Jafo

BTW...proof of point re longevity....my OS HD [the M.2] has been running for 1103 hours...or 1 month 15 days and 23 hours ....and that is all since the keyboard was last charged ...

Ah....link worked this time...looks 'trendy'...but not into all that backlight bling...more interested in material/construction/and switch function feel....and a Bluetooth interface with long battery life and easy recharge...the Edge does all that...only minor issue is not having the numpad section.

Life is what happens to you while you are making plans.....

If I wait till the day before I die I'd have the best/fastest machine I could ever have....and I'd have it for a day....

Life is short.  Live hard....die young...and leave a beautiful corpse....

....OK...so I left it too long myself....

Yeah, I know, I'm not getting any younger, but it would only be about 4 - 5 months... IF I have to wait... depending on availability and price, of course.

It could well be the Extreme mobo has USB 3.1 at a decent price around August or thereabouts, in which case I'll not wait.  It's just that new tech tends to be a bit expensive early on and waiting a few months is often worthwhile, price-wise.

As for leaving a beautiful corpse, nah, not possible.  The old girl reckons I was a beautiful baby, but after that....  Besides, I've broken it too many times in too many places to leave anything remotely beautiful... and for the various bit of metal I have inserted here and there, it'd be wise that funeral goers do not have magnets upon their persons.

... maybe he's fearful they'll be the ones getting staked?

i would imagine it'll have to be some big ass magnets though for things to go flying... 

Nice pc Jafo! Case looks sick. Reminds me of all these other modular cases that are coming out or being prototyped -http://www.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2014-01-07-image-22.jpg

Yup, I have to agree there.  The modular case looks okay, but would it house addons such as Soundcards, large GPU's, etc?  And what about a half dozen or more HDDs, or a 1200w+ PSU?  While it looks nice, I'd be concerned my choice of components wouldn't fit.  With my version of the Level 10 there's more than enough room for thr largest graphics cards - 3 in SLI if I wanted - and another 6 expansion cards if needed... and it'll accommodate the largest PSU with room to spare for a 120mm bottom fan as well.  Yeah, it was a great [second] choice.

I watch a lot of mecha series and what Jafo is trying to build is GN Armour, or Armour Mobile suit, or artillery type/Destroyer type computer.

In multiplayer terms we call such a build the "Overkill the noobs build." There usually over powered monsterosities that are not green to the environment because the performance per watt is not fully utilised by the games we play (wait for dx12 for you GTX 9XX) and they draw an immense amount of power to run all those components at maximum speed.

In mecha series GN ARMORs tend to be slow moving but heavy on defence with long range offensive capabilities. In this case we are talking about high frame-rates, or unlocked frame-rates that allow sniping easily at an incredible range. Coupled with a monitor with a an insanely high refresh rate then you get a long range killing machine He can also turn off virtual memory with high amounts of ram, rendering such a feature worthless and blaze data through the rams without touching the SSDs for any extras.

Defence comes only in the way of a machine that can run a large screen estate that can set a higher resolution and have a larger glimpse of the battlefield. ARMOUR type units are usually in boss episodes or episodes with cliff hangers that put the challengers through a tough time. Only skill wins here because Jafo won't have so much distraction from bottlenecks. 

I have seen first hand what these kinds of machines can do to Noobs when in the hands of a pro online because they will be so much crying about a cheater in the game. Its actually a pro whose skill and assimilation into the game is at its max because of no performance hiccups. Only internet lag can save noobs from "Overkill the noobs builds!"

There's a lot of brain damage in that post, but after I caved my skull in I may have grasped some of it.  It appears as though he's comparing your computer build to some sort of elite game strategy.

Rats....I was hoping he was just calling me 'young'...

no jafo.. your not a noob but you are building something that annihilates noobs. 

Jafo iam 

Jafo is this true? You've actually completed this build and are using it in multiplayer games? Explain your experience and feel? What are the final Specs under the hood?

 so your totally ignoring the article which says the "systems" have caught up with the hardware???

irrelevant whether you boot once a day or once a year, if you have to reboot three or four times to get this  machine going something is definitely wrong. I would think you would be more curious to get to solve the problem and get back with us as to how to prevent these circumstances.