Please critique my new i5 build - I am a bit out of touch, might need help

[mynameis]

• Corsair Enthusiast TX V2 Series 750-Watt 80 Plus Bronze Certified High Performance Modular Power Supply CP-9020003-NA
• Corsair Vengeance Blue 16 GB PC3-12800 1600mHz DDR3 240-Pin SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B
• ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 LGA 1155 SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 Supported Intel P67 DDR3 1800 ATX Motherboard
• Samsung Blu-Ray Combo Internal 12XReadable and DVD-Writable Drive with Lightscribe SH-B123L/BSBP
• Intel Core i5-2500K Processor 3.3GHz 6 MB Cache Socket LGA1155 - Intel
• 2x Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Green SATA II 64 MB
• Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit (Full)
• Antec Mid-Tower Gaming Case Nine Hundred Two V3 - Antec
• EVGA GeForce GTX 570 1280 MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 2DVI-I/Mini-HDMI SLI Ready Limited Lifetime Warranty Graphics Card, 012-P3-1570-AR - EVGA
• OCZ Technology 240 GB Agility 3 SSD- 3G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive AGT3-25SAT3-240G

Going to use the SSD as the boot drive and for some games, then all media will go on the HDDs running RAID 0.

The system it is replacing:

C2D E8400 (@3.6Ghz)
8GB RAM
2x500GB in RAID0
GeForce GTX 260 896MB
Antec 300 w/EA500 PSU
ASUS P5Q Pro


Keeping my Dell 2209WA and other peripherals so only really need the tower.

 

[LNCPapa]

Great build - think you'll be very pleased with the improvement from the E8400. I had an E8400 which I upgraded from a while back too and was thoroughly impressed.

 

[red1776]

Nice build. What do you use your machine for?

 

[mynameis]

Nice build. What do you use your machine for?

Mainly building it for gaming, Deux Ex didn't run too great on my current system and I want to play Rage but I have a feeling I will get frustrated with the way it would run on my current system.

 

[red1776]

well just about anything @ 1080P should be smooth on the new one.

 

[Ritwik7]

Great build. For the case I would suggest that you take a look at the CM 690 II. In my opinion, it would be a better buy.

 

[mynameis]

Thanks for the suggestion, that does look like a better case than the Antec Nine Hundred. I did end up changing the case before I ordered but went with the Cooler Master Sniper, wanted something a bit easier to work in. I am not a big fan of side windows and the front panel option to turn off the LEDs sold me. Also had to change the memory since Amazon's price on that kit went from $91 to $242.95 if I wanted Prime shipping.

 

[B00kWyrm]

Curious if you are using stock cooling for your cpu or something else.

Reason?
I am considering a similar build.

 

[mynameis]

I was originally going to just try to get by with the stock cooling, just to be cheap, but then I did a bit of research and decided to go with the CM Hyper 212 Plus as it appears to be a great value.

I just couldn't justify buying another Zalman, they are nice but soo expensive.

 

[B00kWyrm]

I am going to start my own thread ...
Thanks for replying.