In my opinion for the small price difference you're better off with the 930 and the MB you have picked out. That way it gives you more options in the future. In a few years if you want to upgrade a little more you can always add a second video card and another 6 gigs of ram (once 64bit applications are the standard). You'll actually see better performance out of the i7's with multi-GPU's and 12 gigs of ram it's just that almost no applications support that at this point. Essentially I'd opt for the future proofing for the little bit extra money.
One other thing is the size of the video card, when you first get everything just check to make sure the card will fit in the case. I bought a Full ATX case and could barely fit my GTX260 in. The 5770 is shorter, but just something to watch out for. Also the thickness of that card will block the slot below it, which shouldn't be an issue since there are plenty of slots and you're not adding anything else, just FYI.
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