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Peter, be aware that Asrock is a low end (cheap spec'ed) motherboard. It's the bottom end of the asus factory. I can honestly say that I've never been happy with any asrock mobo I have used. They have just worked, nothing more.
Also consider kicking in another $100 and getting an i7 3770. You get more cache and more threads (8cpu's in task manager) and it is quicker.
I'd advise getting all that going, then look at adding a video card. These new CPU's have memory manager, video etc built in and they are quick. No such thing as a north bridge any more. The built in video from a 3770 gets 7.6 out of 7.9 on the win7 test.
Video cards are price dependant. How much do you have to spend on one. I used to cough up about $250. My kid just spent $650 on a video card.
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