$800 Build - Ordering Tomorrow HELP!

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Hey Guys, I am building my own gaming computer and I'm going to order either tomorrow or later today, so I need your help picking the rest of the parts for my build.
Approximate Purchase Date: This week.

Budget Range: $800 before rebates, $1000 with monitor and OS

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming/Internet/Work

Parts Not Required: Monitor, OS

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: NewEgg Microcenter

Approximate Purchase Date: Today Or Tomorrow

Parts Preferences: Intel i5 2500k (180 @ Microcenter)
EVGA gtx 560 ti FPB (239 @ Newegg)

Overclocking: Yes

SLI or Crossfire: Possible in the future

Monitor Resolution:1920x1080

Additional Comments: Well I need the most help picking the motherboard ( I was thinking maybe the ASRock extreme4?), PSU, and RAM( Do I need more than 4 gigs?). I will be playing a lot of GPU-demanding games such as Crysis 1 and 2, Call Of Duty, WoW, Linage, Gunz, Minecraft, and others, and I'll be amazed if the system you guys help me build will be able to max out Crysis 2 :). I am also a multi-tab person, so when I browse, I use around 10 tabs at any given time and want my computer not to freeze when I do that. Oh yeah i also have the case picked out- Antec 300 illusion( due to the 4 included fans) and would love free shipping. So yeah, comment away :)
 
Well, I'd like to say thank you to all the people that gave me advice and took part in this thread. I just ordered half the parts for the build, which were:
Cooler Master HAF 912
EVGA gtx 560 ti FPB
G.SKILL Sniper 8 GB DDR3-1600
Seagate barracuda 1tb 7200rpm SATA 6.0GB/s
Windows 7 64 bit
And a random DVD drive 😀
all of this came down to under 500 bucks- like 494 something because i found a couple of coupons that took off 25 bucks
Now, I have to buy the rest of the stuff and I'll pass by Microcenter by the end of this week to do so

Again, I'd like to thank traumadisaster, genghiskron, jackspeed, chilypepper, and Sarinaide. I'll tell you how it performs once I put it togeter :)