I forget who posted the separate microphone website. I wish I could remember what the website was because I was planning on getting one.
The next generation of GPUs should be out during the first or second quarter of 2013. that's what the rumors are at least.
Bottom fans should be intakes, unless you've got your case on carpet. If you're case is sitting on carpet, then I would suggest not using a bottom mounted fan at all, because it's just going to load up your case with ungodly amounts of dust.
I agree with digital juice, you could save $50 on a good board without thunderbolt, and the extra money for the D14 is worth it. If you're running a separate storage driveis there any need for a 240gb ssd? You could save more cash and get a 120.
You can have as many fans as you like, as vortex said just dont have opposing intakes it'll misdirect the airflow and that cause problems. That being said its pretty hard to set them up opposingly.
Seeing as everyone else has covered the hardware IM gona put out my opinion on the zalman fan. Personally I hate my Zalman fan for 2 reasons 1. It is it huge the copper part that surrounds the fan is insanely sharp I actually cut my hand on it and got blood all over my motherboard.... 2. The radius of the copper part around the fan it huge. I had to take mine out because I was afraid it would short out my GPU
Ahh i see thanks for the suggestions and advice! Uhhh but could any of you fine sirs suggest me a gaming headset that works great for games and does well when i listen to music?