buying cpu/mb/psu

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Limp Gawd
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I have a case, hard drive and ddr800 memory, need:
cpu:
E7200 Wolfdale. This looked like the right price point but I could easily be persuaded to another cpu.
mb:
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L. I'm not married to this board but I have another Gigabyte board and it's running pretty well for me in my WHS. The price seemed right. Onboard video would be nice because I'll be using an older video card for a while until i can afford another.
and psu:
this is something I really have no knowledge about. Will this 430w thermaltake work? It only has 2 SATA ports but that's enough. Or is it worth spending the extra $30 on a Corsair from Newegg or ZZF?

Anything wrong with the above parts?
I will have no more than 1 hard drive connected to this machine, all my storage is on a WHS so I do'nt need lots of SATA ports. This computer will be used for gaming, mostly TF2 right now, and some encoding. 8GB max memory is a must. I'm going to try my hand a little bit of overclocking but nothing too extreme.

I have a budget of about $250.
any help would be appreciated
 
If you have a Microcenter near you, the E7200 is only $99.

Spend the extra $5 on the GA-EP43-DS3L... newer, 45nm chipset refresh with more PCI-E bandwidth. Or, if you don't mind rebates, the MSI P43 Neo3-F is $84 - $10MIR.

Get a Corsair 450W from buy.com instead (or zzf).
 
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