Originally Posted by
tetrisGOAT
The CPU is fine. If you don't intend to do heavy mediawork (produce, not partake in) or calculations, the hyper-threading, which is the one one-up it does have over the i5, the i7 is just more costly for nothing.
The concerns I'm having with your build;
* You haven't really colourmatched the RAM, for instance. That's the luxury that you do have at those budgets. Get the black ones.
* You only have one SSD, no harddrive. Do you intend to do network storing and streaming?
* Your case is out of proportion, price-wise. Are you sure you're not better off with, say, a Fractal Design Arc Midi or the 500R from Corsair? Obsidian 650D from Corsair?
* The GPU cooler is poor. I'd choose Gigabyte, but out of stock. It's the less worse of those still availible, but I'd personally never settle in that way. eVGA's warranty system is great, though.
* The PSU you selected will not handle SLI on the GTX 670.
* SLI isn't really worth it, especially not now in the lifecycle of the GTX 670. It's good enough on its own; You shouldn't need it; You barely need two for gaming across three screens at once.