Advise on lowering price/Keeping performance.

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Traciatim

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I'd personally switch out to an i5 for a gaming rig, as very few games see an advantage with HT enabled. The cost isn't worth the performance gain unless you have some other non-gaming specific purpose that it really benefits from.

The difference in cost to run on an 80Plus Gold vs an 80Plus Bronze is not very much at all and certainly not worth the price. You could probably shave some cash there.

That motherboard is crazy overkill. You could save a ton by switching out to a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H or similar. Unless there is something very specific that you must have that motherboard for I really don't see any reason to spend that much.

The cooler is a little pricy too, there are many good tower coolers that are cheaper than the one you picked... possibly not as nice, but worth a look to see if you can shave 30 bucks off the top.
 
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I've saved quite a bit changing the cooler & PSU.
As too the Mobo, I live in Denmark. And the Sabertooth and the 1 you link has a price difference here less than 20$.. :) Any other cheap alternatives?

 
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As the price comparisons are a bit awkward, making specific recommendations are much harder.

For motherboards, ASRock Z87 Extreme 4, Asus Z87 PLUS, Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H (traciatim mentioned the UD5H) are usually reasonably well priced (relative to the Sabertooth) and good at overclocking.

Not much point in your secondary HDD. Caviar Black drives make sense if you need larger capacities and want the extra warranty life. At 1TB or less, they are so much more expensive than the equivalent Caviar Blue or Barracuda drives, and no faster. 1TB is often a sensible value for money cutoff.

The cooler is great, but as has been pointed out, expensive. If you want to go nuts with overclocking, it is money well spent.

The Define R4 is a good case, but again you can save money here if you really want to boost the value for money factor.
 
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