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First off, im asking for your oppinions on this not for you to turn around blasting why have you done this or why that etc, if you have a good suggestion i will take it onboard but keep in mind end of the day it is my money

my budget is £1300 but aiming to be closer to £1200 if i can
The Build

Everything looks good. You might want to get the i5 3570k though, most people don't utilize the i7 to it's full potential. But if you know you're going to be using it, go ahead, it's a fantastic processor. The other thing you might want to look into is getting a WD hard drive, they have a good reputation. The WD Caviar Blue ones especially.

The last thing that I want to point out is the keyboard you picked. Are you sure you want to go with MX Red switches? Most people prefer Blue or Brown.

I would spend an extra maybe $10 to get the regular Corsair Vengeance ram with the heatsinks. They maybe low profile (dunno if you need the space) but it comes at the cost of high CAS latencies.
For 1.5V 8GB (2X4GB) you usually want to look for 9-9-9-XX CAS

Another option to lower the cost is swapping out your H80i for just an H80, but im not sure how much the cost difference will be, im going to guess at least $10 difference. The performance difference between H80(i) is minimal if it's anything like the H100(i). The main difference is that the i series comes with the ability to control a bunch of your fans and pump speed (correct me if im wrong) and it comes with better fans; the SP120 series fans I believe. Either way, performance-wise, it's minimal.

Looks like a nice setup.
I agree with Crowley however that the i5-3570k would probably be good enough (It can quite easily and safely be overclocked from 3,4 Ghz to 4,3 Ghz).

I often hear of people who want to go with a slightly higher wattage on their PSU with such a build, but in fairness i do not know if that's truly needed. I got a 750W for mine anyhow, which is a fairly similar setup.

Good luck with the build!

650w is more then enough for this build, ram im not sure i guess in the grand scheme $10 aint much its like £6 but i can get much better as for the keyboard atm thats likely to change deffo sticking with mechanical as it will be something i will notice you wont see the speed dif from i5 to i7 only reason iv gone i7 is im on a computing course thats gona last for 5 years i have the money now might aswell spend it on the best within reason ofc im not gona blast money pointlessly