I would personally look at going with my list or Rawrs list since they both offer very good gaming performance and when you your spending 1000$ on a gaming PC you can do much better than a GTX 760. If you don't want to overclock then you can possibly make some small changes which will help save you even more money but obviously that's up to you.

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I would personally look at going with my list or Rawrs list since they both offer very good gaming performance and when you your spending 1000$ on a gaming PC you can do much better than a GTX 760. If you don't want to overclock then you can possibly make some small changes which will help save you even more money but obviously that's up to you.

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If i put that same liquid cpu cooler thing in the top, doesnt it decrease air flow since in my case the air needs to exit through the top?

I guess to a certain extent it will affect the airflow since the air has to go through the radiator instead of nothing (I could be wrong in that it doesn't affect airflow but that's me just thinking logically). What you can do is run in push and pull configuration which is very good if you do have a water cooling in your PC. If you don't know what that is I found a nice diagram.

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Your new build you put together looks good from a quick look, you maybe able to save abit of money with some things it I will have to look at it later : )

Fuck rebates because I doubt you'll take advantage of it.

- i5-4690K if you're going to overclock, i5-4460 if not.
- ETS-T40-TB performs better Hyper 212 EVO. AIO liquid coolers suck ass; just stick with air coolers. I'd only go with liquid cooling if you get a custom loop. If you decide to go with i5-4460, then you won't need an aftermarket cooler.
- Z97 motherboard for SLI compatibility.
- 8GB RAM, pretty standard.
- 128GB SSD for OS and some software (internet browser, Photoshop, After Effects, etc.)
- 1TB HDD for all other storage needs (music, pictures, games, etc.)
- GTX 970 has one of the best price:performance ratios. GTX 970 is in between GTX 780 and GTX 780 TI. GTX 760 in a $1k~ build is unacceptable.
- Define R5 is a beast case, just came out too.
- XFX PSUs are rebranded Seasonic PSUs. Seasonic is one of the best PSU manufacturers out there. Don't buy some low quality PSU that uses Taiwanese caps.
- Standard optical drive and wifi adapter.

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Or i5 4460 a nice h81 or b85 and a r9 290 that $1100 pc is now a $900 pc

dass what i said in my post. "i5-4690K if you're going to overclock, i5-4460 if not."

If he decides not to overclock, I would change up the build by a lot.

I keep my distance from AMD GPUs because of the heat they produce, but if OP is okay with having a PC + heater combo, then I'd happily include an AMD GPU.