New PC build critique - Suggestions welcome

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Hey guys, my cousin and I are planning to build new PCs. He's much better with hardware than I am and pretty much picked out all the parts for both PCs himself. I'm pretty happy with the list of parts we have planned, but I just wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions. Here's a partial list (I won't include obvious things like the OS):

Graphics Card - EVGA GeForce GTX670 FTW Signature2 2048MB GDDR5 256-Bit, Dual DVI-D, HDMI, DP and 4-Way SLI Ready GPU Graphics Card 02G-P4-3677-KR

Hard drive - Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3000DM001

SSD - Kingston HyperX 3K 120 GB SATA III 2.5-Inch 6.0 Gb/s Solid State Drive SH103S3/120G

RAM - Kingston HyperX Beast 16 GB Kit (2x8 GB) 2400MHz DDR3 PC3-19200 Non-ECC CL11 DIMM XMP Desktop Memory KHX24C11T3K2/16X

Power Supply - Corsair Professional Series  HX 850 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Gold (HX850)

Cooling - Corsair Hydro Series Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler H100i

CPU - Intel Core i7-3770K Quad-Core Processor 3.5 GHz 8 MB Cache LGA 1155 - BX80637I73770K

Motherboard - ASUS P8Z77-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

(I really hope that's enough information about each product, I just copied and pasted from amazon)

I plan to use it almost exclusively for gaming, with some rendering here and there (hence the I7 vs the I5). At the time of writing, the full list of parts on Amazon is about $1800 or so, which I'm fine with as long as I get good performance, and I might even be willing to spend a little more if anyone has any suggestions on better parts or something. I play a lot of Planetside 2, and would absolutely LOVE to get at least 30 fps in the massive battles. Thanks for any feedback.

P.S: If Logan sees this, what game are you most looking forward to in 2014? Mine has to be Star Citizen. So stoked XD

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Your build looks solid, but it has a few flaws. Firstly, you have selected an older, somewhat overpriced GPU, you can easily fit a 7990 into your budget. Also, the cooler you selected won't give you the best performance for the price, a NZXT kraken will be more effective. Thirdly, 16gb of RAM will give you no performance increased in games, since they are 32-bit applications that cannot use more than 4gb of RAM, having 8gb is useful if you want to run other applications while gaming. Lastly, the PSU is not that great quality.

Here is what I would buy for your budget:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1AqoV

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you could easily do a haswell system why did you not?

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made a haswell build with counting in OS + more performance and doesnt break dat budget  http://pcpartpicker.com/user/goshujinsama01/saved/2kro

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you can go cheaper on the case"ALOT CHEAPER" but 800d is just cool

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1Arpe

This has everything its small super powerfull within budget and all parts can be found on amazon

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country, and budget for each

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Thanks for the feedback so far everyone. I'll do some more research and check with my cousin again.

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The next Honey Badger?

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From what I understand, Haswell CPUs are only better because they have built in video cards, as well as a few very minor improvements, or something like that. I figured it wasn't worth it because I'm getting a dedicated video card. If I heard wrong, let me know the improvements upgrading to a Haswell might give me.