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The current build that I've arranged for purchase:

CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX850 (CMPSU-850AX) 850W
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3
GIGABYTE Z87X-UD3H
Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4GHz LGA 1150
CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Water Cooler
Corsair Neutron Series GTX CSSD-N240GBGTXB-BK 2.5" 240GB SATA III
Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound

Graphics card undecided. Any suggestions? Will likely invest in four additional premium 120mm fans for a push-pull RAD configuration. That RAM is $130; Trying to find something cheaper if I can without having to sacrifice timings.

Current total: $1,058. I would like to remain below $1,400.

I plan to overclock in the future, but not immediately. I already own the case, OS, etc etc.

Just to further probe on the build:

1. Case this whole thing is going in?
2. I recommend the Samsung 840 Pro(note the pro) over the Corsair Neutron
3. Note that AS5 does have a cure time, its not recommended to boot the computer right after applying AS5
4. Always when going to watercooling, You accept the risks of any damage, even if its an AIO. though at this point in time, for haswell/ivy cpus, gains are extremely minimal. Intel using TIM instead of Solder when lidding the chips made these bad thermally productive chips unless you want to avoid warranty and delid
5. Speed on the ram you are purchasing?
6. Since you are buying an 850w psu, I'm assuming you are looking to SLI/Crossfire in the future?


when it comes to GPU recommendations at this price tier:

absolute lowest i recommend for this tier:
2gb HD 7870 LE(a tahiti based(7900) card that packs a punch for its price) ~260$

general recommendations:
3gb HD 7950 (tahiti chip, cheapest with 3gb and 384 bit memory bus, will explain below) ~300$
3gb HD 7970 (Tahiti chip, more stream processors than above) ~380-400$
2gb Gtx 770 (kepler fresh chip, rebranded Gtx 680 with higher clocks and better quality memory than the 680) ~400$
3gb HD 7970 Ghz (factory overclocked 7970, value wise, its better to get a 7970 and manually do it) ~440$
5gb Gtx 780 (GK-110 based) ~650$ << expensive and most likely out of your budget


If the two cards you are interested in is the 770 and the 7970, I will pinpoint the differences between the two as of the moment:

7970 Pros
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Higher capacity to overclock(due to nvidia's green light program, voltage increases on nvidia gpus are locked) when max, will surpass the 770
3gb vram ontop of 384 bit memory bus alows for extreme heavy gameplay and more likely will survive next gen games due to the fact that next gen consoles have much more vram given to them
better general compute performance(GCN will be optimized for Adobe CS6 for example)
Comes with AAA games(depending on global location and store)
Resolution Scaling is superb(works better at 1440p then counterpart)
Crossfire Scaling generally is higher

7970 Cons
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Toasty hot
depending on model, fans can get loud under high clocks
power consumption is higher

770 Pros
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Faster Straight out of the box
Runs cooler
Newer
Ability to use Nvidia based GPU physics
Adaptive vsync allows less jerky framedrops
More stable SLI frametime
CUDA enabled programming

770 Cons
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Longevity of 2gb vram is unknown. newer games in the future will likely go past that barier(games like crysis 3 already has past the 2gb barrier)
Slightly crippled compute performance on general tasks