Soldato
You do realise that the G850 is basically a G620 with a 300MHZ(10%) clockspeed increase?? It is very poor value for money. The Pentium G600 and Celeron G500 series make the Pentium G800 series look overpriced.
Moreover,you are paying significantly more for the motherboard than the CPU too. You say you are going to get a new GPU and I assume that is for newer games which the HD4850 cannot handle. At that point you might find a new game likes more threads.
In the past when you could overclock cheap Intel CPUs,a more expensive motherboard made more sense,but it makes less sense nowadays, unless, you intend to get a very cheap CPU as a stop gap for a few months in lieu of a more expensive overclockable one. If you want a fully overclockable socket 1155 CPU you need to pay £150+ for a K series Core i5 - cheaper Core i5 CPUs have very limited overclockability AFAIK,due to only have a few extra multipliers. All the CPUs under a Core i5 are multiplier locked and SB has very limited bus overclocking.
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