Oops...
2 years and a few thousand dollars later I'm glad to say my personal gaming rig is complete, for now. maybe just one more upgrade..... 
The final build list:
3770k 4.6ghz 1.288v
maximus v gene
evga 780ti classified 1320mhz/7500mhz 1.336v
samsung 840 evo 256g
western digital veliciraptor 1tb
corsair dominator platinum 8g 1600 cas 8.
corsair h 100
corsair ax 750
corsair 350 d
ben q xl2420z 144hz
corsair m-45
I started off with a medium range pc before, 2500k, thermaltake case, psu and fans, asus z77 board and a gtx 660. this was ok for a few months but I realized, there is more out there...
Nicer Board, New Case, alright we're rockin!
this was good enough for another few months, until a few friends got into overclocking their 670's and I had to join the fun, I ran one for a few months and two for the last month or so. I still love the 670 more than any card to this day, it oc'ed like a beast and hit all the right points in the sweet spot, price , performance, aesthetics...!
after the 670 run I wanted just a single card with 4g to handle modded games and help maintain high fps as a single card solution, sold the 670's, got a 680 4g.
notice how sloppy my cabling still is?
this setup was awesome, but I thought I had to upgrade again....... new psu, new gpu, 2500k dialed in at 5.0ghz should be enough right? 
I had the 780 on Skyn3t and at 1228 / 7000 mhz 1.212V for nearly 6 months, the longest I've stayed with a configuration so far...
By this time I had a new desk and was getting tired of the bulky 650D,
a great case, one of the best made ones I've owned still.. but it was too big, too heavy and I didnt use any of it's features making it necessary
enter the Matx stage.
Talked my best friend out of his flawless ASUS maximus V Gene matx board, trading him my Z77 pro , ram and some cash ( he won on this deal by about $50 )
needed a case, looked for a month or so, coming to the corsair 350D as my choice. a neat, tidy little bugger 
now with a 780 and a 2500k at 5.0, I figured what else could I get out of this system? 1080p was covered, high settings were covered, I was only stuck at 60fps and that seemed to be a problem now for fps, when it had been ok for so long before .....
Enter the Ben q XL2420Z, 144hz.
wow.
144 hz. that's all I will say.
this was probaby the biggest upgrade I have done so far, going up to 100 + fps took my gaming experience to new heights, in terms of skill and enjoyment...!
but two is always better than one right?
twins.
now I could game and data log / read / multi task like a champ.... 
or so I thought,
the i5 was begining to hold me back in some applications and games, even if at a great frequency, the cache size and limit of 4 cores was showing, regardless of what anyone says for gaming an i7 IS the better choice....
Might have been bored, Might have been crazy,
but a 780 ti classified seemed what I wanted.. a quick order and a few days later, back on the build table...
this time with more " uumph "
hey, looks like I've got this cabling nonsense figured out, as well as ditching mechanical drives for an ssd...! not bad for my first 1 1/2 year into pc's.
with all of the " Hardware " taken care of for now it was time to touch up on the little things.... details I guess...
got bored again, dmm time.
Ln2 goodies in progress, as well as an lga 2011 board............. it never ends does it?
