<$400 Mid range gaming computer

Ehhh no you can't use a laptop screen....maybe if you look out for some local listings you will find a nice price on a monitor....keep in mind to check the benchmarks on the graphics card you buy and see the results of the resolution you want to use on the card....you wouldn't want a 4770 on a 16xx/1xxx monitor!

And yeah that cpu should do 3.2ghz....you should read reviews and what others have gotten from the card to generate an expectation and estimation on overclocking levels...

Also i suggest you buy a 4770...if you cf two of those you have yourself in todays market around a 240$ single card...

But yeah you would be much better off with a 4770...

If you can try increasing the build budget and buy yourself a II 720...you would have a VERY VERY! powerful build for soley gaming....it would be alot stronger then the cpu you are going for now..you will need to choose a different motherboard though

At this point if i where you and im guessing you have a job atm? buy the entire build with a 720 and don't buy a graphics card just yet and with that 720 you will definitely have a much much longer lasting system....way worth the extra money...

Also you could start off with just getting 2gbs of ram...that will run and work for most any game except gta iv and maybe crysis...that will save you 20 or 30$ towards the 720...if you really want to play it smart i really really suggest going with the 720 over just about any cpu atm...its the best price vs performance for you

I actually removed my suggestion for a cheap intel dual core as an alternative before i posted....if you want to buy all of this now with the gpu and the lower power 2 core thats cool im sure it will be one hell of a beastly machine.......if it where my choice i would save up a few more bucks and go with the 720...i mean it beats the e8400/8500/8600 in benchmarks...really worth it in my opinion

And LGA 775 is dieing....so by the time you would upgrade that 2 core cpu which would be sooner than a 3 core 720...all of quad cores will have stopped in production for the 775 line...go look at the price of ram that has stopped production....im not sure which kind it is but the ram is almost 3 times as much as ddr2....when hardware stops production it can only get more expensive and harder to find

If you want something that you know you can upgrade and that will be around when you will need to upgrade go for AMD and get the 720...its worth the extra 70$ in the long run...

If you look at where games are going its FAR FAR away from dual core cpus...im sure you want to run the cpu you buy now for atleast 2 years and play the latest games without a cpu bottleneck right? if you want that go with the 720...you will have some serious performance now and in the future....in 2 or 3 years if that cpu proves to not have enough grunt then...you can upgrade to the 955 for a quad core that can hold 4 ghz or pretty close to it...

You have alot more options with an amd system at this point and for the price its well worth it man...find a good combo deal on a motherboard and save up a week or two to get your gpu.....you won't regret it