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I know you said you weren't interested in buying parts, but just quickly checking the prices of each of those individual components, it's significantly cheaper to buy the parts and put it together yourself. I know you might not care about the price since your parents are paying for it, but trust me, your parents care. If they're willing to spend that much, why not use that much money getting an even better rig?

Not trying to start an AMD/Intel argument, but right now Intel is just so far above AMD in terms of performance that it really makes sense to at least consider going Intel. Tom's Hardware has some excellent info comparing your selected AMD with an Intel i3.

Since you said you were planning on upgrading your graphics card, you might want to consider upgrading that low end processor, too. AMD just won't be able to do that as well.

Today, Intel's LGA 1155 platform remains the best bet for a gaming rig. And not only for its budget-oriented performance, which is great, but also for its potential. Start with a cheap Core i3 and an inexpensive discrete GPU. Then, upgrade later to an Ivy Bridge-based chip and a faster graphics card without imposing any sort of bottleneck. SLI and CrossFire are both viable with a fast-enough CPU (even splitting PCI Express connectivity between two x8 slots), and the $180 Core i5-2400 is a gaming beast that AMD's overclocked processors cannot touch.

AMD simply cannot counter those advantages right now. We must look to the Piledriver architecture and hope that our current assessment can be reevaluated later this year.