@chrimen, Hey sorry i failed to mention in my post (was basically angry typing on three diff forums and an email) I cannot get into windows at all, all forms up bootups or safe modes fail. All my system restores failed (tried the 3 save points i had). All system attempts and 'fixing' the problem hang, and eventually just lead to a black screen. Based on the .5 seconds i can see the error message on the BSOD, it appears to be an NVIDIA driver issue (even stranger because my last update was probably 5-7 days ago right after I first got it, meaning a windows update impacted the drivers somehow)

Normally the solution would be to boot into safe mode, delete the problem file out of the system32 folder and copy over the 'current' one from your nvidia/drivers folder. But again I cannot get into windows at all. So before i left for work today (I work overnights at my office) I performed system 'refresh' which is another garbage option because its going to literally delete the fricken terabyte of games ive spent a week installing and downloading.
As fort he computer recommendation Im stuck with offerings at best-buy due to a combination of having used over 600 dollars in store credit / gift cards and another 500 on my BBY credit card (try to only use 25% of available credit at a time).

Based on that I may go with a simpler ASUS tower (with a comparable CPU) then add in an extra HDD and update the video card (maybe go with a 970 right off the bat)

I'm still incredibly angry, I have this weekend to decide if I want to exchange/return or stick with it (stupid 15 day return policy since I bought it right after the new year)

Tried that as well (was familiar with the method from my first system taking a dump on me)

When i left for work i ran a full system refresh, so basically when i get back home in the morning after a 12 hour shift ill be the right balance of exhausted and pissed off to begin re installing everything again.. for like the 3rd time in 2 weeks.

Worst part, i was literally going to backup all my steam installs this weekend (only half of my games are backed up atm) in case something happened (along with origin game folders, there's a trick to using them as backups, schedule download, pause, close origin, paste the backup, launch origin, resume download, it verifies the files, done.)

edmak1804 wrote:
Tried that as well (was familiar with the method from my first system taking a dump on me)

When i left for work i ran a full system refresh, so basically when i get back home in the morning after a 12 hour shift ill be the right balance of exhausted and pissed off to begin re installing everything again.. for like the 3rd time in 2 weeks.

Worst part, i was literally going to backup all my steam installs this weekend (only half of my games are backed up atm) in case something happened (along with origin game folders, there's a trick to using them as backups, schedule download, pause, close origin, paste the backup, launch origin, resume download, it verifies the files, done.)

So you can't load even when using the Intel GPU? Just like hori said, that's how I got mine out of the BSOD situation.

I assume you installed all the steam games in the data drive. If you did then once you're up and running all you have to do is reinstall steam and then steam will just configure itself to run the games that are installed in the data drive.

You can also use Game Save Manager to create back ups of your saved games since those are probably in the my documents folder in the C drive.