My budget is 800, but i would like to spend a little bit less than that if possible

Yep! I bought a new copy in advance, i've also heard some people complaining about AMD drivers, would I be better off with an nvidia gpu? I've also heard SLI is better than crossfire if i added anothe ...

Why such a big HDD? Just to store more games?

It's just to store games, movies and my ever expanding music collection

I'll stick with AMD then, and as i'm still well within my budget i'm tempted to swap my current HDD for the 10000 rpm VelociRaptor HDD, or maybe get some more cooling

Yep! I bought a new copy in advance, i've also heard some people complaining about AMD drivers, would I be better off with an nvidia gpu? I've also heard SLI is better than crossfire if i added anothe ...

I've already got a copy of windows 7, and i've swapped the 3570k for the 2500k and the cooling that you recommended

This is my spec so far: http://www.scan.co.uk/savedbasket/ba096e7799f14ce380d7023d8e20027f

What about the graphics card? Will it run starcraft 2 and arma 2 reasonably well?

Because of the awkward budget i'm starting with 4gb of RAM but i will probably be able to add another 4gb a week or two after i've built it ;) i'll have a look at that case though, as long as i can fi ...

I'm on a budget of 800 so i'll probably not get a SSD and spend the money on a better HDD, probably something like the 500GB Western Digital VelociRaptor WD5000HHTZ, considering it's speed compared to ...