Looks good. First thing I would change would be the CPU cooler. Get a Gelid Tranquillo or a Hyper 212 Evo, whichever is cheaper.
Second, change the HDD and PSU. These parts would be better:
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I would recommend this build mostly because the cooler is awesome, as it can be run with a single very large fan, or without any fans if you have sufficient airflow within your case. Secondly, the RAM is faster, actually, it is as fast as this motherboard supports, so you can just go into the BIOS and return it to the native speed after processor compatability knocks it down to 1866 or 1333 or whatever it goes to (the Asus website is weird about how it described it.) Thirdly, the 840 series of SSD from Samsung are excellent drives and all, for stability and whatnot, but A-data is pretty epic with transfer speeds of over 500 MB/s both read or write. Plus it is inexpensive as well. The HDD is fine, since it is just an HDD. I'm not a huge fan of the previous choice of case, but it doesn't really matter what I think about it based on aesthetics. What does matter is that the NZXT case is pretty inexpensive but has cable management options and really good airflow options thanks in large part to an entirely perforated front section. The Power supply you originally posted couldn't be found by Newegg thanks to its being discontinued, but I found a nice Corsair one that'll do the job just fine, for like, $20 less. The next obvious difference is that I upgraded the graphics card to a Sapphire Radeon 7870 XT. Because that card is pretty awesome.
This is all based off of trying to keep the overall build cost the same as the stuff you posted here, but since I don't have your pricing to compare it against, I don't know if you got a really good deal somewhere.
By the way! Excellent choice of motherboard and CPU, although it would have been awesome to get an AMD FX 8350, the FX 6300 is a good choice.
Save your money on the SSD and get a I5 and a 7870 instead. You will be much happier if you did. You can always add a SSD but if you ever want a better GPU or CPU it means you wasted your money on the cheaper one. I always like to go for the best thing I can afford and buy luxuries like SSDs or more ram etc. one at a time later on.
I second that, the SSD is a 3 bit per cell one, it's very good, but it will not perform to the maximum abilities of the SATAIII interface. I would recommend buying a Samsung 840 pro (2 bits per cell) later. The FX-6300 is only slower than an i5 in benchmarks, in real life nobody will notice the difference, except for scientific mass calculation applications. In the applications I like a PC with an AMD CPU and an AMD GPU because the AMD tweak software is very easy to use (you can e.g. make the overclock of CPU and GPU application-based, e.g. for games the system will overclock but for browsing and word processing and daily tasks, it will run at stock speeds and use less electricity). With that software, even overclocked, it probably beats an overclocked intel system in power efficiency. It only works in Windows though, not in GNU/Linux.
The FX-6300 is a CPU of a higher performance level than the 7850 GPU. I would also opt for a 7870, which isn't that much more expensive than a 7850, but is of a more comparable performance level with the FX-6300. Just because a balanced system is nicer really.
Also, I'm not sure about the PSU, I don't know anything about OCZ power supplies. I do agree with the WD, I prefer them over Seagate Barracuda HDD's, with which I've never been very lucky, but my WD's have always lasted a really long time.
Put a much better motherboard in. Also, please make sure to give some sort of indication of what country we are speccing these things out for. Because half the components I chose aren't even available in the UK.
An i5 is not the be all and end all of gaming pc's. And a 7850 is a great GPU no reason to insist on spending more on a 7870 unless he wants to increase his budget. An SSD + HDD combination is the most reliable storage combination you can use.
I had meant in the first post I made, In terms of coolers, just get whatever looks the most logical to you. Heat pipes=better heat flow into the fins. More and larger fins=better heat dissipation, the larger the fan it supports, the quieter the fan can be. I like to see at the minimum four heat pipes and at the most, six to eight depending on the design. At the point at which they start packing more than that, you usually wind up either with really thin heat pipes, ovoid heat pipes or a strange stacking of the heat pumps. The only one of these that I do really like is one by Scythe that has eight heat pipes and they have a stacked center block, but it has such a close and direct connection between all of the heat pipes that it won't make a very large difference, and the thing is simply massive.