Poor college student building gaming comp - Need advice/opinions

[Curly Bill Brocius]

Greetings, first post so go easy on me.

I am a poor ol' college student and have managed to save up enough money to build myself a good rig. I am looking to spend roughly up to $1600 and want to make it a killer top end rig that will last me many years. I also am sick of lots of noise and dealing with heat issues etc. I'm looking for opinions on what I have so far, and suggestions for fans or other cooling alternatives to increase airflow and reduce vibration/rattle.

The list of parts I have so far are as follows:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130771
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151088
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236345
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131821
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119265
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231358

Not sure if there is a better way to link that. Anywho I'm obviously missing stuff like fans and maybe some thermal paste etc. I also have a 60gb SSD drive that I'm going to use as my primary OS drive, the other one is just for mass storage.

Well thanks in advance for any thoughts!
Curly Bill

 

[SprinkleOwnz-1312988]

the 7970 ghz edition is faster than a 680 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125439 thats a good 7970.(The sapphire vapor-x is out of stock D

your cpu is fine.Your psu is fine. If your going to be recording or hardcore gaming by any chance id go with a 1tb hdd.Your dvd burner is fine.That motherboard is awesome.That case looks a bit small in my opinion http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139008 that is a good case for 10 dollars more.Ram looks good. I thought u need a 128 gb ssd for windows