Are my components compatible?

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Hi there, I'm currently building a new computer and have had some help from some friends in finding what I want. This is the first one I've ever built so I want to make sure that everything is compatible and I've got enough cooling and what have you. So if anyone could help me out, make any recommendations they can think of I would greatly appreciate it. I hope this is in the correct area. Here we go.

Azza Genesis 9000W XL-ATX EATX Full Tower Case
Corsair CX Series CX750 750W ATX 12V 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply
ASUS Crosshair V FORMULA-Z ATX AM3+ 990FX/SB950 DDR3 CrossFireX 3PCI-E16 SATA3 USB3.0 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX Blu Black Series 16GB 2X8GB DDR3-1600 CL10 DIMM Dual Channel Memory Kit
AMD FX-8350 8 Core Processor Socket AM3+ 4.0GHZ 16MB 125W
Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5in SATA3 MDX Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD
Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA3 64MB Cache 3.5in Internal Hard Drive
LG GH24NS95 24X SATA Internal DVD Writer Black OEM
Cooler Master R4-L2R-20AC 120mm Blue LED Case Fan 2000RPM 69CFM 19DBA 3/4 Pin
Noctua NH-D14 LGA1150/1155/1156/1366 AM3 FM1 FM2 Heatpipe Cooler w/ NF-P14 140mm & NF-P12 120mm Fan
MSI GeForce GTX 770 OC Twin Frozr IV 1098/1150MHZ 2GB 7GHZ GDDR5 2xDVI HDMI DP PCI-E 3.0 Video Card
Microsoft Windows 8 64Bit Full Version English OEM

The only thing I don't have on this list that I know of is a Network adapter. I seem unable to locate one that is compatible with Windows 8, so I'm doing more research into this but if anyone has a suggestion, the help would be great. Thank you.
 
Take a look at toms new gaming case review for gaming cases under 100.
Most of them are almost size of a full tower and can take full size gpu and coolers. The case you have is one people would use for three or four way sli system. 16 gigs of ram is somewHat of an over kill unless you do video editing or other demanding apps. Intel CPU are still the better gaming CPU. The new haswell not overly overclock friendly but if you look at most of toms and other gaming test rigs there using i7 CPU.
 


Thanks for the response :) I'm not really interested in changing the case, even if it saves me cash. Mainly because...well, I'm a chick and it's pretty and matches the rest of my stuff >.> The only way I'd change it at this point is if NOT changing it has a negative impact. RAM doesn't seem too pricey so I thought I'd go for the 16 over the 8 just so that I don't have any reason to change it in the next few years /crosses fingers. I will definitely look into the Intel CPU though and see if I can find the differences. I was told the 8 Core would still give me great speeds at a lower cost than the i7 but I'll look further.
 


Okay that being said and looking into it a bit further, are these numbers based on overclocking? Because I know nothing about it and would not be comfortable doing it myself. The price tag is much higher to get an Intel at 3.5Ghz vs the AMD at 4.0, so my question is, with no overclocking, is the Intel still better? And is the difference significant enough to warrant spending more than an extra $100 to increase the processor? Sorry if these are stupid questions, lol.
 


Fair enough, thank you. I'm not sure that I'm willing to pay another $120 for a processor so I will look into perhaps switching the AMD for the i5 since they seem to be roughly the same cost. If I do this however, do I need to change anything else or does it remain compatible?
 
Just the motherbard the intel i5 Ivery bridge CPU are 1155 pins the newer haswell i5 are 1150 pin mb. For the ram look on the mb qal list and ram vendor tested list. With haswell there a list of know good tested power supply from most power supply vendors. The new haswell low low power sleep mode is so low a lot of power supply vendors had to redo there power supplys.
 


Thank you Farah :) I've been looking into this debate since last night and while I do understand that the Intel CPU's do seem to perform better, I don't personally think the difference is going to be so great that it's worth switching away from AMD and have decided to stay with it as is provided everything is compatible. Though I do appreciate the input given about the intels earlier. I've put a lot of money into my graphics card which I'm told will be more important in terms of FR's so as long as I'm not..what's the term, bottlenecking (?) anything then I'm aiming to save money on the CPU.
 
just another thing to pop in here. Just to think about.. Intel CPU's, yes perform only slightly better, but also consume less power, come with better software and support, are less likely to bottleneck and if you for some reason go with an i7 hyper threading is amazing for things like video rendering and editing.

But then again, i dont think you should change your processor now. The amd processor is a good one dont get me wrong. Im just a perfectionist. however, just another thing (ahaha), i do think you should go with a cheaper/smaller case. You can find ones that look virtually exactly the same for half the price. Put the extra ching ching into a better processor? or graphics card?

Just some things to think about,

-Mitch
 


Thank you both for your replies. Nothing is set in stone yet, that's why I'm talking about it now, I've got another two weeks to think it all over and make some changes. So I will definitely keep putting some thought into switching to an Intel but I'm just not really sure the change is necessary for me. Though the idea of consuming less power is appealing to me.

When it comes to the case however, I'm going with Azza Genesis 9000W in white, not in black. So I actually have not had an easy time finding another white case that I really liked. There was only one company that seemed to come close (bitfenix?) but I just didn't really like the look of them. There's definitely more black cases out there then white. So this is the reason I've chosen to sink the extra money into the case.

You mentioned putting extra money into either a CPU or a graphics card. Is that to say the graphics card I've chosen would be better upgraded? I don't typically play games that are terribly demanding. I don't play FPS games at all which I know a fast response time is imperative for. I typically stick to MMO's and simulations as a general rule. So I actually thought I was over killing it already haha.
 
When you post you want a gaming pc most of us techs go three parts and the big budget killers. The power supply the gpu and the CPU. A pc that not a wallet killers would be a 650 ti or the 7870 gpu. Both of those gpu will play most mmo fine without any issues. If latter you get into higher end gamings you could add another gpu and sli or crossfire them.