Looking to buy and upgrade a GT70 2OC-065US

Hey guys, been a owner of a MSI GT780DXR since the release. Love these notebooks and looking to upgrade for better performance on FFXIV and BF4. So I've found a few MSI GT70 2OC-065US's for around $1200-1400. But I wanna do some upgrades myself since last time I bought from Xoticpc.com and turns out they didn't do any of the upgrades I purchased except the CPU upgrade and extra ram. So I decided to buy the parts and do it myself this time. I've had a lot more experience with thermal compounds and system upgrades.
The reason I'm here though is, I'm not familiar with the 4th gen CPU's and need some advice and knowledge from you guys about the GT70. So basically, all I'm gonna be doing is upgrading the RAM, thermal compound, hard drive, and do a fresh install.
The parts I'm looking at purchasing for the upgrades...
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB (MZ-7TE250BW) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147248
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series Model F3-1600C9D-8GRSL http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231703
and A Full Windows 8 Pro w/ 8.1 upgrade.
Now I'm wondering since I'm not sure about the GT70, are 2 of the ram slots on top of the board like in the GT780 (i.e. under the keyboard)? Will I need to do a Bio's flash for the SSD and is ram I've selected the best option for the system or is there other options better suited? The G Skill say the 1.35V is for 4th gen processors but I'm curious if this is recommended for this board? Also, any resources out there showing a tear down of the GT70 to it's frame?
Any advice or recommendations will be greatly appreciated.

FWIW, I have the best performance from Samsung SSD's I've been using 4 830's for going on two years as OS SSD drives in 4 PC's, another has a 840 evo as the OS drive. A little over a year ago I upgraded my Sony VAIO laptop's from the 640GB HDD to a Samsung 840 500GB HDD. It's been flawless.
I have some refurbed OCZ's, all have been fine, but really haven't had them that long. My first SSD was a Crucial M4, it is still running strong, but isn't nearly as fast as any of the Samsung drives. I also have a refurbed Crucial M4, not very old, but runs identical to the original I bought. I tend to use Newegg and what they sell for refurbs as a guide to what may or may not be a good idea. OCZ's are constantly on there, just about any make and model. Crucial started popping up a few months ago. Haven't checked lately, but last I looked, Still no Samsung refurbs. That's not to say people haven't had trouble with them.
If you do go Crucial, check out the M500, and go for at least one that is 480GB are larger. The write speed on the 256 (240GB) and smaller drives are inferior to the other drives, I believe this is true for the M4 line as well.
Always had good luck with GSkill memory, it's the only brand I buy for my desktops, and it's what I used to upgrade my Sony laptop as well.

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