Old-dog died... building a $1000 Ivy-rig

[Westlight]

Hey-o everyone!

My "old-dog" of a home pc died a horrible death earlier today... (r.i.p lil buddy)

So i am going to build a new ivy-bridge system for around $1000 and was seeking everyone's approval on the parts I've selected.

BUT! Before i get any responses i want to point a few things in-advance...

1: Is the I5-3470 a solid CPU for moderate gaming? I'm not going to be OC'ing this as anything is an upgrade to my dead rig (no k-series please)
(old-yeller was an Athlon 64 X2 4200 in a HP narra2 GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 microatx mobo... with 2Gb of 333Mhz ddr2.... it was old...)

2: I am stuck between upgrading to 16GB of 8cas RAM and downgrading my SSD to a 128GB or keeping the 256GB SSD and the 8GB 9cas RAM, thoughts?

3: Anyone think i should order a few extra cables just-in-case i get shorted from manufacture's?

Any tips would be much appriciated!

CPU & PSU combo http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1049515

MoBo & SSD combo http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1041784

GPU & RAM combo http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1036294

Case & HDD combo http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1031726

ADD $120 for win7 home and a dvd burner and it should come-out to $1006.90 before warranty and shipping

How does it look?

 

[obsama1]

Spend some cash and get the 2500K or 3570K. Downgrade to a 128GB. Looks good.

 

[Westlight]

Spend some cash and get the 2500K or 3570K. Downgrade to a 128GB. Looks good.

Thanks for the speedy reply, but i don't want to OC, so to me the K-series CPU would be overkill.

Originaly i was going to go with a I3-2120, but i decided that wasn't going to cut it

 

[obsama1]

Well, step up to a 3570 non-K at least.