First computer gaming build - need advice

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syrup

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Hi all this is my first gaming build and after doing a bit of research I have come up with the following:

1 x Cooler Master - CM 690 II Advanced Mid Tower, Black $89.99

1 x GSKILL - 4GB Ripjaws X Series PC3-12800 Dual Channel DDR3 Kit (2 x 2GB) $39.99

1 x Seagate - 500GB Barracuda 7200.12 SATA III w/ 16MB Cache $39.99

1 x Corsair - Gaming Series GS 700W Power Supply $99.99

1 x Microsoft - Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (64-bit) DVD - OEM $119.99

1 x Intel - Core™ i5-2500K Processor, 3.30GHz w/ 6MB Cache $214.99

1 x Scythe - Mugen 2 Rev. B CPU Cooler $34.99

1 x Asus - P8P67-M Rev 3.0 w/ Dual DDR3 1600, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, 1394, Quad CrossFireX $129.99

1 x Samsung - SH-S223C 22x SpeedPlus™ DVD-Writer, SATA, Black, Retail $22.99

1 x Asus - EAH6850 DirectCU Radeon HD 6850 1GB v2 PCI-E w/ Dual DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort $189.99

Total cost= ~$1000CAD

-I plan to use crossfire in the future (maybe 2 years)
-Plan to overclock a little bit
-Already have monitor, keyboard, mouse


How does this build look? Any suggestions for improvement that will keep my budget roughly the same?
 
If you want to do crossfire in the future, it might be worth getting a 6870 now and another one later. Purely because some games won't support CF properly at all, and with a 6870 you'll have a little power to get through it.

Everything else looks goof though, nice choices. Except maybe the hard drive, I'd upgrade it to a Samsung F3 1TB, not because of storage, but because it's one of the fastest 7200 RPM drives around.
 
I think its better to go with 1x4gb ram vs 2x2gb ram, its less taxing on the motherboard and also leaves room for expansion later. Also, the pc3-12800 is 1600mhz right?

But the rest sounds good
 
Going with 1x4GB leaves you with single channel memory. Half the bandwidth. If you want 8GB go with a 2x4GB kit.
 
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