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For a thousand dollars, I would certainly hope so! lol, but in all seriousness, that does seem like a great gaming build. You've got a great CPU although some people would tell you to stay away from Haswell and stick with the Ivy Bridge processors. But that looks like a steal at that price point. There's room for overclocking if you want to do that kind of thing, though you'd also want to consider an aftermarket cooler. The NH-D14 for air, NZXT X40/X60 for water since you have a NZXT case, would be the enthusiast level options at your disposal. The NH-D14 won't fit in your case if you treasure your side-fan, but without it could work. Otherwise, there's plenty of other good air options out there.

The GTX 770 will provide plenty of...
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great build :) if you're willing to overclock you can consider getting the cooler master hyper 212 evo. also for faster loading times in windows,games,files a solid state disk would be great around 128GB. good power supply but better going abit higher for later.

your choice BTW this build is great :)
 
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For a thousand dollars, I would certainly hope so! lol, but in all seriousness, that does seem like a great gaming build. You've got a great CPU although some people would tell you to stay away from Haswell and stick with the Ivy Bridge processors. But that looks like a steal at that price point. There's room for overclocking if you want to do that kind of thing, though you'd also want to consider an aftermarket cooler. The NH-D14 for air, NZXT X40/X60 for water since you have a NZXT case, would be the enthusiast level options at your disposal. The NH-D14 won't fit in your case if you treasure your side-fan, but without it could work. Otherwise, there's plenty of other good air options out there.

The GTX 770 will provide plenty of gaming power (for example, I have the GTX 760 and I run TitanFall at greater than or around 60FPS with most settings turned all the way up). I would personally steer away from EVGA as far as graphic card makers are concerned, but to each their own (my brother prefers Sapphire, I like Gigabyte).

Your PSU is at 550W, but it looks like your card requires a 600W minimum (though please correct me if I'm looking at the wrong card at the EVGA website). So I would recommend getting at least that much (if I'm not mistaken the Corsair TX650 is a solid buy, and would only be ~$15 or so more than the Rosewill you have picked out). Also, double check your +12V rail if you choose another PSU, the EVGA card looks like it needs at least 42A, the Rosewill was capable of supplying 45.5A (the Corsair I recommended hits 53A).

Also the Phantom 410 is an awesome case! My brother has it in a different color and that thing is a beast both visually and performance wise. Though, it only has 3 fans stock in it so you trade some of the original Phantom's benefits for 410's size. (I personally went with an Apevia case, much cheaper, looked decent, but had 5 fans and it stays waaaay cool). Just my 2 cents though!

I hope this helps!
 
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550w is plenty for a gtx770 and i5 build. 650w would be fine but not necessary. The 42A number is VASTLY overestimated. It will not use anything close to 42A. The gtx770 is a 210w card at 100% load bitmining. During gaming 100% load it will not pull over 190w.
 
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Capstone is really well reviewed. Look into it sometime.

 
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you will have to disable C6 and C7 sleep states for the psu to work.

According to Intel's presentation at IDF, the new Haswell processors enter a sleep state called C7 that can drop processor power usage as low as 0.05A. Even if the sleeping CPU is the only load on the +12V rail, most power supplies can handle a load this low. The potential problem comes up when there is still a substantial load on the power supply's non-primary rails (the +3.3V and +5V). If the load on these non-primary rails are above a certain threshold (which varies by PSU), the +12V can go out of spec (voltages greater than +12.6V). If the +12V is out of spec when the motherboard comes out of the sleep state, the PSU's protection may prevent the PSU from running and will cause the power supply to "latch off". This will require the user to cycle the power on their power supply using the power switch on the back of the unit."

C7 can be disabled in the motherboards bios, and is disabled by default on most desktops.
 
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