I'm doing a very large upgrade to my computer since my motherboard and cpu fried quite nicely.

How does this sound? I would like to hear some input.

Core i5-2500k Processor (going to overclock soon)
MSI Z77A-G45 Motherboard (LGA 1155)
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 Memory
ASUS DVD SATA Drive
Corsair Vengeance C70 case

P.S. It's my birthday.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I haven't purchased any of this yet, but I will in the next couple days. I'm still dealing with corsair, they sent me a faulty psu after I RMA'd my broken one. I'm trying to get them to pay for shipping.

The Processor -> I would have bought an Ivy Bridge CPU, but yours is one of the most reliable and fastest.
Motherboard -> DO NOT install ANY of the software provided by MSI in the Driver Disk (except the drivers). They are bloatware.
Memory -> Can't give much info.
Case -> Don't know what's that case.
Happy birthday and have good times with the system!

The processor should be fine, unless you're video rendering I don't think it would be easy to completely max out all the cores to 100% usage to use the full power that CPU has.

Everything else should work great, nothing I can see wrong.

I have to say this. I gave my kids an AMD A4-3300 machine with 4GB of ram. I can play Diablo 3, Arkham City, Crysis 2, etc, at respectable image quality. The board, case, PSU, and RAM for $120 shipped

I have a MSI 880G motherboard (old-ish), and none of the software included was bloatware...mostly drivers and stuff...

Patrick : The problem is nowadays they include lots of useless things.

Isn't a copy of afterburner on the disk? That's something useful. Also, since this motherboard has a UEFI bios, doesn't that mean that there's a windows software interface for it on the disk?

UEFI Support is in the bootloader - You'll need to take care to install Windows through UEFI rather than through the BIOS bootloader compatibility.

That sucks. I already have windows installed on an hdd. When my computer fried, luckily it was only the mb and cpu. Also, now I'm having second thoughts, should I go with the corsair carbide 500r instead of the c70?

Both of the cases are pretty much the same,the only difference i can see is that the carbide has an extra 200mm fan on top of what the c70 has.
What GPU are you planning on putting in your new pc?

I plan on getting a 6950 around Christmas, but as for now I have a 5770 overclocked to about 1ghz that is cooled by a heavily modified accelero mono with a pretty thick thermaltake CPU fan putting out about 70-80cfm I think. It takes up about 4-5 expansion slots.

Your setup here is pretty nice Gamma. That processor should do you just fine for what you're going to be doing.

Your new pc should be very good at games,I have pretty much the same hardware except for a gtx570 and an i5 2320 cpu
and mine plays games like crysis and far cry 2 on max settings at a decent framerate so you should have no problem.