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I put together a gaming build for myself just about a week ago and wanted to know how to check that everything's compatible with each other, or if you would just be able to let me know if everything is meaning everything will fit in the case and everything else is compatible with mother board. If this post is in the wrong place please let me know thanks.
heres the build

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz ($339.99)
CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling UCACO-FI11001-CSA01 74.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($22.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($134.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Crucial M550 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($95.99 @ Micro Center)
Storage: Toshiba 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: GeForce GTX 780 (479.99)
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811156078 ($89.99)
Power Supply:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139010($129.99)

you will have to copy paste the link to see the power supp and the case sorry )=
 
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Well first off, there are a lot of parts you don't need, but firstly, welcome to Tomshardware! First off, the i7 is overkill for gaming. Even if you are gaming on 4k monitors, there are no differences between an i5-4670k and an i7-4770k, the only time the i7 shines is video editing/CPU heavy tasks. Gaming is a Graphics-intensive task. For the CPU cooler, I HIGHLY recommend a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU cooler, as it is just 8 USD more, but a highly rated and highly praised CPU cooler for temperatures. For gaming, you should switch out your motherboard to a Z87 chipset one, as they were oriented towards gamers and overclocking. For the motherboard, try an Asus Maximus VI Hero. For the RAM (memory), use DDR3-1866 MHz CAS 9 such as the...
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Well first off, there are a lot of parts you don't need, but firstly, welcome to Tomshardware! First off, the i7 is overkill for gaming. Even if you are gaming on 4k monitors, there are no differences between an i5-4670k and an i7-4770k, the only time the i7 shines is video editing/CPU heavy tasks. Gaming is a Graphics-intensive task. For the CPU cooler, I HIGHLY recommend a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU cooler, as it is just 8 USD more, but a highly rated and highly praised CPU cooler for temperatures. For gaming, you should switch out your motherboard to a Z87 chipset one, as they were oriented towards gamers and overclocking. For the motherboard, try an Asus Maximus VI Hero. For the RAM (memory), use DDR3-1866 MHz CAS 9 such as the Corsair Vengeance Pro series. 16 Gb is a bit overkill for gaming unless you wanted to run a video editing program with games, so 8 GB is sufficient for just gaming. For the SSD, I recommend the Samsung 840 EVO 120Gb. Again, a bit more expensive, but much better performance and reliability. For the Hard Drive, your real choices are seagate and western digital. They make identical drives in terms of performance, reliability, etc. so pick the cheaper one. Finally, your graphics card is EXTREME overkill if you are just using a single monitor. If you are using a single monitor, use an EVGA GTX 770 w/ ACX cooler, as it will easily max out any game eg. Crysis 3 on 1-2 monitors. Overclock your CPU and GPU for the best performance. Use EVGA precisionX for overclocking and MSI kombustor for stress-testing. Use Prime-95 to stress test your CPU.

PARTS LIST:
Intel i5-4670k
Asus Maximus VI Hero
EVGA GTX 770 w/ ACX Cooler
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3-1866MHz CAS 9 2x8Gb
Samsung 840 EVO 120 GB
Western Digital Caviar Black/Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM SATA3 Hard Drive.
Corsair HX Power Supply
Same case.
 
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