New, and First, ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z Build, Coming to the Community for Assistance

[HALMAN]

Hello anyone and everyone who is reading this post. I would like to thank you for taking the time to at least read through here, and even more so if you give any advice.

I am welcome to any criticisms or advice, however, please keep a leash on any personal attacks. I know that it is unlikely to occur here, so far as I have observed, but feel that it should be mentioned none the same.

At any rate, as the title says, I am new to this, almost entirely. What I intend to accomplish with this build is to create a fairly powerful gaming rig that can be easily and economically upgraded in the future. At the moment, I would like to keep the price-tag under $1,600. If I can get it any amount significantly lower than this, then I would love to receive the advice.

If I have something on here that does the same exact work as something else, but is significantly higher priced, please feel free to inform me.

To Begin:

The Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z Mother-Board

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-crosshairvformulaz

The AMD FX-8350 Processor

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-fd8350frhkbox

The Corsair HX850 Power Supply/Heat Sink

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-power-supply-cmpsu850hx

The WD Black 4TB Hard Drive

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd4001faex

I am currently stuck between two 4GB G Skill Trident X Series sticks of RAM and two 8GB G Skill Trident sticks of RAM.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f32400c10d8gtx

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f32400c10d16gtx

I may or may not take advantage of the SLI/Crossfire capability that comes with the motherboard, and if I do, I will have two ASUS HD 7870 video cards.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-hd7870dc22gd5v2

I may have one, or possibly two LG WH14Ns40 blu ray/dvd/cd reader installed in the rigs casing.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/lg-optical-drive-wh14ns40

The casing itself will be in the Corsair 600T series...hopefully a black or graphite one...

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-case-cc600twmwht

And finally, if all is well, this will be displayed through Windows 7 on an ASUS VE248H LED Monitor.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-ve248h

 

[Tradesman1]

Overall looks very good - since you are looking to future to a degree would say go 16GB now, but would suggest looking at 1866 or maybe 2133 max for DRAM freq, there's not many 8350 that can run 2400 with only 4GB let alone trying 2400 with 8 or 16 GB....even 2133 w/ 16GB might be rather iffy