Need advice building first time

[Jake-]

I have a cooler master haf 922 picked out. 2 200 mm fans, 2 80 mm fans with a cooler master Evo 212.
I'm willing to spend $2500
A balanced system is what I'm going for. For a game which uses a lot of RAM, (in this case rome 2 tw) , would you recommend amd for a gpu or nvidea?
Thinking the gpu will have to be swapped

Seems a nice case, but your spending so much money on it, don't you want a window to look at your beauty?

As for Rome 2 - its another AMD optimised game

 

[Ct yankee]

Looks like I have some research to do in the amd gpu market. Thanks again guys for all your help, would have taken me a while to put this all together on my own