Help building my computer

[desertwinds]

Hi everyone! I really find your community very helpful and nice so I was wondering if you guys could help me out building my new gamer desktop computer hehe. So lets see, what I'm looking to get is:

- Intel i7-3770K LGA 1155 (in this aspect i don't actually think i need overclocking, but any suggestions are welcome)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650
- Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800)

So what I need now is some advice on what motherboard should I get, it doesn't have to be any kind of great aspect neither I'm interested in the colors, just a nice one that is good for the price.
Also I don't have the case yet so any suggestions on that area would be appreciated too, and finally, do I need to chance my power supply? and would it work with my current hard drive, it being a 500 GB Sata disk?

Thanks in advance guys! And a happy new year to you all !

 

[rolli59]

Are you going to use this for gaming? If so get I5 3570K and 2x 4GB ram and a stronger GPU like HD7950/70 or GTX670.

 

[desertwinds]

Yes it is purely for gaming, yeah I have seen in a lot posts that you guys recomend the i5 series instead of the i7 thanks.
Can you tell me why the 2x4GB ram? and about the GPU, would you rather pick this
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Dual-Link-DisplayPort-Graphics-02G-P4-2678-KR/dp/B0083Y6MV6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357006628&sr=8-1&keywords=+GTX670
or this
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Dual-Link-Graphics-02G-P4-2670-KR/dp/B007Z3HZIA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1357006628&sr=8-2&keywords=+GTX670

The only difference i see is the clocking but I dont really know how much that difference would affect.

 

[rolli59]

Your board will support dual channel so 2x4GB is the way to go since 8GB is plenty for gaming. I would get the cheaper card since even with higher clocks the other one is not going to be that much faster.

 

[desertwinds]

Ok thanks a lot sir! I will surely fallow your advice
And about the board, which board should i get? Since thats why i came here in the first place xD

 

[rolli59]

4 feature rich budget boards http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007627%20600093976%20600315497%20600311010&IsNodeId=1&page=2&bop=And&CompareItemList=280%7C13-157-293%5E13-157-293-TS%2C13-131-837%5E13-131-837-02%23%2C13-130-644%5E13-130-644-TS%2C13-128-544%5E13-128-544-TS

 

[desertwinds]

Thats sweet sir! Thanks a lot I will be having so much fun this year hehe
happy new year and thanks again