Building my first gaming PC

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You have 2 GPU's listed? Is that intentional?

I'm never a fan of "Green" HDD's, even though yours is just a data drive. You have the budget, I'd get a Caviar Blue.

Also, I'd change PSU's. Stick to Antec, Corsair, Seasonic, Enermax, or XFX.

Switch to the i7-2600k. It saves you $30 for the extra .1 GHz that you can gain back by overclocking.

You are overpaying for RAM too. I'd get this instead, personally. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231429 But I never have a $2500 budget lol.
 

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Yes, two GPUs is intentional. and I'll see for a better PSU.
 

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I asked at the local PC store and they recommended a 560 with a 420. Have one for PhysX and the other for graphics/3D.
 

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Buying a seperate card for PhysX is a ripoff. Not many games use it and the 680 is a mighty fine card to do PhysX on its own. I would stick with 1 680 for now, it's easy enough to purchase another later and SLI it if you want.

Again, you are overpaying for RAM. I know your budget is higher, but I still don't want you to be frivolously spending money on things that don't help your system.

1000w PSU is overkill, but this is still a monster PSU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207021 EDIT: I see you changed it to a Corsair, that's a great supply too.
 

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Your friend is wrong. Has to be the same card, GTX 680 and GTX 680. Or GTX 560 and GTX 560.

That's for SLI. You can have a dedicated PhysX card but its a waste of money, a waste of space, a waste of power.
 

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1 680. Those will be in production much longer and you can always SLI at a later time. You won't need to for a while though, the 680 is a beast. Plus you get the benefits of 28nm silicon (Less power consumption, less heat!)
 

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You can go back to 16 GB of RAM! You have the budget ;) Just get 2 more sticks of the RAM you have set now.

And if you want to get crazy, you can double up the SSD and run a RAID 0 setup! Your I/O performance would be insane, and you would have 500GB of SSD storage.
 

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Holy crap, 480GB SSD. If its in your budget, that's awesome! I don't think you need it though, you have a 1TB data drive, and I doubt you have 480GB of games and programs.

I still think you should save $30 and go with the i7-2600k processor.