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Personally i think you over paying a bit for that motherboard. The MSI Z87-G45 motherboard works just fine and is overclock ready and contains lots of little functions that are nice. Also I recommend not getting a SSD. For this price if you can only afford one like that i recommend you put the money somewhere else and save up for say a Kingston 120gb SSD, until then keep your money because a 32gb won't hold as much as you would like. Also i recommend Nvidia graphics cards unless you want to...
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quicksand10

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Seems like a good build.

Haswell (Intel IX-4xxx series) processors are newer than Ivy Bridge (IX-3xxx series) processors, so of course you will be better off with Haswell, especially if the Haswell CPU-Motherboard combo is cheaper than Ivy Bridge!
 
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Personally i think you over paying a bit for that motherboard. The MSI Z87-G45 motherboard works just fine and is overclock ready and contains lots of little functions that are nice. Also I recommend not getting a SSD. For this price if you can only afford one like that i recommend you put the money somewhere else and save up for say a Kingston 120gb SSD, until then keep your money because a 32gb won't hold as much as you would like. Also i recommend Nvidia graphics cards unless you want to overclock in which case i recommend the AMD graphics cards. Also consider the phantom case as it has lot's of air cooling options (unless you want to go with a liquid cooling system) which is nice as your components will stay completely cool. I personally would recommend:



PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/18VXf
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/18VXf/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/18VXf/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ Outlet PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Video Card ($283.98 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Phantom 410 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan ($2.99 @ Newegg)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan ($2.99 @ Newegg)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan ($2.99 @ Newegg)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan ($2.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($49.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $990.85
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-21 23:00 EDT-0400)

This build fits your budget (obviously if you needed things like a monitor and stuff you would have to cut back and i could find a build for that if you need one) but this build is nice and cool and has more than enough fans to keep your system cool and is overclockable with the upgraded cpu cooler and high air flow of the case. This build is also very easily upgradeable. It allows dual-SLI so you could simply add another GPU to improve game performance, plenty of expansions for your Hard drives for memory, and has a big enough power supply that you wouldn't have to worry about it for awhile (a big enough case for these expansions as well).
 
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