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You could use a Z79-A instead of a Z79 Deluxe, and the differences in games would be unnoticable, but the difference in price would be $232, and you would still have the ability to install a second GPU and run SLI at a later date. Both boards have the same cpu power management and much of the same feature set, too.
Then switch the Corsair memory for PNY XLR8 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory, saving $82, ram on a whole does very little to gaming performance, the overall ammount matters but the difference between 1600mhz and 2400mhz isn't generally a massive deal.
If you absolutely must have 2400mhz ram, then Team TXWD316G2400HC10QDC01 have a 16gb 2x8gb kit for $145 which actually saves you $84.
Overclocking is a different story however, but with the primary components you've chosen there really should be little reason at all to overclock your system in any way.Your chosen monitors maximum resolution is 1080p, and you'd be hard pressed to find a game that would dip under the magic 60fps with that setup.
So with those two changes alone, you affect performance in basically undetectable degrees, but save roughly $310.
The rest is just a matter of looking at different brands/manufacturers for the same thing, generally my rule of thumb is "don't skimp on gpu, psu or cpu" everything else makes little difference.
