New System build

[Serberrus]

Approximate Purchase Date: Hopefully ordering the parts by the first of next month

Budget Range: about 1200

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, music preferably at the same time

Parts Not Required: Case or PSU, already purchased an NZXT phantom and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817812012

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg or any competing site, if there is a fry's electronics deal i would totally hit that up too

Country: good ol USA

Parts Preferences: Intel and Nvidia+SLI

Overclocking: Yes in the future

SLI or Crossfire: Yes in the future

Monitor Resolution: right now its going to be something low but my goal is to get a 1920x1080 monitor, possibly 2 eventually.

Additional Comments: The one part of the computer i've been confused on and need the most help on is the motherboard. Specifically im concerned that with my current selection, i will bottleneck my GPU's when i go to SLI, if anyone could clarify that would be great.

Mobo: Need lots of help on this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131806

CPU: Im pretty set on this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072

GPU: Not right away but eventually i would like to x2 this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127608

RAM: Not sure how the frequency plays in with the mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231311

Hard Drive: I plan on adding a SSD in the future
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148697

CPU Cooler: Since there so cheap and when i buy im gonna wanna play around with clock speeds.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065

Thanks!

 

[sosofm]

Buy this mobo is the same price and is not mATX.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131792
Change the RAM with this : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148421

 

[r0aringdrag0n]

Buy this mobo is the same price and is not mATX.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131792
Change the RAM with this : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148421

mATX boards are good for smaller computers, but if you're going to lay the computer and not carry it around, then an ATX board is alright. Personally I would go with this mobo:
ASRock Z68 Extreme3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157271

 

[Serberrus]

Would sticking with 8 gigs be okay? or would it be better to suck it up and go for 16 since i have the slots? And with the motherboard, would it be very expensive to upgrade to a motherboard capable of three way SLI?

 

[r0aringdrag0n]

Stick with 8GB of RAM, later on 16GB will be cheaper than today's 8GB, also, you really don't need 16GB. As for 3 way SLI, I really don't know