My First Proper Build, Got any tips?

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

Ah sharks, EVGA didn't think to put a heatpipe to link the VRM heatsinks together, and up the size of the rear most heatsink to ease the load of a smaller low profile bottom one.

DX I hope they fix that on the design since they decided to delay the FTW

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

If it was me i would look into:

Cpu: Intel I7 2600K Quad Core CPU, cant fault it but if you want to save money can always go for the 2500k

Mobo: all the ones you have said are good, just depends if you want to save money, with the price differences if there is any.

GPU: MSI GTX580 Lightning Edition, i would stick with nvidia only because you get stuff like physx with them, plus then you could always fold for the team

PSU: I would really recommend a corsair psu over a ocz one and 1250w seems a bit overkill with just 1 graphics unless you are going to add another one later

Ram: I would look into mushkin ram or the recently reviewed Kingston Genesis, 2000mhz doesnt really apply for sandybridge need 2133mhz

HDD: Wester Digital 1TB Caviar Black, ive got the 2tb version and its very good

SSD: Ocz Vertex 3 120GB, meant to be good but also have a look at the kingston v+100 range and corsair force

Case: Go with whatever you like, i would advise against the thermaltake level 10 though, it is whatever you like the looks of really they all provide decent airflow

H/S: you forgot cooling for the cpu so noctua nh-d14

What are you building the rig for mate and how many monitors do you intend using?

If its a gaming rig then go for a 2500K as the only real difference between that and the 2600K is that the 2600K has 8 threads instead of 4 which doesn't really mean anything when it comes to gaming apparently. If you do a lot of video rendering however or things along that line then you may want to go for the 2600K.

You also need to change the memory to either 1600, 1866, or 2133 as for some reason the P67 boards do seem to support 2000MHz.

This bits my personal preference but I'm not really a fan of that motherboard as when you add a second graphics card then the bandwidth of the cards goes to x8/x8 which I find completely acceptable if you where planning on buying a board half the price of this one but for that sort of money I would personally want x16x16. I must ad though that the difference between x16/x16 and x8/x8 only matters when running multiple monitors which is why I asked at the top. Like I said, this is just my personal preference.

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/Maximus_IV_Extreme/#specifications

These are the board specs if anyone wants to double chack what I'm saying.

Hope this helps.

As above, get a 2500K the 2600K wont help you more than the 2500K in gaming.

GTX GPU

Raven 02 Case

UD7 Mobo.

Job done, wang on an NH-D14 and some mushkin / gskill ram and youll be sorted.

What about the MSI P67A GD-80?

Also with the EVGA

How are you meant to use the top PCIe slot with that thing there exactly?

Ah sharks, EVGA didn't think to put a heatpipe to link the VRM heatsinks together, and up the size of the rear most heatsink to ease the load of a smaller low profile bottom one.

Big Update

I am waiting to decide if this will be a p67 build or a Bulldozer build, I may change my Card to a MARS II depending upon what reviews say about it.