What do you think of the build?

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Hey guys this is my first build I am planning for gaming, I have assembled these parts for some time because I have kept on changing them, but hopefully this is final, but I am open to any and all opinions.


Intel 3770K

Corsair dominator platinum 16gb(1600mhz 2x8gb)

Asus Sabertooth Z77

Swiftech h220( I'm going to be oc'ing)

Corsair AX1200i power supply

OCZ Vector 128gb SSD for my boot and 256gb for my games (2 SSDs total)

WD 1TB black

Radeon HD 7990

Corsair 800D case

Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card


My budget is between $2000-3500 not including peripherals.
Suggestions?




 
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AMD has been promising that driver package for months. Two 780's will smoke the 7990 as I wrote before:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_780_sli_review.html

Frankly, I am really upset with AMD. They have, for years, been putting out crap CF knowing it put out runt frames and basically the CF was no better for gaming despite the increased FPS. I would not hold my breath for when the 9000 has...
This makes more sense to me, especially since there are some good combo's with the Haswell i7's:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($334.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($100.25 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($189.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($134.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($214.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card ($649.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair 400R ATX Mid Tower Case ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1810.17
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-11 01:58 EDT-0400)
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($279.99 @ Microcenter)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14 CPU Cooler ($73.00 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($194.99 @ NCIX US)
Memory: Corsair 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($364.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($84.99 @ Microcenter)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($679.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($679.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 800D ATX Full Tower Case ($269.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic Platinum 860W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($197.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $2950.89
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-11 02:06 EDT-0400)

Might as well go all the way and get a 4770K
The ASUS Sabertooth tends to trap dust under the shield. Get this one instead.
Water cooling is a lot of extra effort and risk, get this Noctua, cool and silent air.
RAM is two low profile to leave room for the CPU cooler.
Please, one 500GB is cheaper for SSD and will be easier to integrate, plenty fast.
Two GTX 780's will smoke the noisy, hot running 7990 which is being obsoleted in a few weeks. Sorry, the 7970 is faulty, all solutions run hot and noisy. And AMD's CF solution is faulty, giving useless runt frames. Nvidia has bent over backwards for smoother SLI.
The 780's are quiet, smooth, and cool.
The power supply is top quality and gives you about 100W to spare. Move up to 1000W if you want, but 1200W is simply a waste.
Not sure why you want an audio board, motherboards provide 5.1 out.
 

I was looking to get a haswell but I read several reviews including the one on tom's hardware and the guy stated that it isn't much of a upgrade form ivy or sandy bridge, plus the 3770k was better for over clocking , but I will definitely consider the 4770k because it didn't receive bad reviews, just some saying that it was not worth the upgrade from ivy or sandy. Thanks a lot for replying, it was helpful. Plus the only reason for me getting the two SSDs is because I wanted to keep one specifically for my boot and the other for other things, is it wise or just stupid?
 

You know I actually originally had settled for a 780 SLI setup, but slowly moved to the 7990 because of the Ames bundle and the fact that amd said that their drivers were going to e out soon, so it shouldn't be much of a problem, plus I was also thinking to wait for the 9000 series coming out in October(maybe). Suggestions?
 


AMD has been promising that driver package for months. Two 780's will smoke the 7990 as I wrote before:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_780_sli_review.html

Frankly, I am really upset with AMD. They have, for years, been putting out crap CF knowing it put out runt frames and basically the CF was no better for gaming despite the increased FPS. I would not hold my breath for when the 9000 has some decent drivers. AMD seems to chronically be behind in its drivers.
 
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Yeah I guess you're right, thanks a lot man. But do you think that the gtx 780s in sli will cause a CPU/gpu bottleneck with the 3770k?