What improvements to make with this build

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tmg8yc I'm looking at building this for gaming. My current budget is $1700, so I still have a bit more money to throw around into something. The CPU is available at the price I put in manually in-store-only nearby. Some things I picked were from a guide that was pretty old, since I know hardly anything about picking parts. What should I change? Will my case be enough to hold everything? Is anything overkill for the rest of the build?

Also, I noticed http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AXX0MZM/?tag=bestpsus-20 on sale for only about ten dollars more than my current power supply instead of seventy dollars more at its regular price, but it didn't show up in partpicker. Should I go for that instead?

UPDATE: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FNpyZL Alright, I think that I've made the recommended changes... Minus liquid cooling. Having read into it, I don't feel like I'm ready to deal with all that. Maybe I can switch over to liquid later. I'm still under my budget a bit. Is there anything else I should change? I just threw the rest of my budget into a monitor when I made the initial build. Is it any good?
 
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I would suggest adding liquid cooling instead of the fan. And maybe a different CPU. Maybe an i7 4770k or higher if you have the money, but go for the 'k'. And definitely want to split your RAM in to two sticks. This is my personal RAM(http://www.frys.com/product/7887489?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG) Some pretty good stuff, in my opinion. Your PSU seems a bit over kill as well, could get one similar for much better price.
Avoid getting one stick of RAM, get two to run it in dual channel for better performance. I am not sure about the "S" I7 processors or if they can be overclocked so I am not going to critique that. I think you could spend a lot less on a power supply for similar quality, such as $90. 760W is a bit much also, 650 is good.
 

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I would suggest adding liquid cooling instead of the fan. And maybe a different CPU. Maybe an i7 4770k or higher if you have the money, but go for the 'k'. And definitely want to split your RAM in to two sticks. This is my personal RAM(http://www.frys.com/product/7887489?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG) Some pretty good stuff, in my opinion. Your PSU seems a bit over kill as well, could get one similar for much better price.
 
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mdocod

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I wonder how many people on TomsHardware have actually tested the performance difference in real workloads with dual channel memory....

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Food for thought:
18-24 core products on the 2011-3 platform will be running quad channel 2133MT/s.

Single channel for 4 haswell cores is not as big of a deal performance wise as some people seem to believe. If the purpose of buying a single 8GB stick is to hit a budget while maintaining an open, non-destructive upgrade path to more RAM then there's nothing wrong with this approach. If on the other hand, it's possible to simply go for 2x8GB up front (budget allowing), that would offer some minor performance advantages, and of course, more effective "work-space."