Is this a good gaming desktop pc setup

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making my first gaming pc and was wondering if these parts would be good together and work together, first time, budget is around 1200 please suggest ways to improve

Motherboard: MSI Z87XGD65 GAMING

CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K Quad Core Retail CPU (Socket 1150, 3.50GHz

CPU Cooler: Corsair 120mm Hydro Series H80i Digital High Performance Rad All-In-One Liquid CPU Cooler
Graphics card: EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX780 Superclocked ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

RAM: Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz CL9 XMP
Case: NZXT Technologies H2 Classic Silent Midtower Chassis CS-NT-H2-B

Power supply:
Cooler Master 720W 12V Silent Pro M2 720
Hard drive: Samsung HN-M101MBB 1TB 5400rpm SATA 2.5 inch

SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5 inch Basic SATA Solid State Drive

Thanks and will mainly play BF4 and COD ghosts
 
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The ACX cooler is a dual-fan cooler, which I believe tend to exhaust air in multiple directions. The stock cooler minimizes this by exchanging most of its air right out the case.

If you're just planning on using a single GPU, go for a multi-fan cooler, but in multi-GPU setups, they can cause issues, as one card can end up intaking the exhaust of another.

The single-fan reference cooler is likely best if you ever intend for a multi-card setup. They're also decently quiet when not on a large overclock. And if noise isn't a huge problem, you can still hit a 1.2GHz clock speed with the reference cooler, which places the 780 past the Titan.

Also, if you are ever going for a dual-GPU setup, you'll need a really good front panel fan setup...
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The ACX cooler is a dual-fan cooler, which I believe tend to exhaust air in multiple directions. The stock cooler minimizes this by exchanging most of its air right out the case.

If you're just planning on using a single GPU, go for a multi-fan cooler, but in multi-GPU setups, they can cause issues, as one card can end up intaking the exhaust of another.

The single-fan reference cooler is likely best if you ever intend for a multi-card setup. They're also decently quiet when not on a large overclock. And if noise isn't a huge problem, you can still hit a 1.2GHz clock speed with the reference cooler, which places the 780 past the Titan.

Also, if you are ever going for a dual-GPU setup, you'll need a really good front panel fan setup, as the lack of side panel fans makes it harder to get cool air to the GPUs.
 
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