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May I suggest this combo instead. The motherboard is an excellent overclocker. And very well build. The only con would be that you only get 1 PCIe slot. But I for one never bother with multi GPU configs anyways... I got my Athlon II X2 250 to 3.9Ghz (15x260mhz=3.9Ghz) on that board. I got lucky on this one and got a really good clocker (not all CPUs will clock so high becasue of manufacturing errors, including other 250s). Love it.

I would also suggest spending the $10 more on this CPU instead since you plan to OC. You get some extra stock speed and an unlocked multiplier. Really really handy for making your OC that much simplier. You can just adjust the multiplier to get your CPU to clock higher (the non-BE 710's multi will have a limit of 13, so 13x200=2.6Ghz which is stock speed, whereas the 720's will go up much much higher) You thus can isolate the CPU and then move on to increase your core speed to OC the ram and HT once your done with that. I have that CPU on the slightly more expensive 790X version of the board and have it at 3.8Ghz crrently).

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