Whats you gaming setup?

[StarsMine]

Here you go mikey, I was bored and made you a nifty shopping list. It comes to $868 INCLUDING your video card and 1TB hard drive (Compare that to $800 for just that barebone). Its got the absolute best RAM on the market PERIOD and a really nice mobo with what you need and none of the bullshit to hike price.

I made sure to give higher consideration to items with things like rebates and/or markdowns. You'll have to put the elbow time in yourself but that's half the fun! And it's cheaper than your barebone kit >.>

All items on Newegg.

1x COOLER MASTER Storm Scout SGC-2000 Black Mid Tower
1x Western Digital Cav Black 1TB 7.2kRPM 32MB Cache SATA 3Gbps HDD <- Won't make use of all 6Gbps ur board delivers, but those drives are expensive. You can expand later. (Or now )
1x MSI 870A-G54 AM3 ATX Motherboard with USB3
1x XFX Radeon HD5770 1GB PCI-e x16 <- Exact card you wanted
1x XFX Black Ed 750W CrossFire Ready MODULAR PSU <- Modular = win. Also silver certified.
2x Mushkin Enhanced BLACKLINE 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600 <- Best memory on the market. Note to buy 2 kits for the full 8GB.
1x AMD PhenomII X6 'Thuban' 2.8GHz
1x CoolIT ECO-R120 Advanced Liquid Cooling Kit (Ceramic) <- This will be the only hard part of your build, but CoolIT has really nice tutorials on installation.

Here's an alternative MoBo, its basically big brother of the board I picked, and as such it is more expensive. However, its a beast board.
MSI M90FXA-GD65 AM3 ATX Motherboard with USB3

some changes
Its a gaming PC, put more emphases on the GPU, and really that RAM is not needed unless your putting on a 2.4 ghz ram OC... and thats useless, RAM OC rarely show themselves in real world applications

CPU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-808-_-Product phenom xII 955
CPU cooler - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...20master%20212 The Best cpu cooler under 60 bucks

and if you want http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100007 for thermal paist

GPU - Either a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-518-_-Product and unlock it to a 6970
or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-565-_-Product 560
or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-418-_-Product 6870
or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-419-_-Product 6850 all of these are much better then the 5770


and more reasonable ram if he so chooses, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231428


Edit... uhm did we forget Windows?