Building a comp... How does this look??

The Z77 motherboard allows you to overclock (increase the turbo boost) a cpu. If you do plan to overclock you should go for the i5-3570K, you should also look at a 3rd party heatsink. If you don't plan on ovverclocking you could save a few pennies and downgrade the motherboard to a H77.

Also, what speed of RAM do you plan to get? The ivy-bridge processors support 1600MHz out of the box and that Z77 board will run with RAM upto 2800MHz.

Oh yeah, you might want to look at a large storage hard drive. Just having an SSD can fill up pretty quick.

I think I will be doing some overclocking on this beast, so I may look at that heat sink.

The RAM speed im looking at is 1800, I think.

So, do you think adding an HDD to the SSD would work?

And finally, would those parts work well together in your opinion, kind sir Pauls3743?

  that's a beastly computer your building there.

This topic has been moved from the section CPU & Components to section Systems by Mousemonkey

I would look for a case with side cooling. Either the Corsair 500R, 400R or 300R. That MSI card vents heat into the case, not out of the back due to it's non reference cooling and the 550D is more or less a hot box when using those non reference cooling cards. Also look to change up on the psu to a 750w for some headroom. If your in the US here's a few money savers to look at.

This board is the latest from Asrock and it's the Asrock Z77 extreme3. Runs SLI/Crossfire just like the extreme4 yet it's a few dollars cheaper atm.

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