17 and started my new job. Made a lot of mistakes in the past of buying PC's but have learned from them but still have a long way to go before being an expert on PC's. I am buying from a site called iBUYPOWER.com (CyberPower is more expensive) and their weekly special gives a 75$ off discount for free shipping on ground. I'm thinking about going with the i7-2600k because there's not much of a difference between the i7-2700k and I can afford it as well as the Nvidia 560 ti 1gb card. I was wondering what motherboard to go with?? There's a z77 series they have and an older z68 series but most of their motherboards priced are from +12$ to +102$ and I'm already at 1200$ for this PC, seeing as I don't want to order the parts myself I'm a pussy because I usually break what I touch and I very, very, VERY rarely get nice things because of that fact. Could you guys help me pick an exceptional motherboard? I'm looking for gaming + video encoding/processing. Thanks for reading - R0ckiie Motherboard ASRock Z77 Pro4 -- 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16[-$161] ASRock Z77 Extreme4 -- 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 4x USB 3.0[-$132] Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H -- 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 4x USB 3.0[-$178] [SLI] ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Performance[-$115] [SLI] ASRock Z77 Extreme6 -- 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 4x USB 3.0[-$103] [SLI] ASUS P8Z77-V[-$47] [SLI] ASUS P8Z77-V LK -- 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 4x USB 3.0[-$161] [SLI] ASUS Sabertooth Z77 -- 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 4x USB 3.0[+$0] [SLI] Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H[-$164] [SLI] Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H[-$80] [3-Way SLI] ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional -- 2x Gb LAN, 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 6x USB 3.0[-$57] [3-Way SLI] ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe[+$40] [3-Way SLI] Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 -- 2x Gb LAN, 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 6x USB 3.0
