tokala
Emperor
Several things I would like to note:
Don't be cheap an the RAM. Go for a reliable manufacturer like Kingston or Crucial, even if it's$30 $15 more for 8GB.
RAM that acts up is one of the nastiest error source in computers, the likelyhood for problems will be higher with "cheap" RAM, especially on brand new boards designs like the ones for Haswell.
One possiblke alternative:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820191517
The video card of your choice seems to be out of stock, and the the only other card available at that price has the standard nVidia cooling system, which will get noisy under load.
It looks like the prices have jumped up, and you won't get a decent 760 under $300 anymore.
There are still several good 660ti cards around $250, with that price difference those are really the more reasonable choice.
Regarding the PSU, your system with a non-overclocked i5 and a GTX760 will have a theoretical maximum power draw of about 300W. This will only be achieves when running specialized software that's designed to stress CPU as well as GPU to the max, at the same time.
Under realistic conditions, i.e. gaming, you are unlikely to get even to 250W peak load.
Most of it on the 12V rail(s)
Any quality PSU rated for 400W or more will be easily enough for that, those will deliver around 30A on 12V .
There's an additional pitfall: Haswell has a newly design voltage regulation, and has some special requirements for using some low-power modes, that may be not fulfilled by all PSU designs. Most recent products from reliable brands (see the logicalincrements list) should work, but to be safe you should chose a PSU that's explicitely "certified for Hasell" by the manufacturer.
E.g.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151124
It's rated "only" for 450W, but with 37A on 12V, it will be at least as capable as lower quality 500-600W units, and has more than enough headroom for your system. As a bonus, its quiet and highly efficient, i.e. won't produce much waste heat by itself.
By the way, those cheap "600W" PSUs that are in reality only 300-400W capable are the reason the video card manufacturers have such outrageous PSU recommendations for their cards.
That Corsair 200R case looks fine. It has very positive user comments and even was the recommendation from our leading PC magazine over here. No need for some fancy $100+case, really.
If you are concerned with heat problems, you might want to look for an aftermarket cooler for the CPU, those Haswell chips are reported to run very hot, to the point that on some bad specimens even the original Intel cooler will have problems, and in any case it will get quite noisy.
http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Hyper-Plus-RR-B10-212P-G1/dp/B002G1YPH0?tag=logicaincrem-20
appears to be an outstanding cooler for that price, not far away in performance from much more expensive parts, and still with very low noise levels.
And to reiterate, a 660ti will draw about 20% less power than a 760, for about 10% less performance at 1080p, which will help quite a bit in avoiding thermal issues.
And the GPU is the one part you are most likely to upgrade during the lifetime of the system anyway, and with only such a small difference, both of those cards will have gotten "to slow" virtually at the same point in the future.
For now, at 1080p, both are more than fast enough.
If I was in your place, I would be awfully tempted to going down even another notch to a 660 (non-ti), which wil be about 20% slower than a 760, with 30% lower power draw, especially if you can find one for $200:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162122
and simply live with either upgrading half a year earlier down the road or with slighly lower quality settings for a while before upgrading.
For getting a perspective on how close together the various $200-300 cards are, and how fast those performance differences will be made insignificant by newer models, charts like those here are useful:
http://ht4u.net/reviews/2013/55_directx11_grafikkarten_im_test/index29.php
Even a lowly middle-of-the-road gaming card like the GTX660 is faster than the fastest single-chip card money could buy two generations ago (GTX480), and more than twice as fast as the equivalent card from two generations ago (GTX460 768MB, would be a bit below the 460 1024MB).
Don't be cheap an the RAM. Go for a reliable manufacturer like Kingston or Crucial, even if it's
RAM that acts up is one of the nastiest error source in computers, the likelyhood for problems will be higher with "cheap" RAM, especially on brand new boards designs like the ones for Haswell.
One possiblke alternative:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820191517
The video card of your choice seems to be out of stock, and the the only other card available at that price has the standard nVidia cooling system, which will get noisy under load.
It looks like the prices have jumped up, and you won't get a decent 760 under $300 anymore.
There are still several good 660ti cards around $250, with that price difference those are really the more reasonable choice.
Regarding the PSU, your system with a non-overclocked i5 and a GTX760 will have a theoretical maximum power draw of about 300W. This will only be achieves when running specialized software that's designed to stress CPU as well as GPU to the max, at the same time.
Under realistic conditions, i.e. gaming, you are unlikely to get even to 250W peak load.
Most of it on the 12V rail(s)
Any quality PSU rated for 400W or more will be easily enough for that, those will deliver around 30A on 12V .
There's an additional pitfall: Haswell has a newly design voltage regulation, and has some special requirements for using some low-power modes, that may be not fulfilled by all PSU designs. Most recent products from reliable brands (see the logicalincrements list) should work, but to be safe you should chose a PSU that's explicitely "certified for Hasell" by the manufacturer.
E.g.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151124
It's rated "only" for 450W, but with 37A on 12V, it will be at least as capable as lower quality 500-600W units, and has more than enough headroom for your system. As a bonus, its quiet and highly efficient, i.e. won't produce much waste heat by itself.
By the way, those cheap "600W" PSUs that are in reality only 300-400W capable are the reason the video card manufacturers have such outrageous PSU recommendations for their cards.
That Corsair 200R case looks fine. It has very positive user comments and even was the recommendation from our leading PC magazine over here. No need for some fancy $100+case, really.
If you are concerned with heat problems, you might want to look for an aftermarket cooler for the CPU, those Haswell chips are reported to run very hot, to the point that on some bad specimens even the original Intel cooler will have problems, and in any case it will get quite noisy.
http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Hyper-Plus-RR-B10-212P-G1/dp/B002G1YPH0?tag=logicaincrem-20
appears to be an outstanding cooler for that price, not far away in performance from much more expensive parts, and still with very low noise levels.
And to reiterate, a 660ti will draw about 20% less power than a 760, for about 10% less performance at 1080p, which will help quite a bit in avoiding thermal issues.
And the GPU is the one part you are most likely to upgrade during the lifetime of the system anyway, and with only such a small difference, both of those cards will have gotten "to slow" virtually at the same point in the future.
For now, at 1080p, both are more than fast enough.
If I was in your place, I would be awfully tempted to going down even another notch to a 660 (non-ti), which wil be about 20% slower than a 760, with 30% lower power draw, especially if you can find one for $200:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162122
and simply live with either upgrading half a year earlier down the road or with slighly lower quality settings for a while before upgrading.
For getting a perspective on how close together the various $200-300 cards are, and how fast those performance differences will be made insignificant by newer models, charts like those here are useful:
http://ht4u.net/reviews/2013/55_directx11_grafikkarten_im_test/index29.php
Even a lowly middle-of-the-road gaming card like the GTX660 is faster than the fastest single-chip card money could buy two generations ago (GTX480), and more than twice as fast as the equivalent card from two generations ago (GTX460 768MB, would be a bit below the 460 1024MB).
