Buying used i5 3470 and new ASUS H61m-K

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Like the title says, I found that cheap combo here in my country. I also have bought this ram and already got an Antec EA380 PSU. Are all these parts compatible and will I get an improvement worth the money over an old (Phenom II X4 940/DDR2 800 2GB ram) PC? I would use it for almost everything, some gaming when I get the GPU, programming, some photoshop etc. Thanks. :)
 
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That board has an upto date uefi bios .

The ram does 1066 CAS 7, 1333 CAS 9, 1600 CAS 10.

It supports 1600 MHz ram but I've found that most h61 boards default to 1333 - it will run fine at that anyway.
To run at 1600 you may have to drop in bios & change speed manually .

There is generally very little difference in performance at either speed with an ivy bridge CPU.

Irregardless it will work anyway with no problems.
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I saw one guy say the most noticeable difference between Intel gens is TDP so I guess it's better to go this way than taking a g4400 :)
Thanks for respoding.
Also are all parts compatible? I mean this especially for RAM.
 
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Old but near on a par with a 4460 still - its a big big improvement.
Ram is fine , will likely default to 1333 CAS 9 which is not really a problem.

There are boards with sata 3 & usb3 about , if that Asus is cheap its barebobes but decent quality.
 
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It will lower to CL9? But this is a CL10 ram. Will it crash?

Yes I know there is USB3 and Sata 3 but this was cheap and I'm used to the slower speeds anyways. Not too big of a problem for me.
Also does this board have UEFI or BIOS?
 
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That board has an upto date uefi bios .

The ram does 1066 CAS 7, 1333 CAS 9, 1600 CAS 10.

It supports 1600 MHz ram but I've found that most h61 boards default to 1333 - it will run fine at that anyway.
To run at 1600 you may have to drop in bios & change speed manually .

There is generally very little difference in performance at either speed with an ivy bridge CPU.

Irregardless it will work anyway with no problems.
 
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Then it's solved. Thanks.
 
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