If you like the raven because of the looks, go for it.
Or, for that matter, any other case that you love.
Bust your budget if need be because you will be looking at it for a long time.
There are other options for cpu cooling.
I have become a bit jaded on the subject of haswell cooling for overclocking.
How high you can OC is firstly determined by your luck in the bin lottery.
I had high expectations from the Devil's canyon parts and their better thermals.
I found out that the thermals really do not matter unless, perhaps, you are a competitive overclocker.
Haswell runs quite cool, that is, until you raise the voltage past 1.25v or so.
Once you go past 1.3v, then you really do need very good cooling to keep stress loads under say 85c.
But, voltages higher than 1.30 are not a good thing for 24/7 usage.
Even if you can handle the heat, how much do you really need that extra multiplier from say 4.4 to 4.6?
My thought is that it is better to use the exotic cooling funds for a quieter and less expensive air cooler.
Anything extra can go to a stronger graphics card for the gamer or a SSD.
My canned rant on liquid cooling:
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You buy a liquid cooler to be able to extract an extra multiplier or two out of your OC.
How much do you really need?
I do not much like all in one liquid coolers when a good air cooler like a Noctua NH-D15 or phanteks can do the job just as well.
A liquid cooler will be expensive, noisy, less reliable, and will not cool any better
in a well ventilated case.
Liquid cooling is really air cooling, it just puts the heat exchange in a different place.
The orientation of the radiator will cause a problem.
If you orient it to take in cool air from the outside, you will cool the cpu better, but the hot air then circulates inside the case heating up the graphics card and motherboard.
If you orient it to exhaust(which I think is better) , then your cpu cooling will be less effective because it uses pre heated case air.
And... I have read too many tales of woe when a liquid cooler leaks.
google "H100 leak"
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I suggest a noctua nh-D15 or phanteks with dual 140mm fans.
Your pc will be quieter, more reliable, and will be cooled equally well
A few suggestions for your parts selection:
Corsair 1866 is fine, but buy a low profile version.
Ram coolers are marketing and bring a higher price. Worse, tall heat spreaders interfere with good air coolers.
Ram cooling is of value only to record seeking ram overclockers.
On the ssd, 120gb can fill up quickly. Consider 240gb up front.
The value of the pro version over the evo is endurance. A pro will last perhaps 15 years vs. 10. Both will be long obsolete by then.
Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That is what the os does mostly.
Larger SSD's are preferable. They have more nand chips that can be accessed in parallel. Sort of an internal raid-0 if you will.
Also, a SSD will slow down as it approaches full. That is because it will have a harder time finding free nand blocks to do an update without a read/write operation.
The Seasonic 750w psu is as good as it gets. It will support GTX980 in sli, but perhaps not GTX780.
If you will be gaming on a single monitor, then you can pick the 650w version and use a GTX980.
If you plan on a 4k monitor or triple monitor gaming, then you need to plan on dual graphics cards.
In that case, GTX780 should have a 850w psu to allow for a second.
I would look for a GTX980 with the stock titan blower cooler.
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