Are these parts good for my computer?

[General Nick]

You have no reason to.

Is there any difference aside from obvious sockets and price?

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[Otis Da HousKat]

Is there any difference aside from obvious sockets and price?

There are a bunch of differences, mostly just differing performance levels for different types of tasks. None of them matter to the average consumer and certainly not this guy.

[Tom]

I'm no expert, but that clock speed looks pretty slow. (my year old computer has a 2.66 duel core)

[General Nick]

I'm no expert, but that clock speed looks pretty slow. (my year old computer has a 2.66 duel core)

What's wrong with a Dual Core 2.66 GHz?

It's perfectly fine for a quad core, good enough for a dual core and still good on a single core.

[Tom]

Oh I'm stupid his is a quad core. The name confused me.

[Marcem]

You have no reason to.

I have reason to.  Every AMD product in a computer I've owned has broken at some point.  My brother's laptop barely works (It crashes on the Diablo 3 site!), and he knows his way around computers.  In an older computer (And my brother's, too) we were getting constant bluescreens because of bad drivers or something that was for an ATI card.  Yeah, that's not a good thing, I can safely say that I'm not ever going to buy an AMD product again.

My only concern was the mobo, but looking at the price, that's good.  Also, I have one of those monitors, and it's great.  Just don't update its drivers through windows, it messes up the windows photo viewer.

[Tom Gunn]

Wait for Inv3rted.

[Ethan]

Looks pretty good, the video card is getting rather old and I would personally get something more powerful. It does depend on what you want to play.

Also, about the AMD/Intel thing, both of my computers have AMD processors in them, one of the computers is 6 years old. No problem whatsoever.

Whereas for nVidia, on 2 separate occasions with 2 whole separate computers, a driver update for a nVidia card has caused me to have to put in another hard drive and boot off that to get rid of the drivers. On one occasion it actually triggered an incompatibility between the OS and the Mobo and now that computer doesn't work anymore.

I've got an ATi in my current computer, and with overclocking I've made my card outperform a 9800GT in some tests while being 1/3 of the price.

[Righteous One]

The socket 775 is one of Intel's older sockets.

The newest being 1155 and before that the 1366.
If you want a more recent quad-core based CPU in your price range you should look into the i5 750.

As previously pointed out that gpu isn't very powerful.

[Reactor Worker]

The LGA1156 socket is not going to be around for very long and is set to be replaced. This means simply upgrading the processor in a few years time will not be an easy option.

Although I've never built a computer with one, I can state that AMD is quite good at sticking to a socket design for a long time and generally doesn't create different sockets purely for the sake of segmenting the market. You could quite easily go for a higher end Phenom II now, and perhaps upgrade just the CPU later. A 6-core CPU is due out some time soon.