£2000 Build - Suggestions/Improvements?

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Hi all,

Housemate has employeed me to spec his new PC. He's going to spend roughly £2k on the tower, so this is what I have come up with. Any suggestions/improvements?

CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£441.00)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 74.4 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£60.81)
Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme EATX LGA2011 Motherboard (£323.69)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£169.98)
Storage: Sandisk 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£115.97)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£64.98)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Video Card (£390.97)
Case: Cooler Master HAF X nVidia Edition ATX Full Tower Case (£157.00)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 1050W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£149.99)
Optical Drive: Asus BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer (£46.31)
Total: £1920.70
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

Cheers,

K

EDIT: Case is only really in as a price place holder as I will let him choose it.
 
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Cheers for the advice guys, PC is going to be a mix of CPU/RAM intensive work and gaming, so I will have a chat with him and see how much gaming he really will do!
 
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