Building a Rig

almost exactly the same as mine i built 2months ago, my mobo exploded(same as yours) and need to get it replaced havnt used it yet but it looks damn epic and will handle anything you throw at it, my one advice if you plan on building yourself unless you know what your doing dont

Cool. Just give the word when your rig is finished and we can all go playing with dolphins and when you're out of dolphins you can always use the rig to get you some oil bro.

could always go the AMD route to save a few bucks! >D

actually, I use an amd something something x4 whatevers and it powers through games and my big photoshop works without any issues, so I'm pretty sold on them... though I worry about their future plans.

also, do you want the case to look pretty or keep all your expensive gadgets nice and cool... and cool means less heat damage. just sayin. >)

I have same mobo,cpu, and gpu. Wouldn't change a thing. I'm at 4.4ghz with decent temps on a cheap lil hyper 212 evo($30) and it blasts thru any and every game at 1080p. RAM is cheap, I'd up the ram to 1600mhz, it doesn't benefit you much more going higher than that.

Consider adding an SSD when you can, I added a 256gb Crucial M4 and my whole world has changed. Kind of overkill on the size since I just use it for my boot drive and a few games, but I like the option of having a decently sized SSD, and with SSD prices dropping they're starting to become more of a viable option. But SSDs are mostly a leisure than a necessity, I didn't add one to my rig until every other part was fully established and bought, but if you have money to blow, why not. And just for the record I can play any Dolphin Wii, PCSX2 game at full speed.

Everything else looks good, but I don't see your aftermarket cooler. If you're trying to save money while still wanting a great performing cooler I can't recommend the Hyper 212 EVO enough. As far as the case goes, I personally would go superior cooling over aesthetics, but that's just me.

Buying HighEnd Hardware is a WASTE OF MONEY! Look at the Games where a 670/680 can use their power?!?!?! Don't buy new hardware until the new Consoles are out, because until then Games will still be playable on Max with a 5yr old GPU.
Even PC Games like Witcher2 can be played easy on Max with a ~6850 or something.

Better get an ASUS mobo and 2x4gb 1600mhz corsair ram.

Build looks fine to me, although your PSU is higher than what you need, a decent 750W unit would be fine even for 670s in SLI. The trend at the moment is for newer parts to require less power, not more.

Make it like this.

As for the case i jost got meself an NZxT Phantom. And it's awesome.
Your RAM should be 1600MHz.
3570K is only good if you plan on overclocking. If not, get 3550.
Also, try getting an SSD for your system drive. Vertex 4 128GB should do nicely.

Don;t ever buy ASROCK mobos. EVER .

CPU - ok
GPU - ok
PSU - change to Corsair or Seasonic
MOBO - any z77 board will do it
RAM - at this moment it's so damn cheap..take 16 gb instead
CASE - depends what you like..any will do it tho
WLAN - never take usb sticks because they tend to overheat..any PCI card will do it

Was thinking of building my own pc a few months ago but then decided of just getting myself a decent laptop as im still in a student house and space is a factor as well as being able to move from place to place easily.

But I still want to eventually build my own and as such would really appreciate it if people could post links or other sources of information about how to build your own desktop especially any sources that helped you get to your current understanding.

I managed to find a few websites and videos but can always use more.

MOBO: ASRock z77 Extreme4 <- your best investment EVER

CPU is good, if you're not planning to overclock much you could just go with an i5 2500k.

GPU, i dont know much about it to be honest, just that it kinda competes with the 7950/7970, which i'm aware that are great gpus, you could search for benchmarks for nitpicking on performance/heat/noise differences.

PSU: If you're looking at possible SLI, with something like a 670 FTW or similar, you might wanna check the amp consumption on that GPU, and the amps on the 12v rail on that PSU, though for the quick google search i did, you should be ok with that setup.

MOBO is very nice, its something along the lines of what i'd pick if i had the money at the time.

That case is really nice, not just with the aesthetics, but the cable management posibilities, and the cooling posibilities for the HDDs and the rest of the components is very nice. For what i've seen it doesnt seem like there's lots of space for water cooling, but that's just something over the top if you're in for some heavy overclocking, or you really want to get a very cool environment with nearly no noise.

WLAN: not much to comment, i assume you have the router nearby and the whole network is nicely setup, personally i have a usb stick, but considering i'm playing around with the USB ports constantly (only 4 ports) it can become a problem, you should be ok for the most part.

The specs are great, I would get a Corsair PSU but thats just my preference. Don't bother getting more then 8gb of Ram,not sure why I see that mentioned anywhere in this thread, I can run a crapload of stuff and not go over 6gb(Photoshop,Mediaplayers,Browsers,etc all at the same time). Games don't use more then 8gb, most use much less...

Case: Choose colling over looks imo.

Look into the i5 2500k price for performance I believe it is better. Plus they oc like a champ I've seen reports of 4.5ghz on stock cooling.