Last Minute Opinions, Please Ease my mind!!

[AMOOS]

I'm about to order all these parts sometime in the next two or so days so I can build this coming weekend. Please give this new builder some advice. FYI it'll be used pretty much just for gaming, budget is $1,400.
Case: ZALMAN Z11 Plus HF1 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
MOBO: ASRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
GPU: GIGABYTE GV-R797TO-3GD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
PSU: Rosewill HIVE Series HIVE-750 750W Continuous @40°C, 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified, Modular Design, Single +12V Rail, ATX12V v2.31/EPS12V v2.92, SLI Ready, CrossFire Ready, Active-PFC Power Supply
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155
RAM: G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)
HDD: Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Op Drive: ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM
CPU Cooler: COOLER MASTER V8 RR-UV8-XBU1-GP 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler Compatible with Intel 1366/1155/775
Extra Case fan: COOLER MASTER R4-S4S-10AK-GP 140mm Case cooler
OS: Windows 7 64bit

Please let me know what you think about compatibility, performance, quality, and any other advice you have would be very much appreciated! Thanks

 

[realchaos]

Overclocking? Planning to crossfire? Purpose?

 

[manofchalk]

Don't bother with Fatal1ty branded mobo's, its the same as a cheaper board but much more expensive. Go with an Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H and use the difference to get yourself a nice SSD.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz77xd3h
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz7td120bw

Go with a Hyper 212 EVO, IMO mid-range cooling isnt worth buying. Its too close in performance to budget heatsinks, and your not far price wise from the high end heatsinks.

Rest of the rigs fine IMO, sure youl be pretty happy with it.

 

[AMOOS]

Overclocking? Planning to crossfire? Purpose?

I'm going to do a bit of over locking nothing too crazy. And eventually crossfire in probably 4ish months.

 

[AMOOS]

Don't bother with Fatal1ty branded mobo's, its the same as a cheaper board but much more expensive. Go with an Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H and use the difference to get yourself a nice SSD.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz77xd3h
http://pcpartpicvker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz7td120bw

Go with a Hyper 212 EVO, IMO mid-range cooling isnt worth buying. Its too close in performance to budget heatsinks, and your not far price wise from the high end heatsinks.

Rest of the rigs fine IMO, sure youl be pretty happy with it.

Thanks for the advice on the mobo, so there really isn't any difference between those two boards? Sorry it's my first build still learning. And I know those two coolers are about the same performance wise, but I don't mind paying a bit extra for the style lol I just really like the v8.

 

[manofchalk]

The Fatal1ty board has two more SATAIII ports, that's the only real difference I could find between the boards.

 

[RangerFromTheNorth]

With a $1400 budget I have to agree with switching out the motherboard. $210 is a lot for a build of this price-point. A full-featured Z77X Gigabyte board will save you a nice chunk of change with no performance cost to your system. ASRock seems to shine in the budget board department. I like the Extreme4 despite it's paper-thin PCB.

Also, how many HDD's are you going to mount internally? To my knowledge the Z11 Plus does not have a removable HDD cage, which was a must for me for my build to absolutely maximize airflow. I also prefer front facing panel connections since my machine is under a desk. Perhaps those aren't points of consideration for you, and the Z11 certainly has the enthusiast look that some are looking for.