[Help] Checking the overall balance of this ~$1000 build.

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I'm currently building a ~$1000 gaming rig and have already found what I think are the right parts.

I just wanna get some confirmation on the forums from more experienced builders (this is my first build) about the overall balance of this build.

Will it be CPU/GPU/anything bottlenecked?
(the HDD is a concern, but I value lots of space more than the price premium for an SSD which is why im going with a RAID setup)
Is the PSU alright if I decide to add another 760 in the future?
(everything I've read so far puts the 760 in SLI @~350W max. Can the 620W supply handle this?)

Intel i5-4430
Leadtek GTX760 (reference)
ASRock Z87 Extreme4
2x500GB WD/Blue RAID0
Corsair Value 2x4GB PC1600
Seasonic S12 620W

PS: about $200 is reserved for a monitor and casing.
*Update*

The closest thing to what I have available here is this build, which includes monitor and casing: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1Aztn
 
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Since most agree that a RAID0 setup for a home computer is not all that productive, and is in fact, more dangerous to your data, I would suggest getting a 1TB WD black drive. The 1 drive would probably cost less than the 2 500GB drives, be faster and has a longer warranty.
Don't forget, in a RAID0 setup, if you lose 1 drive you've lost ALL your data on BOTH drives, while doubling the chance that you will lose at least 1 drive.
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Since most agree that a RAID0 setup for a home computer is not all that productive, and is in fact, more dangerous to your data, I would suggest getting a 1TB WD black drive. The 1 drive would probably cost less than the 2 500GB drives, be faster and has a longer warranty.
Don't forget, in a RAID0 setup, if you lose 1 drive you've lost ALL your data on BOTH drives, while doubling the chance that you will lose at least 1 drive.
 
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I've already acknowledged the risk of running in RAID0, and i'll be adding more drives to convert it to a RAID10 once i have the money. Thanks for the advice!
 
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Well...the thing is that a 128GB SSD costs about $100-150 compared to the $40x2 = $80 for the HDDs.
I'd really like to have the super speed performance of an SSD, but the current prices make it too costly to have an SSD+HDD setup, especially since I have quite a bit of media I need to store.
 
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If the only reason you want to RAID is for the speed advantage, then I think you will be disappointed. RAID0 only outperforms on large sequential reads and writes, like you would get on a database server. The typical disk access for a desktop system are of the smaller, more random variety.

 
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i wouldn't have gone for RAID either, since the two drives can be used independently, but i found that i actually perform quite a fair bit of large moves every week or so...and so i opted to test the configuration to see what kind of speed gains i can get.

If it doesn't work out that well, I'll just reformat and go back to normal drives. No harm done testing it out any way IMHO.
 
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That's a valid reason for proceeding. I just didn't want you to have unrealistic expectations.
Good Luck!:D

 
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thanks for the concern :)
I really stressed out over this build, because i don't exactly have the money to replace any major parts if i pick the wrong stuff, heh.

In any case, i've always wondered about RAID performance and this would be a great time to check it out :lol:
 
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