Better pc help

[bigtrak]

Hey guys need some advice please

I decided to get into pc gaming after my boy taking over my ps3,
I got myself a hd6950 and a 650watt crosiar psu,
Im running it on a asus motherboard with core2 duo cough cough lol,
The idea was to upgrade my CPU to better one but it seems the best CPU I can fit on my board works out around the same price as a i5 CPU due to my board being a socket 775,
plus I will have to upgrade with some more memory which is ddr2.
So now I'm just gonna upgrade the motherboard CPU and ram
I've been looking at getting a i5 but wanted some help on which would be a good board to go with it
Any ideas people ?

If you need any other info let me know.

 

[bigtrak]

Forgot to add, on the board I've got at the moment my gpu is hanging over some of my sata ports and blocking me from using them,
I've only got access to two ports, would any of them be the same or is this a normal problem with most boards ?

Edit just looked at the link of the board you gave me thanks
would my Gpu get extra hot sitting on top of that heat sink thing ( not sure what the proper name of it is lol but I'm sure your know what I'm talking about

 

[bigtrak]

I was looking at this CPU it's a i5 2320 3ghz, reason is I'm a bit strapped for money right now so I wanted to spend is around £150 tops, would this be quick enough for gaming on ultra settings plus any ideas if it's clockable,
might be able to find a new one if I look about for a bit cheaper