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Motherboard / Processor upgrade q's

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I've been running Intel quite a while, but after playing with a friend's new phenom II system, I'm thinking it may be time to upgrade.

I'm running an e6320(1.86Gzh) at 2.4GHz and 4GB of DDR2 memory. Video is a 1GB 4870, so that should be fine.

I'm thinking of the following upgrade to my system (mainly used for gaming etc):
GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz Socket AM3 80W Dual-Core Processor
CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) (x2 for 8GB total memory)

Any thoughts or concerns with moving to this setup? Anything I'm missing? I know the i5/i7 are nice, but I can get the above setup for around 400 bucks, and it just seems that the performance/$$ ratio sits with this setup right now.
 
Should be great! But it looks to me like that combo should cost closer to $300 (Newegg prices).
 
My Phenom 550BE + AM3 mobo = $200

The $100 550BE overclocks to near 4GHz and matches performance with CPUs costing $1,000. The core i7 is faster but if you divide the Benchmarks by the Price the 550BE is the sweet spot.
 
The Phenom II X2 is a good step forward but I do agree with gwarren.

Make the jump to quad core.
 
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