" usb port on the back of the motherboard, and hold down the bios flashback button for like 10 seconds until it starts to blink.
then just wait for the blinking to stop, and the bios is updated. you can now boot the pc.
However, don't let that intimidate you, Asus is pretty good about updating the bios on their motherboard before they ship from the factory to the reseller. I got a z87 motherboard for my own DC i5 (Asus Maximus Gene VI) and it came with the most recent bios already pre-loaded so it worked right out of the box with my i5, no updates required.
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