Is this a balanced system?

WarChamp

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I just bought a system, was wondering if the community at large could tell me what pitfalls or bottlenecks I may need to correct...

CAS: CFI Boreallight Full-Tower Gaming Case w/ 1x 140 & 2x 120mm Fans, Front USB 3.0, HDD Easy Swap Bays & Side-Panel Window (White Color [+0])

CD: LG 12X Internal Blu-ray Drive & DVDRW, 3D Playback Combo Drive (BLACK COLOR)

CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K 3.40 GHz 6MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150 (All Venom OC Certified)

CS_FAN: Maximum 120MM Color Case Cooling Fans for your selected case [+15] (Blue Color)

FAN: Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) (Single Enermax Enlobal Silent High Performance 120MM Fan [+15])

HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)

MB_SRT: 64GB ADATA SP900 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s - 550 MB/s Read & 505 MB/s Write [+84] (Single Drive)

MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory [-37] (G.SKILL Ripjaws X [+10])

MONITOR: * 24" Widescreen 1920x1080 ASUS VS247H-P LCD


MOTHERBOARD: * [CrossFireX/SLI] GIGABYTE Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 Chipset DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ Ultra Durable 5 Plus, On/Off
Charge 2, 7.1 HD Audio, Intel GbLAN, 3x PCIe x16 (2 Gen3, 1 Gen2), 3 PCIe x1 & 1 PCI (Extreme OC Certified) [+40]

OS: Microsoft® Windows 8 (64-bit Edition)

OVERCLOCK: Extreme OC (Extreme Overclock 20% or more)

POWERSUPPLY: 750 Watts - Thermaltake SMART Series SP-750PCBUS 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

TUNING: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K Performance Tuning Protection Plan by Intel

VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card (EVGA Superclocked ACX Cooling
 
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It looks good.

One thing I would recommend is a larger SSD. You will use all 64GB fast and want more just from windows + applications and a game or two. I have a 240GB in my desktop and I'm constantly moving games to my HDDs to fit newer ones, and my laptop has a 128GB that I basically have to keep everything that is not an application or game on an external drive to keep some space freed up (I have a lot of the adobe creative suite and some VMs on there however.)

And depending on how much you could save going to 1600 or 1866 RAM, it might make up for some of the cost of the larger SSD, and you won't even notice a performance hit. Higher clocked RAM doesn't benefit many applications besides synthetic benchmarks.

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It looks good.

One thing I would recommend is a larger SSD. You will use all 64GB fast and want more just from windows + applications and a game or two. I have a 240GB in my desktop and I'm constantly moving games to my HDDs to fit newer ones, and my laptop has a 128GB that I basically have to keep everything that is not an application or game on an external drive to keep some space freed up (I have a lot of the adobe creative suite and some VMs on there however.)

And depending on how much you could save going to 1600 or 1866 RAM, it might make up for some of the cost of the larger SSD, and you won't even notice a performance hit. Higher clocked RAM doesn't benefit many applications besides synthetic benchmarks.
 
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Cool thanks!!! I'm looking into eventually installing a 1tb hybrid drive for my steam library and such, until then I may just put my op system and 2-3 games on there, I never really play any more than that at a time, and I tend to focus on one.