I'm considering putting together this pc. I have done my research and this is what I have come up with, http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/2VcSJ It has no graphics card yet but I plan on adding one when I get the money to do so. Please state your opinions and criticism!
I will mainly be playing Minecraft on it and some other games on Steam I may occasionally host a Minecraft server on it also but just for friends and myself.
Looks pretty good.
but i'm curious, why would you get a 3570K? The 4670K is quite a bit better and is like $5 more:/
Z87 motherboard cost around the save as Z77, but have more features.
also for overclocking, the H100 isn't that great price/performance.
But i hear the new corsair water coolers are pretty good (such as the H105).
and the NZXT Kraken is also really good.
also you may want to a get a little bit better motherboard if you wish to do some decent overclocking on your cpu. (and if you are spending $100+ on a cpu cooler, you should be spending atleast $170-200 on your motherboard… Otherwise your cheap motehrboard will hold your cpu back from being stable at higher clocks and voltages, and can even cause your cheap motherboard's vrm to get damaged)
Also you may want a beefier psu aswell if you wish to oc your cpu and add a graphics card (and possibly overclock the gpu aswell).
Wen overclocking, hardware uses as much as 2x+ the power of stock!
no joke, my 4770K uses ~135-150W at full load when overclocked to 4.5ghz, when at stock is uses like 80W.
and my overclocked gtx760 which is overclocked to almost the max possible on air (1257mhz core 7.4ghz memory) will pull around 240-250W.
my system has peaked at around 500W of draw. Meaning with a similar set up you pretty much need a 750W psu (which i have the corsair HX750).
just remember to plan your build carefully for future upgrades. And that overclocking can make hardware easily push 1.5-2x power draw of stock/reference.
You can save yourself a lot of money with AMD, if you are just playing Minecraft then it's not worth paying a lot of money on a CPU like that (in my opinion) and you can use what you save on a GPU:
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/2ViWE
(don't mind the incompatibilities error, it's about updating the BIOS, but I didn't have to)
but you still selected a good rig! If you want to keep it, consider the 4670K and if you don't want to overclock the 4670