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What would be the recommend Wttage for this Build?:

CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 (CW-9060007-WW) Water Cooler
LG 24X DVD Burner

Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz LGA 1150 Quad-Core Desktop Processor

ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 ATX Intel Motherboard

G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL10Q-32GBZL

SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Seagate Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Two SLI ASUS GTX660 TI-DC2O-2GD5 GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16

Rosewill THOR V2-White Edition, THOR V2-W Gaming ATX Full Tower Computer Case, support up to E-ATX / XL-ATX, come with Four Fans

It's my first build, any tips would be helpful.
 
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I'd say anything 800w+ would be perfect - gives headroom too so the PSU isn't under full load and doesn't get too loud. Anything from XFX, Seasonic, Antec or Corsair would be great.

On a side note, I'd drop your RAM down to 16gb as there's no way you'll be needing 32gb and it's a huge waste. I'd also stick with a 3tb drive to avoid problems which can arise with such high capacities. Two 2TB drives would be even better.
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I'd say anything 800w+ would be perfect - gives headroom too so the PSU isn't under full load and doesn't get too loud. Anything from XFX, Seasonic, Antec or Corsair would be great.

On a side note, I'd drop your RAM down to 16gb as there's no way you'll be needing 32gb and it's a huge waste. I'd also stick with a 3tb drive to avoid problems which can arise with such high capacities. Two 2TB drives would be even better.
 
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http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_geforce_gtx_660_directcu_ii_top_review,7.html
minimum.Est Power = Under 500 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 SLI - On your average system the cards require you to have a 700 Watt power supply unit as
NOTE: Est are normally on the high side as they assume a sub par PSU.
From: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/geforce-gtx-660-ti-sli_7.html#sect0
Approx 540 Watts, You will probably be under.

Lowest est power, Sytem = 323 Watts.
On the SLI side, the pair of GTX 650 Ti Boost boards consumed 323 watts, or ~40% more than a single GTX 650 Ti Boost graphics card. This was 3% less than the Radeon HD 7850 Crossfire cards and just 7% more than a single GeForce GTX 660 Ti.
http://www.techspot.com/review/661-nvidia-geforce-gtx-650-ti-boost-sli/page8.html.

Bottom Line, 750 Watt from Tier 2 listed PSU.
Tier List: http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/323050.aspx
 
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Thanks for the tips, i think i just over-thought things regarding ram and HDD sizes.
 
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No worries. :) Good luck with the build :)
 
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