I suggest going to a Crucial M4 128gb or Samsung 830 it should lessen your budget by a nice margin.
also might I suggest air cooling?
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO or Noctua NH-D14? or Thermalright Silver Arrow?
those should be cheaper than h100 specially the hyper 212 evo.
the noctua nh-d14 and silverarrow are on part with the h100 in terms of cooling, imo the air cooling should help you out with air circulations inside your case.
samsung spinpoint f4 1tb/2tb forgot which one, but although it is by seagate, samsung might make you sleep better.
intel SSD are good but more expensive, go crucial or samsung,
If your not dead set on the case
how about a NZXT Phantom? they should be cheap.
how about a reference Zotac/MSi/EVGA/ASUS GTX 680 just those at 499.99$
also for motherboard look at ASRock Z77 extreme something should be good for the price
For the H100, looks like it can get me that little something extra.
"Samsung might make you sleep better?" Does the drive sleep alot? I know at work people had issues with green drives with VMs running on them. Made it slow. I like to run VMs from time to time. So would like more of a black drive for that.
Yeah i am deadset on that case. love the look of it, and its features.
For the video card, most GTX 680, 7970s are priced around $540-$550 in Canada. They like to increase the prices of stuff for some reason. Even if our currency is about even.
That mushkin drive recommended above had an amazing price on it for $200. But it's sold out on that price
Ill keep looking at drive options, I probably could save a good chunk there.
All depends whats on sale when ivy comes out.