Water cooled Pc build

Ccally15

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Hello I'm new to the pic world. I'm a Mac lover but they aren't that great to play games on. If I build a pic I want to go big but not to big. I was wondering if anyone could give me a list of parts that would give me the best out of $1000. I also want it to be water cooled. So if anyone could give me a list of everything I need for a $1000 water cooled pc. Thank you for your time.
 
Well... there is no reason to water cool anything unless you plan to overclock. So that means a Z97 motherboard a K series CPU. With water cooling that'll eat up a lot of your budget leaving your GPU solution a bit on the weak side. If you could come up with more budget for a GTX 970 it would compliment the overclocked i5 much better, otherwise scale back to the GTX 960 or R9 280x. The 750w PSU is sized for you to add a second "large" GPU in SLI down the road if desired. You could also drop the SSD to lower cost and just go with the single traditional HD.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($226.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($92.53 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus Z97-E ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($111.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.30 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($323.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($74.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer ($13.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($87.79 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1180.53