First time builder looking for advice on potential build to ensure best bang for buck

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I'm ordering the parts for my new computer soon and am already massively over my original budget.
I am a gamer but mostly just playing League of Legends at the moment I spend a lot of time multitasking on my computer this is my planned build:

Intel Core i5 4690K
Gigabyte Z97X-GAMING 3 Motherboard
MSI GeForce GTX 960 Gaming 4GB
Corsair Dominator Platinum CMD8GX3M2B2133C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Samsung 850 EVO Series 120GB SSD
CoolerMaster V850 80 Plus Gold 850W Power Supply
CoolerMaster CM Storm Scout 2 Black
Corsair Air Series SP120 Red LED Fan Twin Pack
Samsung SH-224DB 24x DVDRW OEM
Microsoft Windows 8.1 32/64-bit Retail DVD

As I mentioned I can't go above this price range but I want to make sure I am getting the best build I can in that price range for instance would I be better sacrificing a little quality and getting Kingston Hyper X Fury HX318C10FRK2/16 16GB (2x8GB) Red when 8G will be enough at the moment? (Not planning on upgrading for several years.)
 
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I have 50+ Chrome tabs open plus several word docs, GIMP, and powerpoint, and I have 4 gigs of RAM + a 6 gig paging file that isn't put to full use. 8 gigabytes should be more than enough
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You should also get an r9 280/280x they are better than the gtx 960. For the ram get a nice cheap 60 dollar set ripjaws or kingnston. You dont need an 850 watt psu get a 650 n it would be future proof. Get a cm 212 evo to oc
 
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Hey thanks for the quick responses guys unfortunately my E-mail decided to put it in the wrong folder.
Yeah I decided to do that and also change the case to a Phantom-530 Thank you very much for the advice though the range is so over whelming.
I live in Australia am using PCcasegear.com and my budget has stretched to $2,000 (From $1,500 can't spend more than $2,000 atm but can add in other parts later if needed)

The site I'm buying from only has R9 280s of inferior brands. What are the advantages other than a marginally better frame rate?
I did look at an after market cooler but they don't sell the evo on the site and I don't really have room in the budget for it anyway I figure I'll just not OC till I can hopefully get one locally in a couple of weeks.
I liked it being fully modular and operating at max efficiency with minimum fan but if you don't think I'll use more than a 650 even if I decide to do an SLI, radiator+fan set up down the track then it's not worth the $80 difference that can go to the heat sink.
 
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Saphire and XFX are the only two they they have for the R9 280x however was doing some more searching and I can get an ASUS 290 for only $30 more than my MSI which I can afford if I only buy one fan (Was going to buy 3 with the new case choice but it does come with a 200mm and 140mm)
 
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Okay I'll have a better look the coolers just didn't seem up to the same standard but maybe that was just an aesthetics bias I'm also not sure how I feel about the additional heat and noise output of the 290 after some more research but going to keep looking into it as the frame rates are pretty impressive
 
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Thanks for all the advice made a revised build what do you think?

Microsoft Windows 8.1 32/64-bit Retail DVD
NZXT Phantom 530 Case Black
Kingston Hyper X Fury HX318C10FRK2/16 16GB (2x8GB) Red
Gigabyte Z97X-GAMING 3 Motherboard
Samsung SH-224DB 24x DVDRW OEM
CoolerMaster V850 80 Plus Gold 850W Power Supply
Intel Core i5 4690K
CoolerMaster SickleFlow X 120mm Red LED Fan X 2
Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition Red LED Fan
Samsung 850 EVO Series 120GB SSD
Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC 4GB
 
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Haha had just come to that conclusion myself
I did umm and ah about that but decided as I like to multi-task task having many windows and tabs open I might as well since it was $5 cheaper than the corsair was that the wrong call to make?
 
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I would still go with AMD GPU, their innovative software department created Mantle, HSA. Your GPU will be getting better and better over time unlike nVidia.

 
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thanks but already built it now ended up getting a
i5 4690K
GB z97x G3
GB 970 G1
Corsair RM650
NZXT Phantom 530
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD
2X WD blue 1TB HDD
Windows 8.1
Noctua NH-U14S
Bitfenix spectre pro 120mm
Noctua NF-F12 120mm
 
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Haha yeah it does seem to come down to opinion a lot.
Yeah great spend a lot of time on League which it doesn't even break a sweat on but also been playing SoM which it runs well on high-ultra with a solid 60fps (cap my games off there) No atm the moment they're not raid I just manually back up every couple of weeks I thought of that after I had already installed things and just decided eh I haven't been changing it that regularly anyway
 
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