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The Corsair Vengeance Pro is designed as an enthusiast product. Looking at it more closely, that is actually not a bad price for it, but we can go for a less "premium" product that will perform about the same or better and cost a bit less.

For example, I like the G.Skill Ripjaws X. It's $5 cheaper, but it supports higher speeds. The savings are not that great because that's a darn good price for the Corsair memory, but I'd still pick the G.Skill since the performance difference is minimal and I'd rather keep my $5. There is also a 2133MHz version of the RAM I posted, but it usually requires overclocking to get to those rates. It's still cheaper than the Corsair RAM, though, so it might be worth picking up.
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Any reason to get such high end RAM? It won't help much unless you're doing extreme overclocks; otherwise it's pretty much a waste of money.

Also, why use dual 1TB HDD's? It would be cheaper to get one 2TB, unless you need the drives to be physically separate for RAID or some other reason.

And I would change that PSU right away. The EVGA B series is not that good quality, and there's no point risking the rest of your nice parts to it. I'd get an XFX 550W if you don't plan on using dual cards in the future, and otherwise an EVGA G2 750.
 
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I forgot to mention I am limited to buying parts online because of my budget. Except for my graphics card. All of these I had to choose from memory express. Would all these parts from memory express be good for 1080p gaming or 1440p
 
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Memory Express still offers cheaper RAM and 2TB HDD's. That shouldn't be an issue. And there are plenty of other online retailers that could have cheaper prices; Newegg, Direct Canada, and even Amazon have very good deals regularly.

Also, forget what I said about the PSU. I mixed it up with the lower end B series. The 750 B2 is a very solid unit.
 
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Do you read? LOL. Yeah, it will on SOME games. You'll find yourself going to SLI in the near future for peformance boost.
 
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For the RAM, I don't know what you mean by high end. Could you provide me with a RAM that is cheaper and better performance?
 
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Well what I was trying to say are there any better parts for this price that will perform better at memory express?
 
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The Corsair Vengeance Pro is designed as an enthusiast product. Looking at it more closely, that is actually not a bad price for it, but we can go for a less "premium" product that will perform about the same or better and cost a bit less.

For example, I like the G.Skill Ripjaws X. It's $5 cheaper, but it supports higher speeds. The savings are not that great because that's a darn good price for the Corsair memory, but I'd still pick the G.Skill since the performance difference is minimal and I'd rather keep my $5. There is also a 2133MHz version of the RAM I posted, but it usually requires overclocking to get to those rates. It's still cheaper than the Corsair RAM, though, so it might be worth picking up.
 
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