first gaming rig

hey everybody, just wondering what you guys think of the rig i'm trying to build. I'm welcome to any suggestions, i'm building this piece by piece so price isnt the issue it's more of a time thing, takes less time to save for cheaper products tho. i'd like to be able to play FPS' and games like fallout and dragon age on this.

Case (might try and get my hands on an alienware case)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16811144133

Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16813131621

CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16819115067

RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16820231225

Hard drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16822136284

GPU (any suggestions on a cheaper yet good graphics card would be nice)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16814125333

Optics Drive (probably add a blu ray drive at a later date)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16827106334

Cooling (not sure if i'd need this type of cooling but i've always been told that having it is good)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16835186134

thanks for any help in advance

also i'm really not looking to buy a DIY pc combo or anything really wanna do this one myself

Looks good, the only thing I could suggest to you is a different case. I like the Antec line because they are very sleek and INCREDIBLY quiet. In any gaming machine, the video card will be the bottle neck so if you want to move around your budget, you could go for something a bit better and take money out from else where, such as the CPU. Quad core software is not yet here (we're still working on dual core software) so essentially it will be a bit of a waste but it will keep you warm in the winter Make sure you also account for a sweet keyboard and mouse as well as a nice monitor and quality speakers…those are things you'll be using the most on top of the computer so be sure to include them in any build budget!

is there a CPU/graphics card combo that you would recommend to go with the MB i've picked out? or maybe an entire cpu/MB/Graphics Card set up that would work pretty well?