150$ gaming CPU+MB?

Tdmitry

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The matter is I'm on Devils Canyon waiting, its coming up for August/September in my country, November - in worst case. So I need that PC for 3-4 month maximum

Unfortunately, some of my plans for a vacations were ruined, and now I have extra 150$ for another type of attraction - videogames. Having no work, no tasks - SO im going for gaming, surfing and some of x264 encoding for iPad.

I've already have all the components, even DDR3-1600 8GB ram (KIngSt Fury), so only I need is CPU+MB, FOR 150$

I have some prices here:

1. G3420+B85M (~135$)
2 ATHLN 760K + cutted a88X mobo - and I'm not sure if it capable to run athlon over 4 GHz (145$)

3. And 3... It is i3-2120 for 90$ now.

What do you think guys - which one should I stick to? Maybe you have some greater ideas, it would be nice to hear. Or maybe all of that sucks even now and should be a little bit expensive :D

P.S. frankly speaking, I don't think that P3420 is great for gaming tasks. Even with its Haswell cores, i think microshutterings and unresponses are waiting for me with that CPU. But if Im wrong correct me please

 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($84.74 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88X Extreme4+ ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($78.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $163.72
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-08 18:17 EDT-0400)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor ($114.50 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ECS H87H3-M3(1.0) Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($45.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $160.49
(Prices include...
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($84.74 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88X Extreme4+ ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($78.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $163.72
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-08 18:17 EDT-0400)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor ($114.50 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ECS H87H3-M3(1.0) Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($45.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $160.49
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-08 18:19 EDT-0400)
 
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