Building a Gaming/Streaming PC

[Seze]

I am currently in the market to build a new computer. Currently I have a desktop I build a couple of years back on a budget. It runs quite nice, but just doesn't do the level of gaming that I would like it to anymore. I have also recently started to stream my games, which makes it even more of a struggle. I am however wanting to reuse as much as I could in the build. Ideally, the case/HDD at least, and possibly the RAM?

What I have in my current desktop I would like to reuse possibly:

Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146059

Ram:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231193

Harddrive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319

Reader: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136168

Cooling: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103075


I am not a huge person into looks of the desktop, so if that case would work, it would be great. I don't really have it in an extremely viewable area so the lights/etc aren't a matter.

What I have lined up to purchase unless you guys recommend otherwise:


GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125423

PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139040

RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231429

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116502 (I know this doesn't make much of a difference in gaming compared to the I5 3570(?) but I feel as if getting it may help future proof the system and give an FPS boost currently while streaming? If anyone has other comments please do share. I am not huge into the hardware world)

SSD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004W2JLB6/ref=gno_cart_title_5

Motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-LGA1155-CrossFireX-Motherboard-GA-Z77-D3H/dp/B007R21K9E/ref=sr_1_13?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1347633105&sr=1-13&keywords=asrock+z77

If there are any recommendations, it would be greatly appreciated. If you have other suggestions, feel free to post. Looking to order in the next few days.

[RickyTick]

That's a lot of ram.

For mostly gaming, you really would be better off with the i5-3570k. Unless you're doing a lot of heavy multi-tasking.

[Seze]

That's a lot of ram.

For mostly gaming, you really would be better off with the i5-3570k. Unless you're doing a lot of heavy multi-tasking.

I plan to run games in relatively high settings and stream using Xsplit as well as some things running in the background(Ventrilo or another voice com program/Steam) so if that is heavy multi-tasking, then yes.

Playing games in high settings isn't to bad to do, but add Xsplit on top of it will cut the FPS significantly. Want to decrease that as much as possible without spending an unnecessary amount.

And I could cut the ram back but I figured 16gb is relatively cheap. May end up with just 8 and expand later if need be.

[RickyTick]

Having 16gb instead of 8 is not going to hurt anything, I was just looking at it from a monetary point of view. Same goes for the processor.

[Seze]

Having 16gb instead of 8 is not going to hurt anything, I was just looking at it from a monetary point of view. Same goes for the processor.

Yeah I understand. I may actually just go with the 8gb as I knew 16 was overkill all along. Down the road there is the obvious option to upgrade if need be. May as well save some money now and maybe put it towards a new monitor.

But so far it does look like everything will work with one another right?