Yeah, a bud of mine built a machine with a bunch of Be Quiet stuff and I was really impressed, he decided on their Base 800 case. Which is nice, but I'm looking for something a little more compact since it's not going to be the only machine in the room. And a quick update...

I just got off with Newegg, I had to rma the motherboard and ram I'd ordered earlier. Would not post, everything was working fine (the PSU I got is a bamf btw). But the processor/motherboard just would not function. So, apparently somewhere between here and there one of the posts was bent on the CPU. I verified that BEFORE I sent it. So, a $180 problem for me. Which REALLY grinds my gears. I went ahead and got them to do a refund on the motherboard, deciding if I want to switch to an i5 instead of the AMD based system I was going to do before.

My current thoughts are:

MSI Z97-G45 + a Core i5-4590, if I do that I'll have to wait on getting the water cooler added. But being Intel, I don't think it'll be as big a deal either. Thoughts? It's either that or pick up an AMD FX 6350 and the MSI board listed above.