Well done .... but a few tidbits to consider ...
Case - The HAF 932 was prolly the best case around ... 5 years ago. But it's gotten a bit long in the tooth and is eclipsed by more modern designs. For the price, The Enthoo Luxe is a better choice.
RAM - Tho 1600 RAM has dropped a lot in price the last 2 weeks, I would look at 2133 and other speeds and weigh the cost versus performance differences.
GFX - The G1 is a great performing card, tho it has a rather high % of unhappy users with more than 1 in 5 giving it an extremely negative 1 egg rating. If this concerns you, look at the MSI gaming 4G which is the runner up performance wise and has just 7% giving it a 1 egg rating
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684
Storage - The Blue is not exactly a great performer.... remember that the speed of the SSD does squat for the games that are stored on the HD. I would strongly suggest getting an SSHD. Here it's more than twice as fast in gaming as the Blue and 50% faster than the Black
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd-charts-2013/-17-PCMark-7-Gaming,2915.html
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5748/seagate-desktop-2tb-sshd-st2000dx001-review/index9.html
A situation like this left most power users using an SSD for their operating system, while still running a secondary mechanical drive for storage and games. A typical setup such as this would allow the OS to load very quickly, while leaving you stunned at how long it took to load a game. With the introduction of the Desktop SSHD, Seagate has again switched up the game, offering a substantial performance boost to those of you in this situation.
Now, if you are one that chooses to use a single drive for your operating system, and have held onto your standard desktop HDD for the benefit of capacity, the Desktop SSHD is calling your name. The 8GB of NAND cache in conjunction with Seagate's application optimized algorithms should offer a tremendous performance boost, and again the more you use, it the faster the drive will get, as it learns how you use your system.
In every case seen here today, the Seagate Desktop SSHD excels, whether it be a synthetic point and click benchmark like HD Tune or ATTO, or even application traces via PCMark 8, the drive just performs.
MoBo - While the Z170 Hero looks like a very good board, I just can't support the Z97 one. It's gets it's tail kicked by boards costing half as much and has relatively high % of extremely unhappy users
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/msi_z97_gaming_6_review/10
The ranking is based on setting the board which recorded the highest combined fps in the gaming tests at 100% and ranking the others by fps as a % of the fastest one.
MoBo % of Leader
MSI Z97 Gaming 9 - 100.00%
MSI Z97 Gaming 5 - 99.86%
MSI Z97A Gaming 6 - 98.96%
Asus Z97 TUF Sabranco - 96.13%
Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 5 - 95.00%
Gigabyte Z97X SOC Force - 94.95%
Asus Z97 Maximus VII Hero - 93.67%
Asus Z97 Maximus VII Formula - 93.58%
Asus Z97 Maximus VII Gene - 91.69%
Asus Z97-A - 89.57%
MSI Z97 Mpower MAX AC - 88.20%
MSI Z97S Krait SLI - 71.01%
To be 6 - 7% behind the top boards is a significant deterrent for me, especially when it costs > 50% more
Another ranking appears below .... based upon which boards might be best avoided. The % listed are the percent of board owners who posted extremely negative (1 egg) user reviews.
Asus Z97 TUF Sabranco - 3%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132414
MSI Z97 Mpower MAX AC - 4%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130765
MSI Z97 Gaming 5 - 10%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130770
Asus Z97 Maximus VII Gene - 11%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132136
MSI Z97A Gaming 6 - 12%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128709
Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 5 - 14%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128709
MSI Z97S Krait SLI 19%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130801
Asus Z97 Maximus VII Hero - 19%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132125
Asus Z97 Maximus VII Formula - 26%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132247
Asus Z97-A - 27%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132118
MSI Z97 Gaming 9 - 28%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130808
Gigabyte Z97X SOC Force - 29%
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128704
The MSI Gaming 5 runs $125 - $135, beats the Hero by 6% and has about half the extremely negative reviews. Also, if you use the compare function on newegg, you will see that up and down the list, the MSI has equal or better components. The Gigabyte Gaming 5 also does well and usually goes for about ha;f the price of the hero at $105.
Cooler - The D14 is a great cooler, tho it does get edged by the Phanteks PH-TC14PE which is a bit cheaper and certainly more attractive. If ya happen to choose the white Luxe case... the white cooler looks fantastic (blue, red, black and orange also available)
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/phanteks-cpu-cooler-phtc14pe
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