Help Building my First PC

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Hello there!
I was just after (quite allot) of help in choosing what parts to choose for my new PC im planning to build!

Basically im doing this in 2 parts, First im going to build the PC and attach it to my 42 inch TV for now. However, eventually i want to have 3 27" monitors setup possibly on *moveable* Wall mounts. So when helping me choose the graphics card please bare in mind this. Also any advice on the best way to have 3 monitors would be great!

Anyways im going to save £1500 for the computer part of the build and ill get to the monitors when needed. so £1500 is my budget give or take a little (Preferably take ;).

Im looking for suggestions on all aspects of the PC so that would be great! Im not a hardcore gamer however i still want to have the option to play most games on full spec! + to show off to the geeks i work with ;) also i know i want a SSD drive to Boot with for my OS then a 2tb drive for storage.

Also any help on picking a mean\angry looking case would be awsome! preferably black with red lighting and able to see the components!

Finally i think i've decided to start with Intel Core i7 3930K with water cooling for overclocking! so if anyone could offer advice or components to build on that then thank you so much for your help!

Cheers guys (I hear you guys are the best, dont let me down haha!)
 
Case
Motherboard
Ram
Graphics Card
Hard Drives
PSU
Watercooling
Keyboard & Mouse

basically everything apart from i know i want to go with Intel Core i7 3930K :)
 
camer up with the following to give you a starting point, its under your £1,500 budget but only uses the retail cooler on the processor, not really up on my watercooling so left £150 ish, and maybe a little more if your willing to go over for possible water cooling kit.

psu is more than is needed at the moment, but i allowed extra for the water cooling kit and the possibility of sli'ing the nvidia 670 graphics card.

could drop the cpu down the to i5 version, but went with the i7 as its in budget and would be useful IF you think you do things that would make use of the hyper threading on it.

1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (02G-P4-2670-KR) £329.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £268.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256N/EU) £144.98
1 x BitFenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case - Black £119.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £84.98
1 x LG BH10LS38 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Lightscribe Drive - Black (Retail) £79.98
1 x Kingston HyperX RED Limited Edition 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3B1RK2/8GX) £43.99
1 x Logitech G300 Gaming Mouse (910-002489) £29.99
1 x Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £27.98
Total : £1,358.56 (includes shipping : £14.75).
 
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camer up with the following to give you a starting point, its under your £1,500 budget but only uses the retail cooler on the processor, not really up on my watercooling so left £150 ish, and maybe a little more if your willing to go over for possible water cooling kit.

psu is more than is needed at the moment, but i allowed extra for the water cooling kit and the possibility of sli'ing the nvidia 670 graphics card.

could drop the cpu down the to i5 version, but went with the i7 as its in budget and would be useful IF you think you do things that would make use of the hyper threading on it.

1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (02G-P4-2670-KR) £329.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £268.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256N/EU) £144.98
1 x BitFenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case - Black £119.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £84.98
1 x LG BH10LS38 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Lightscribe Drive - Black (Retail) £79.98
1 x Kingston HyperX RED Limited Edition 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3B1RK2/8GX) £43.99
1 x Logitech G300 Gaming Mouse (910-002489) £29.99
1 x Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £27.98
Total : £1,358.56 (includes shipping : £14.75).

Thats sweet thanks for you reply man! Just a few questions ;) If i were to fork out an extra few hundred pound would you suggest getting the Intel Core i7 3930K and 16 gb of ram? or would you not bother? Also to do with the graphics card, i had a look and it says it supports up to 4 monitors on the single card, would the quality of each monitor vary through the different ports or would it not make a difference?
Thanks again!
 
Thats sweet thanks for you reply man! Just a few questions ;) If i were to fork out an extra few hundred pound would you suggest getting the Intel Core i7 3930K and 16 gb of ram? or would you not bother? Also to do with the graphics card, i had a look and it says it supports up to 4 monitors on the single card, would the quality of each monitor vary through the different ports or would it not make a difference?
Thanks again!

NVidia surround I think supports 3 displays via any digital signal (HDMI, DVI-D).

For gaming, 2011 is OTT. the 3570K / 3770K is plenty already.
 
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