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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming (planetside 2), Streaming Planetside 2, Photoshop, and some video editing.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$1000 just to ball park
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.
LI, NY. Microcenter is in driving distance
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
Intel Core i7 4770K 3.5GHz Socket LGA 1150, Corsair H90, MOBO and RAM, Case. (Maybes: Scythe Ultra Kaze, or comparable fans, EVGA GTX 660ti FTW, HDDS)
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Powersupply: Antec 1200w (I forget which names, got it recently within the last year from an RMA), Video Card: EVGA GTX 600ti FTW (won this at the last PAX, still in box), Hard drives: Intel 80gb SSD, 2x WD Caviar Black 1TB (one might be on its way out). Capture card: AVER Media Live Gamer HD, Sound card: Asus Xonar Essence STX.
6) Will you be overclocking?
CPU: In the future probably, GPU: probably.
7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it?
Monitors: Asus 120hz 27in main Monitor, and Samsung 24in 60hz secondary monitor
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
RIGHT NOW!
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? eSATA? Onboard video (as a backup or main GPU)? UEFI? etc.
SLI, RAID(Never know), USB 3.0, SATA, eSATA, I need quite a few PCI-E x1's and x16's to support all of my components. Looking to have room to grow aswell. Looking for 16 or so gb of ram.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
Win 7 Pro x64

This computer might be coming to events with me, planes etc, do you guys think it will be possible to fit all of my components in a smaller sized case, and what do you think the heat issue would be like. (I currently have a GTX480 so I know heat lol).
 
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You willing to replace that Antec PSU? It's a pretty large PSU that may not fit a lot of mATX cases out there.

Are you planning on adding any other cards to the PC? If not, a mATX setup is possible. However if there's a chance that you do plan on adding additional cards to the PC, you're going to have to stick with ATX. mATX has a max of 4 expansion slots. The video card would take two and the sound card and capture card would take one apiece. So you're basically out of expansion slots if going with mATX.

In terms of heat, a mATX setup with your planned parts are probably going to be running relatively hot but within limits. Since there probably won't be a slot's worth of space underneath the video card, you're definitely gonna see relatively high GPU temperatures.
 
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