The ram you posted i would be wary off, i have heard/read of limited success of running quad channel ram on a trichannel motherboard. Whilst the mhz frequency is high the 11 timings are also.
The ram i use has gone out of production, you might be able to come across it on ebay/amazon Its a set ofmushkin 998826 6-8-6-24@1600 ridgebacks. Its fantastic ram and a shame its no longer in prod. I generally take a lot of time researching ram as i appreciate the value of good sticks. Corsair has gotten better (to about where they were ddr2 dominator days, early ddr3 corsair stuff was
) A tri-channel kit similar to that was made but both corsair and g.skill both were good and should be found around the place.
The Vertex 3 IOPS arent too bad, but still suffer firmware hangups, you would be better off going with a safe/reliable alternative like a Crucial M4 or a Intel 520, the samsung ssd's have been getting a good wrap lately also.
The main issue with going a sata6 drive on a RE3 is the controller on the motherboard. i think its the same marvel controller thats on the classy3 in which case the throughput will be lower than what the drive is capable of, but still better than sata2, when you move across to a more updated chipset this performance will increase.
Cooling, or rather working out how to cool a computer correctly is a bit of a science. HAF cases are build for airflow, as in they 'breathe' air alot meaning higher rpm fans will cause air to flow through the case easily lowering incase temps, if your running a waterloop you would want a big radiator with high cfm fans on it and decent low noise high cfm fans on the rest of the case to cool the outer components...
All aftermarket coolers generally require the removal of a part of the stock cooling units. so normally its the cowling and heatsink on the cards, similar to cpu cooling. Watercooled parts are normally waterjackets that fit to the cards, unlike 3rd party aircoolers some waterjackets will fit certain cards and not others so you will have to look into different gpu watercooling manufacturers to see if they have a jacket for your specific card, if the card is a reference design it should be more easy to find. non-reference cards are harder to come across.
Went with the different keyboard cause when i got the store all they had was a BF3 edition razer and i didn't think i could take the BF3 stuff off've it. I like me some clean looks, not busy.
