my first build and post:)

[nan the great]

I have never built a computer before, but I am looking forward to build one.

I want to build this rig for a budget around $1500-$1700 but I am a afraid that the parts I will be choosing wouldn't be compatible together so feel free to pacify me and tell me your bad experiences so that I could learn from them. Because I live in the UAE, shipping the parts would be a pain and returning them would be impossible because by the time I ship it back to amazon or newegg the 30 day period would have passed and they would simply send the parts back to me not to mention that I will have to pay for their shipping again or they would keep it with them!

I want this rig to feature the latest components from both the blue and the Green Team.

I also don't mind the m-atx form factor because it can easily support 2-way-sli and a sound card.

I will be adding the other card in sli when I buy a 4k monitor

This rig will be strictly for gaming

Please send suggestions on current generation hardware so that I can have some idea where to start building

I came here because when I went to amazon and newegg to read reviews about motherboards I had a feeling that I was gonna cancel this project because people there say that asrock sucks and that this will be the last time I will ever buy an asus board etc. Also linus mentioned that the community here is great and that I was gonna receive helpful answers. I am looking forward for your answers

THNX

[virusal19]

You won't be learning anything if you don't pick out your own list of components. Make a list and post back, from there, we can help you while you also learn. 

[iAsuno]

Haswell is coming out next week. wait and see what happens :)

[nan the great]

Corsair Professional Series  AX 850 Watt

Corsair Vengeance 8 GB ( 2 x 4 GB ) DDR3 1600 MHz

Intel Core i5-3570K

EVGA GeForce GTX780 3GB GDDR5 384bit

Corsair Obsidian Series 350D

Asus MAXIMUS V GENE Z77

Corsair H100i

Samsung 840 Series 2.5 inch 120GB

[iAsuno]

Corsair Professional Series  AX 850 Watt

Corsair Vengeance 8 GB ( 2 x 4 GB ) DDR3 1600 MHz

Intel Core i5-3570K

EVGA GeForce GTX780 3GB GDDR5 384bit

Corsair Obsidian Series 350D

Asus MAXIMUS V GENE Z77

Corsair H100i

Samsung 840 Series 2.5 inch 120GB

Nice balanced build. would drop the PSU to 650w but as you said, i you plan on doing SLI then go. but i think 4k will run better on future cards because of the memory limitations of current cards, that's just my speculation. the 4th gen i7/i5 are coming next week, might as well wait for it. :)