first gaming build - advice please?

islalr

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After a bit of research these are the components i'm considering, this'll be my first gaming build so I just want to check i'm not making any silly mistakes with incompatibilities etc before i research further into these, any improvements/advice would be appreciated:
(i'm a little over budget too so any cutting of corners would be useful aswell!)

CPU: Intel Core i7 i7-4790 CPU (Quad Core 4GHz, Socket H3 LGA-1150)
Motherboard: Asus H97-PRO Intel Motherboard
RAM: Corsair CMY16GX3M2A186?6C9R Vengeance Pro Series 16GB (2x8GB)
gcard: MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 Gaming Twin Frozr HDMI DVI-I DP Graphics Card (4GB, PCI Express, DDR5, 256 Bit)
SSD: SanDisk Extreme PRO SSD 240 GB Sata III 2.5 Inch Internal up to 550 MB/s
Harddrive:
Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive
cooler: Cooler Master RR-212E-16PK-R?1 Hyper 212 Evo Black Fan
PSU: EVGA Supernova 550 W Gs Gold 80+ Modular Power Supply Unit