Suggestions for first time build

[bwilbond]

Looking for suggestions, tips, pointers, etc, for a cyberpower build which I will use solely for gaming at max settings.
(24" widescreen 1920x1080 monitor)

I did my homework best I could before doing this but I am still quite inexperienced so please share any and all bits of knowledge I could use regarding fixes and improvements and if I left out any important info please let me know. All help is greatly appreciated.

note: everywhere I go people say that liquid cooling isn't necessary. I don't care either way but they are offering it to me for free. Should I take it or is it not worth the trouble?



Case: Raidmax Viper Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ 1x USB 3.0 Port & Side Window Panel

Extra Case Fan Upgrade: Default case fans

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3820 Quad-Core 3.60 GHz 10MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011 (All Venom OC Certified)

Cooling Fan: Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) (Single Standard 120MM Fan)

Motherboard: (4-Way SLI Support) GIGABYTE X79-UP4 Intel X79 Chipset Quad Channel DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ 3D UEFI Bios, Ultra Durable 5, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-III RAID, 4 Gen3 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1 & 1 PCI

Memory: 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory (Corsair Vengeance)

Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card

Power Supply Upgrade: * 850 Watts - Corsair CMPSU-850TXV2 80 Plus Power Supply - Quad SLI Ready

Hard Drive: 240 GB OCZ Agility 3 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 525MB/s Read & 500MB/s Write

Data Hard Drive: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD

Optical Drive: 24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive

Optical Drive 2: LG 14X Internal Blu-ray Burner, BD-RE, DVD+RW, 3D Playback Combo Drive

Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit Edition)

 

[killerhurtalot]

How much are they charging for this?

Because for purely gaming, it's going to be underwhelming for a lot of those unneeded components... (psu, gpu,cpu/mobo, etc...)
You'll game at medium/high at the most.... probably won't even touch the ultra settings especially with AA/AF/Tesselation on.



change the processor to a i5-3570k ($300 cheaper) (i5-3550 if you're not overclocking)
change motherboard to z77 motherboard (at least $100 cheaper) (other non z77 motherboards if you're not overclocking)
upgrade that GPU to a 7970($250 more) or GTX 670($200 more) or GTX 680 ($300 more)
change that PSU to 600w (unless you're going to go with SLI/CFX later on which then you can keep the 850w)
change that case to a better case... that case is so shitty...

Change the SSD to 120GB (don't think you'll need that much since SSD only helps with load times by a bit and has no influence on performance)


Overall, if you do the changes,it'll be way better for gaming.

And if you want to save a extra $150-200 (maybe even up to $250-300), build it yourself.