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The CPU your chose is of a lower class than the video card.
For someone who's price/performance conscious, you're not consistent.
If you're that sensitive to price/performance optimizations, you should get a 8800GT instead...
BUUUT, maybe you're really an AMD fanboy 
Seriously, even with a reasonable motherboard, you could overclock a cheap Intel CPU much higher, and justify your price/performance requirements.
I'm using an Asus P5K to overclock an E6750 to 3.4GHz.
Current Intel CPUs maintain lower temps, and offer higher possible clocks (and of course performance).
With a few $ more, you could get an Intel E4500, which offers much higher performance compared to the Athlon 5000+.
Check out this VERY useful article:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/c [...] out_9.html
The E4500 is shown to have a superior Price/Performance ratio over the AMD 5000+, and that's before considering overclocking, which would make this advantage bigger.
Get the Intel E2160 (not 80) 
runs perfectly fine on my DS3L and GT
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much better
except if you are going to go with that, I would get the E6750 or EVEN better the new E8400
Message edited by Silverion77 on 02-02-2008 at 07:46:51 PM
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According to an xbitlabs E8x00 review, there's a substantial in OC potential between the different models in the E8x00 family.
The E8400 should be capable of 4GHz! And that would be 4GHz of enhanced Core 2 goodness
Even lower temps and higher performance than current Core 2 Duo CPus.
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