Best chip for a new build

[james 1]

Over the past 2 weeks I have been looking to put a brand new system together. What I will be using the system for is light gaming and just work and surfing the internet. I do plan on learning on how to OC but how much I don?t know, here is the list of my components:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition, £91.97
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products...Total-Cache-95W-Retail

Motherboard: Asus M4A785TD-V EVO, AMD 785G, £72.80
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products...-SATA-II-SATA-RAID-VGA

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz, £73.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/...01&catid=8&subcat=1387

Hard drive: Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Cache, £36.78
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124228

Optical drive: Samsung SH-S223Q/BEBN 22x DVD±R + nero, £19.54
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products...ibe-Black-OEM-plusNero

Case: NZXT M59, Black, £45.98
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products...Mid-Tower-Case-w-o-PSU

Power supply: Corsair 650W TX Series PSU, £71.99
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135514

Total: £413.06

I had a budget of £400 so I kept pretty close to it the reason I spent such a small amount of money is that I am a new system builder so if something does go wrong the cost to replace it is cheap, and the reason I have chosen to get such an overkill on the PSU is that I will be getting a 5870 when the prices come down.

I have a few question that concern me about the new build, mainly the CPU

1) Do you guys think that the 720 is better than the Athlon 620?
2) Have you guys seen anyone unlock the 720 on the motherboard I have chosen?
3) Will the G skills memory run on my motherboard, because on their website it says designed for the i5/i7, also to get it to run at 1600Mhz I have to OC the memory, is that going to be easy because I have never overclocked anything in my whole life.

Thanks James

 

[Soulkeeper]

That don't look like a bad build.
Personally I'd probably go with a gigabyte motherboard and an Athlon II x4 (620 likely)
but my needs/preferences might be slightly different.
for gaming your cpu choice is fine.

as far as the memory choice goes, i've had good experience with that brand. the "designed for" words they use just mean they and intel probably got some kinda marketing deal going on, or they plopped the memory in an intel board to verify that it worked before selling it. Should work fine with amd.

no graphics card ? just the integrated ?

 

[james 1]

I thought about the motherboard for along time but a feel that the gigabyte option is less friendly option for a new builder and I plan on overclocking the IGP and the asus motherboard does come with GPU Nos, and I think the IGP will last until the price war beings between nvidia and ATI then I will make my move.

 

[MikeShunt]

I dont think you will be dissapointed with that setup, especially that ram

 

[BD231]

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