New build, asking for advice!

[ONCB]

Hi guys, new here!

I have been out of gaming for some time now but starting to get back into it but need a new rig as I only have a laptop at the minute! I want a w/c loop but I haven't done this before so any advice would be recommended.

Here is the (would be) full build, let me know if I am missing anything or have chosen badly.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £275.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC Twin Frozr Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £209.99
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI HERO Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £169.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Windowed Midi Tower Case - Black £135.95
1 x Corsair Professional Series HX+ 750W '80+ Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020031-UK) £119.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C9 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2B2133C9) £89.99
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy Clean CSQ - Full Nickel £79.99
1 x EK Water Blocks EK 670 Full Cover Waterblock - Nickel Acetal £73.99
1 x XSPC D5 Vario with Front Cover (1/2” barbs) £66.98
4 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) HDD £46.99 (£187.96)
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Stealth 280 £45.98
1 x Bitspower Z-Multi 250mm Water Tank £39.98
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-S20BK DVD Rewriter - Retail £20.99
2 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 140mm Fan - All Black £12.98 (£25.96)
1 x Akasa AK-178-UV 12" Cold Cathode - Ultra-Violet £9.98
2 x Mayhems X1 UV Green Premixed Watercooling Fluid 1L £7.99 (£15.98)
3 x Primochill Primoflex Advanced Tubing 19/13 - Clear £5.99 (£17.97)
10 x XSPC G1/4" to 1/2" ID, 3/4" OD Compression Fitting (Chrome) £3.49 (£34.90)
Total : £1,640.30 (includes shipping : £14.75).



A couple of things to note:

I am aiming for Approx 1600 budget.
Ram and HDDs would be possible upgrades. 8gb ram would be enough to start me off and my normal HDD setup is RAID 10.
I am aware that the GPU full cover block won't fit that graphics card - I could not find the one I would get on the ocuk site so I put that one in as a place holder/rough cost. I would get a reference card.
I know I will likely need some angled fittings, I am undecided on which to go for yet.

W/c loop in the 650D would probably go like this. Res>Pump>280rad>cpu>gpu>res
This leaves me with the option in the future (or would you all say it is necessary now) to put a 120mm rad in the back and go either:
Res>Pump>280rad>120rad>cpu>gpu>res
or
Res>Pump>280rad>cpu>120rad>gpu>res

Any help and advice is much appreciated!

 

[Bluntwrapped]

At a quick glance, see if you can pick up a GTX 680 instead. You should be able to find one for the same price as the 670 even if you need to buy it used. You might even find a deal on a 680 with block fitted which could work out cheaper than the 670 + block on it's own.

It wouldn't be right to not have a SSD in there. I'd want a 64GB-120GB SSD for the OS and possibly 2 x 1TB HDD's instead of your 4x 500GB HDD's.

 

[ONCB]

Thank you.

I am looking around for a better gpu deal at the minute so hopefully I will find something that suits. I will probably get an SSD to put the OS on, aside from that I am quite set on the RAID 10 setup (4 hdds) because of past experinces with hard drive failure and performance issues.

 

[Bluntwrapped]

The more drives you have the greater the chance of failure man.

Two 1TB's in RAID 1 will essentially give you the same thing. If you then pick up a second smaller SSD you could use it as a cache to boost performance.