New build Advise

[Stuie]

Looking at the first full build for 5 years upgrading from a q6600 and 8800gtx

I will be taking across my ozz 720 modular psu sammie 830 ssd and ive got a few 1 and 1.5 tb drives lying around at home after a recent server upgrade below is my basket

NZXT Switch 810 Hybrid Black Full Tower Silent Performance Case with USB 3.0 and Side Window w/o PSU £111.97 £134.36
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LN44184
Asus Sabertooth Z77, Intel Z77, S 1155, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, PCIe 3.0, DisplayPort/ HDMI, ATX £148.77 £178.52
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LN45195
16GB (2x8GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Low Profile Jet Black, PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC, CAS 10-10-10-27, XMP, 1.5V £61.61 £73.93
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LN40864
140mm NZXT 9 Blade Rifle Bearing Fan Silent with Braided Cable 1300rpm £6.58 £7.90
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LN44983
2GB Gainward GTX 670, 28nm, PCIe 3.0 (x16), 6008MHz GDDR5, GPU 915MHz, Boost 980MHz, Cores 1344, 2x DL DVI, DP, HDMI £239.67 £287.60
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LN42461
NZXT Sentry Mix LED Illuminated Fan Crontroller with Six 50W Channels 5 LED Colours Slider Controls £24.44 £29.33
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LN41424
NZXT Havik 140 CPU Cooler 6 Heat Pipe Dual 140mm Silent Fans S775/1155/1156/1366 AM3/AM2+/AM2 £40.41 £48.49
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LN42833
Intel Core i7 3770K,1155, Ivy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.5GHz, 5 GT/s DMI, 650MHz GPU, 8MB Smart Cache, 35x Ratio, 77W,Retail £214.17 £257.00
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LN14373
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound for CPU and Chipset Coolers - 3.5 gram £3.59 £4.31
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LN35689
Boogie Bug Aim B.PAD XL Gaming Mouse Mat / Surface - Large Size

Any advice? anything your change? anything that would be better for the same money or less?

Thanks

[Domestic_Ginger]

What you doing and whats your screen setup?

The mobo could probably be to a cheaper option (its a premium hence the prcie tag). Go down to an i5 3570/2500k.

Not sure on ideal cooler; Hexus did a review recently but £50 seems an awful lot. I was under the impression the thermal limit of the chips are due to the poor design limiting them thermally and not the price of the cooler.

[Stuie]

gaming mostly but i hope to still be gaming on this rig in a few years time, im not a every 2 year upgrader like I used to be

[Stuie]

Also of the ones youve pointed me to one isnt great when overclocking 1 isnt sold by scan 2 are more expensive and the thermaltake and noctua are just plain ugly

[dacads]

I agree noctua are ugly but they had to stand out in some shape, way or form

Also an i5 3570k is overclockable and is just what you need for gaming, i7 will be overkill the hyperthreading will go to waste..

Also around that money you could go with water cooling instead such as the Corsair H40 or H60..an air alternative would be the following:
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/be-qu...us-am3-754-940

[Stuie]

I did think about water but after reading reviews the top airs are just as good if not better than the aio waters and tbh throwing another 500 quid at a custom water loop seems like a lot I might still go the custom water route after xmas or something but I wanted be able to play first, also I do do some video encoding mkv2vob and stuff on it too hence the i7