Upgrading fom a phenom x4

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My current CPU is a phenom x4 be 3.4ghz with gtx 660 twin frozr 2gb

I'm planning on upgrading to an intel CPU within the next two weeks this also means i have too buy an intel motherboard. This upgrade is ideally aimed at gaming. My budget is between £200 - 300. Advice is greatly appreciated
 
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We won't be able to reuse the mobo then. I'd suggest this combo :

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£169.60 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD55 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£93.62 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £263.22
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-30 16:30 BST+0100)

Grab a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO for around 25 GPB also and you'll be able to push this CPU to 4.5ghz easily: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-cpu-cooler-rr212e20pkr2

The motherboard supports SLI, too, so you can add in another GTX660 for a...
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MSI GTX 660 Twin Frozr III 2gb
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
Seagate Barracuda 500gb hardive 7200rpm 16mb
Corsair 750w psu
ASUS M4A88T-M Motherboard
Windows 8 Pro 64Bit
8gb ripjaws ram

Yes I would like too be able to overclock to around 4.2 ghz
 
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We won't be able to reuse the mobo then. I'd suggest this combo :

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£169.60 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD55 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£93.62 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £263.22
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-30 16:30 BST+0100)

Grab a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO for around 25 GPB also and you'll be able to push this CPU to 4.5ghz easily: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-cpu-cooler-rr212e20pkr2

The motherboard supports SLI, too, so you can add in another GTX660 for a SLI setup later on easily.

If SLI is not needed then a MSI Z77A_g43 would be sufficient:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£169.60 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£75.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £245.59
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-30 16:33 BST+0100)

Haswell CPUs overclock really bad, so lets put it off our list of considerations.
 
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Thanks greatly appreciated,

My current CPU fan is a hyper tx3 evo would that do the job?

I don't ever plan on having sli.

Those are great options and are ideal too what I am looking for greatly appreciated.

 
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