Compatibility Check Needed! Please Help!

dude7691

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Hello everyone! I am buying PC components for my first build in the next few days. Now I have done my homework and am pretty sure that everything is compatible. However, I am not going to endanger potentially shelling out £550 on to find out that "oh, that doesn't fit" or something similar. I would really appreciate a helping hand just to confirm that all my linked components shown down below are compatible with one another. Thanks.

CPU:
http://www.ebuyer.com/393558-intel-core-i3-3240-3-40ghz...

RAM:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=...

GPU:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-NVIDIA-GTX660-PCI-E-Gr...

Motherboard:
http://www.ebuyer.com/386271-gigabyte-ga-z77-ds3h-socke...

Optical Drive:
http://www.pixmania.co.uk/internal-dvd-rewriter/lg-gh24...

Hard Drive:
http://www.dabs.com/products/wd-1tb-blue-sata-6gb-s-720...

Case:
http://www.dabs.com/products/gigabyte-gz-g2-gaming-case...

Power Supply Unit:
http://www.dabs.com/products/corsair-500w-builder-serie...

Once again guys, thanks for help and I am glad that I am part of such a wonderful community! Thanks. :)
 

vinaykumar5320

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I think you should replace the CPU with an i5 or if you're on a budget you can choose FX 6300, which is almost at the same price of the i3 you chose.

In games like BF3/BF4, you will experience slight bottleneck issues with the GTX 660, coz these games make use of more than 2 physical cores.

FX6300 & ASUS M5A97 (non-LE version) will be good for you.