I have a spare Cooler Master Elite 431 sitting in a closet and will eventually end up selling or giving to someone. In the mean time, I thought this would be a good chance to try painting a case, and with white being a popular color I was going to go with that. Aside from painting, are there any other relatively cheap and easy mods that I could play around with?

Don't care for them.

Coming from mostly playing 360 to now mostly PC, I really miss the achievements system on Xbox. It really did get me to try different things and play the same game multiple times. The way Steam has it, it's so much of an afterthought and it isn't in my face enough for me to pay enough attention to.

I've heard NOTHING but good things about the Audio Technica ATH-M50. After that, I would look at Sennheiser.

There are so many personal factors IMO that come into play when choosing a case. The first case I got I just wanted something simple and cheap. It worked fine enough, but after a while I ended up wanting/needing more.

The ports on the case are extra on top of what is on the motherboard. So you will have the ports on the back of the motherboard and the ones on the case to use. The ports on the case plug into the motherboard.

Things I ultimately looked for were:

1. Style - We all have our own style and vision for what we want.

2. Cable management - After using a case with no cable management I realized how nice it is to have. It works even better with a modular PSU.

3. Cooling - The case needs to be able to accommodate the coolers and fans you want to use. Some cases also come with fans.

4. Noise - Certain cases pay special attention to noise cancellation and include little things like rubber stands to cut down on vibration all the way to noise isolation foam.

Aside form that, most cases will have adequate space for hard drives and disk drives.

Some more Arma II Wasteland

Well, I finally bit the bullet and got the Corsair K70 with brown switches. I'm loving it.It was very different at first coming from a Logitech MK700. I had gotten used to it, but EVERYONE who used it said it was horrible to actually type on. Coming from that though, I'm glad I didn't get the blue switches. This is definitely much louder than the old one. Typing and gaming are much better now though and build quality is superb. I would recommend the K70 to anyone.

As of right now I've decided my next desk will be some combination of the Galant series from IKEA. Surprisingly, a lot of gaming youtubers are using this exact desk.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/workspaces/18960/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtO6GlBuSwU An example of it in use

I didn't say you were used to easy games, I said you are used to the current style of games, which also (for the most part) tend to be easier. I haven't played the two games you mentioned, so I might just be talking shit, but my understanding is that these games (Rayman Origins at least) were done in the fashion of how platformers used to be. Hell man, I'm 30, I remember spending hours trying to hit that long jump just right or figure out a boss fight without the help of the internet. Maybe these just take a chapter out of the old school book.

Or maybe it is because you are getting old :p

Seems like you are used to the current style of games which tend to be much easier then games "back in the day".

The wired controllers are the same. The wireless on the other hand...the Windows version comes with a wireless dongle.