$750ish Gaming PC Help

MOBO choice depends on your need. Gaming wise, you've got more upgrade options by using a xfire mobo. USB 3/SATA 3 is pretty much the new standard though, so you shouldn't be getting a mobo w/o it.

MOBO wise this would be a better choice.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

890 chipset, USB 3 SATA 3 and xfire. However, it's dual x8 slots, so no dual gpu on a stick cards in the future. Probably not an issue for you though as the only current gen one is $700.
$125
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

GPu wise, Powercooler is a bad company to buy from. Go xfx, sapphire, gigabyte, or asus.

RAM bad timings on those, you want CAS 7 RAM.

You can get this PSU/RAM combo for example.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?Ite...

Don't need a seperate HSF unless you wanna do a high OC. Stock AMD ones are pretty decent (unlike Intel).

Thanks. I was a little leery of that GPU. Gonna go with a Sapphire Vapor-X 5770 I think.

Good to know abou the AMD stock HSF...I figure I'll only OC from 3.0 to 3.2 or so, so that should be fine.

I think I'll stick with the the CAS 9 RAM and I switched the motherboard to the MSI 870A-G54. It only does x4/x4 Crossfire, but honestly, for a casual/budget gaming build, I don't think I'm going to notice.

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Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

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ASRock 880G EXTREME3 AM3 AMD 880G SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

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A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model AD3U1333B2G9-DRH

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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders

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CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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SAPPHIRE 100283-2L Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
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NO! Dont't do that 8X and 16X is fine but 4X is bad.