Will my motherboard support my CPU?

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Yes that PSU is a reliable and great quality piece of hardware. It is quite a bit more power than you need for your setup but you can go two directions with that:

PSU's achieve their highest efficiency around ~50% load. Higher and lower power draw results in lower efficiency. So around that ~50% load, your computer is using it's least amount of power to heat generation/work done in the PSU.

The power draw of your system if you added in a reasonably high end GPU like a GTX 760 or 7950/280/280X would be right around that 300 watts max while playing some demanding games.

The other school of thought on getting a PSU that supplies a lot more power than required is to get a more quiet system. The lower the load of your computer...
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Yes, that is a wonderful processor that will serve you well in the gaming world with a discrete matching GPU but it is a locked CPU also and cannot be overclocked so keep that in mind if you are so inclined..
 
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Yes that will all be just fine together. You can overclock that i5 just a little. Sandy and Ivy i5's can be multiplier locked to their max turbo multiplier, which is generally a +4 jump which is 400mhz. Supposedly, if you leave turbo on as well, you can go even higher when turbo kicks in. Intel disabled this ability with Haswell.
 
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It's more than enough. Intel CPUs do not use much power. If you do not install any graphics card you can easily run that CPU on a 180w PSU.

The 600w PSU will allow you basically install just about any single GPU in your PC. If you are going with XFire or SLI, then it depends on which cards you install. For example, it is very likely you will be able to install a Radeon R9 290x since it's tested peak power consumption is just under 300w. However, you will likely not be able to XFire two R9 290x together since combined they can potentially use up to 600w just by themselves. Likewise, the soon to be released R9 290xx is basically two R9 290x GPUs combined and will likely consume close to 600w by itself.
 
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Yes that PSU is a reliable and great quality piece of hardware. It is quite a bit more power than you need for your setup but you can go two directions with that:

PSU's achieve their highest efficiency around ~50% load. Higher and lower power draw results in lower efficiency. So around that ~50% load, your computer is using it's least amount of power to heat generation/work done in the PSU.

The power draw of your system if you added in a reasonably high end GPU like a GTX 760 or 7950/280/280X would be right around that 300 watts max while playing some demanding games.

The other school of thought on getting a PSU that supplies a lot more power than required is to get a more quiet system. The lower the load of your computer compared to the max power of the PSU, the less the fan in the PSU will need to spin, if at all in the case of hybrid PSU's like Seasonics or other silence oriented PSU's.

Either way you look at it, that PSU may be more than you currently need but it sure will give you flexibility for a high end graphics card while keeping your system quiet and efficient.
 
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