Building my first PC and would like some input

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BlueFalcon above made an excellent post. Suggestions he gave you will give you an gaming enthusiast-like PC.

I personally would go a totally different route. Id spend a few weeks and hunt for deals...

For example, for black Friday, I picked up the following components:
Phenom II X4 965 - 59 bucks from tigerdirect
MSI 970A-G46 - 64 bucks, tigerdirect
Cougar Evolution full tower - 64.99 tigerdirect
8 GB of 1600mhz AMD Performance RAM - 29.99 at Canada Computers
Scythe Mine 2 Cooler 24.99 Canada Computers

I have a spare 1000 Watt OCZ PSU and Intel SSD and my other rig which is running 3570k and an EVGA FTW mobo has a GTX 670 which Im using on this build for some benchmarks.

Ive overclocked the Phenom to 4.2 GHZ as well as the RAM, NB and few other tweaks and with VSYNC on (60hz monitor should have it enabled) I honestly dont see any difference what so ever between my Intel rig which cost me 3X more. Any game out there I can run at 50-60 fps with high or ultra settings.

Who doesnt like money left over while enjoying the similar performance... :)