Rate my RIG Please. My goal is: Gaming 1080p Max settings, High FPS, 144hz, & Oculus Rift VR.

JamRam83

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MOBO: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition LGA 1150 Intel
CPU: i5-4690k Devil’s Canyon OC’d to 4.0gz
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0 OC’d to c1317mhz, m1906mhz, b1468mhz
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 running @ 2133 MHz
HHD: Seagate Hybrid Drive 2TB MLC/8GB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb SSHD
PSU: CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W.ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V
CPU COOLER: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO with 120 mm PWM Fan
CASE: NZXT Phantom Enthusiast ATX Full Tower
MONITOR: Acer XB270H 27-inch NVIDIA G-SYNC (1920 x 1080) @ 144hz
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

Again my goal is: Gaming 1080p Max settings, High FPS, 144hz, & Oculus Rift VR.

My current upgrades will be Oculus Rift whenever my pre-order ships of course. And will be upgrading to GTX 1070 as soon as EVGA releases their version. Any additional upgrade/s I should be doing you think may help? Any advice/opinions welcome, please hit me!
 
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Looks spot on once you go for the GTX 1070. I'd get an SSD, and leave the HDD as a storage/steam/game library drive. The ram is apparently the sweet spot for Haswell but you could do with higher frequencied ram like 2400MHz and they are cheaper than the 2133MHz you have picked up.

You could swap out the cooler for something beefier like this.

Lutfij

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Looks spot on once you go for the GTX 1070. I'd get an SSD, and leave the HDD as a storage/steam/game library drive. The ram is apparently the sweet spot for Haswell but you could do with higher frequencied ram like 2400MHz and they are cheaper than the 2133MHz you have picked up.

You could swap out the cooler for something beefier like this.
 
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JamRam83

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Interesting, Ok I like your advice, SSD & faster RAM along with that sweet CPU cooler. Great, cheap find btw on 2400MHz RAM. Maybe I'll push my 4.0ghz OC on CPU a little higher to maybe 4.2ghz. Thanks for helping me into the next direction for better performance. Thanks for those links ;)