Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P AMD 760G mATX Motherboard, AMD Phenom II X6 1045T CPU, ADATA 2x4GB Memory, Thermaltake V2 Plus Case w/ 450W PSU, Kingwin 120MM Fan $189 After $55 Rebate

The original bundle has gone up to $199.99, but an almost identical bundle @ $179.99 can be found here: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applic...CatId=5294

The new bundle lacks the extra system fan, but includes Corsair XMS3 RAM, instead of Adata

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This is a pretty good cpu for the money.

From cpubenchmark.net:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

i5-3330 (current ivy i5): 5,753
X6 1045T: 4,854
i3-3220 (current ivy i3): 4,271

These benchmarks aren't perfect of course, and also heavily take into account multi-threaded applications.

For single threaded apps intel will be better off for sure, but if you're using this cpu for any kind of encoding/rendering/etc, it's still actually a very good processor.

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If this motherboard in the bundle was an MSI I would be against this a LOT more. Gigabyte tends to use better quality mosfets. However, with that said, this is a 4-phase board without a heatsink. If you want long-term reliability or upgradeability then I highly suggest looking elsewhere. Now, if you are going to use this in a media server or HTPC and plan to downclock or downvolt the CPU then this board could be alright. Definitely stay away from this board if you plan to do folding or rendering or anything that runs the CPU at 100% for long periods of time.

Read on more here:
http://www.overclock.net/a/about-...processors

See a list of documented failures here:
http://www.overclock.net/a/databa...-incidents

Again, it was (still is?) largely a MSI problem but this is something that more people should be aware of instead of thinking that any motherboard will work as long as it says AM3 on it. There's a reason why higher end boards have 8+2 power phases with heatsinks on the mosfets.
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