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You're very welcome best of luck with the build ;)

If the budget is tight, the R9 290X doesn't belong. The performance scaling vs cost of flagship GPUs is terrible. The R9 290 and GTX970 cost significantly less, but represent a very small step down in performance.
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Hey,
I've laid out your build in pcpartpicker and it's cheaper than buying it all from pc case gear. Since you're going for a gaming build I wouldn't get a case that's similar price to your CPU and I really don't think your build will match in terms of color as having a blue mobo with a white case and a red GPU. If I were you, I would get a cheaper case and go for a better graphics card like the GTX980.
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/znLzpg
The prices are all in AUD so you don't have to worry about it.
 
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With the release of the GTX980, the R9 290X is sort of obsolete until price cuts shim it back into the competition. The GTX980 offers superior efficiancy and performance both in gaming and GPGPU workloads, and has several other advantages as well, like the 4x4K hardware video decoding support.

I think you have a very high likelyhood of physical interference between the tall RAM heatsinks and the CM212. To save yourself the hassle, pick memory kit that stands no taller than ~30mm to maximize compatibility with tower heatpipe HSFs. Crucial ballistix tactical low profile low voltage memory is great stuff. I've had mine at 2133-9-11-11@1.55V on an AMD memory controller, might do more haven't tried.

Full towers are about 2 feet tall. The added expansion slots add some additional length to what is already a hard reach for many 4+4pin connectors for the CPU power. I'm not sure if it will be an issue with the V750 and that case or not, but I normally would advise sticking with a nice mid tower or smaller unless there is a very specific reason for the full tower. Typically full towers are designed to support elaborate water cooling setups, 10+ drives, multi-GPU. extended ATX form factor motherboards, etc. If your build is not going to involve any of this, then the full tower is probably going to be mostly a big piece of eye candy (or an eye sore, as time wears on).

Performance scaling of SSDs in benchmarks doesn't translate to much impact on single client disk access workloads. A less expensive MX100 series SSD will offer the same user experience.
 
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Cheers I have changed my DRAM to 1866/9 and doubled it to 16Gb
 
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C_reid

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thanks for replying

At the moment my budget is a stretched as i can make it so unfortunatly i cant afford the new GPU.

I have changed the RAM to low profile ram should that shouldn't be an issue.
I am aware that the case will be big and abit of it will be for pure eyecandy but whats wrong with that right?

I will look into changing my ssd for the cheaper option.

thank you for your help it is really appreciated
 
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You're very welcome best of luck with the build ;)

If the budget is tight, the R9 290X doesn't belong. The performance scaling vs cost of flagship GPUs is terrible. The R9 290 and GTX970 cost significantly less, but represent a very small step down in performance.
 
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