Building a gaming/editing/light programming PC. Recommendations on my current build?

Jagons

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Hello. Sorry if this is in the wrong thread (i am new here).
Recently I have started to research components to build a PC for decent gaming (not like Ultra on BF4) some video editing/rendering for projects and some light programming (just for practice). After compiling some information i researched my parts and have pretty much created a document with my options. I will paste what i have below. What I am looking for is recommended changes, additions, removals all within 1200 euros. I'll end up buying them after your recommendations. I live in the EU so preferably websites (if you add any links) that ship to EU. The a),b),c) represent options from what i feel would be the best. The long series that is first is multiple options, the second is more specific and a possible one. Any feedback and recommendations is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Case:
a)Cooler Master K380

b) Cooler Master Elite 241

Motherboard:
a)ASRock Z87 PRO3 LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

b)ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Gaming Motherboard

CPU:
a)Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz LGA 1150 Quad-Core Desktop Processor

b)Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz LGA 1150 Quad-Core Desktop Processor

RAM Memory:
a) Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 996988

b) Mushkin Enhanced Radioactive 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 997005

c) SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB

Hard Drive:
a)Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA HDD

b)Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB:

Fan (I'm not interested in liquid cooling):

Please recommend a good fan.


Graphics Card:
a) Gainward GTX750 2GB Golden Sample

b) Asus Radeon HD7770 2GB GDDR5

Power Supply:

Please recommend a suitable power supply.





CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£137.03 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£54.37 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£57.75 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial M500 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£52.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£237.98 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.65 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£52.96 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer (£14.89 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.96 @ CCL Computers)



Thanks!
 
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That second build looks good. Since you aren't overclocking, you may want to took into the Xeon E3-1230 V3. It is about $40 more, but gives you i7 performance with hyper threading. Might be helpful given your needs, and also improve performance in future multi threaded applications.

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That second build looks good. Since you aren't overclocking, you may want to took into the Xeon E3-1230 V3. It is about $40 more, but gives you i7 performance with hyper threading. Might be helpful given your needs, and also improve performance in future multi threaded applications.
 
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Jagons

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What exactly is hyper threading? And thank you for reply.
 

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With hyper threading, each physical core has two threads, and to an OS, this is essentially like having 8 cores, allowing you better multi-tasking and performance in multi-threaded applications. BF4 is one of the newer games to make use of multiple threads.
 

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Thank you!