That would've been my next question.

Seems like a really nice rig though I'm not really a fan of SLI because of all the problems it brings with it.

One is litterally just sat doing physx, nothing I have currently pushes the one 780ti hard enough to need SLI enabled, at this point I don't think there are any single cards that are faster than a factory overclocked 780ti, and these Phantoms have quite a hefty overclock over the reference 780ti's

In the long run I plan on getting a 1440p 120hz monitor with GSync once they get around to making them, for the time being however it all works out just fine.

Once the water cooling is in place and these massive 3-bay wide stock coolers are off I'll have enough room to put my HDMI capture card and CS/Sattellite TV card (Japan) back in.

You know you love it, picked this up from my local strain station book shop the other day.

I would use that epic rig to watch that epic anime :)

I have to ask... Why the 3970X and not the newer Ivy-Bridge based 4970X? (Or the 3930K/4930K derivatives)

All you need now is for a proper water loop, braid up some cables and get a more decent case. :)

And without farther adoo... Welcome to the Socket 2011 PC gaming master race! Bahaha

Because i built this rig off of mostly spare parts from upgrading my work computer, which is running a 4960X (4970X doesnt exist, yet :P), work pc has same motherboard and ram (just more of it, 64GB) but an Nvidia Tesla K20X instead of a gaming specific card, didn't want the 3970X to go to waste so yeah..

My wife's comp is even better than my work comp to be honest, she's running dual Xeon E5-2687Wv2's on an Asus Z9PE-D8 WS with full compliment of 256GB of ram.

which looks like this for the record.

Can I ask the reason for the 5! 2TB HDDs or am I missing something

That will certainly power everything you could ever want, I guess you could get high end 4k with that?

I'm also curious about the dials on the front, is that some sort of fan controller?

This impressed me so much i started to fiddle around a bit, any advice on what i should change around? i'm not that informed on the latest releases stuff and just click stuff that sounds cool in a online pc builder XD

CPU
Intel Core i7-4770K
Cooler Master Eisberg 240L Prestige

Motherboard
Biostar Hi-Fi Z87X 3D

Memory
Corsair 32GB

Storage
Corsair 256GB SSD
Western Digital 2TB 5400RPM
Western Digital 2TB 5400RPM

Video Card
Asus Radeon R9 290X
Multiple?

Sound Card
Asus Xonar DSX

Case
Corsair CC650DW

Power Supply
XFX 1250W

Optical Drive
Asus BW-16D1HT

Just two pieces of advice.

Never skimp on motherboard, put in the cash and you'll have a stable platform that will take a fair amount of upgrades in its lifetime, buy cheap to keep the initial buy-in low and you'll end up with something potentially unstable, or worse - something that will take out your cpu and possibly anything else connected when the power management dies from the cheap components.

Never skimp on PSU, it's what changes the wall current to a usable voltage, get something solid and reliable with enough wattage to handle your components and then some, for wiggle room to upgrade, but obviously within moderation, unless you're going more than two cards you rarely need more than 1000W, also theres a lot of cheap PSU's with high wattage - don't make the mistake of prioritizing wattage when picking one, "but its cheap and is xxx watts!" is the worst approach for PSU selection.

Network storage for our work PC's (mine and my wifes), that was another reason for building the machine - I work with multi-gb files every day so a large amount of storage was a must, i will be installing another 5 2TB drives once we are done moving house.

Top things a fan controller and temperature monitor, middle things an amplifier, bottom is blu ray burner.

So in that case I could look at a MSI MPOWER or Asus i suppose?
And the XFX is not enough?

The XFX is enough, but I would recommend an Antec, in all the years ive been building PC's the antecs have been the only ones that have lasted the test of time.