Which Motherboard?

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Now i'm a bit stumped here. I'm putting together a build for my Dad, and he's on a budget of £400 including monitor, keyboard and mouse. The way i've worked this out i get about £70 for the motherboard, and i've found these two:

Sapphire PC-AM2RS790GX - AM2+

Asus M4A785TD-V EVO - AM3

Now, they're both within £1 of each other and i don't know which one to pick. The processor will be a Phenom II X2 550, but i'm unsure if the Sapphire board has the ability to unlock the cores. That would be a good selling point for the Asus. But with the AM2+ board i could save on the memory as well, and it has better graphics... anyone have any ideas? Or indeed suggestions of your own? Thanks in advance, i was going to go with the Asus but i just found this when i was searching...

Also, since i have one lying around i'm going to use a Pioneer DVR-116DBK disc drive, which is PATA. Will this be supported? This is the list of hardware:

CPU: Phenom II X2 550 / 545
Memory: Depends on the motherboard
PSU: Antec Basiq 350W
HDD: WD WD5000AAKS Blue 500GB 16MB Cache
Optical Drive: Pioneer DVR-116DBK

No graphics card... so as far as i can tell the Saphire board doesn't have the ability to unlock, but does have better graphics. There's less than 50p between, the two, so anybody got any ideas?
 
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Since the Sapphire board doesn't have ACC, are there actually any AM2+ boards that support it? Although considering that it's highly likely that the unlock would fail, i don't think it's worth buying a different motherboard because of it. Dual Core's are still good, and it should last him for a while.... what do you think?
 
Only a 770 chipset though, i was looking more at 780/785/790 since the budget won't allow for dedicated graphics. The unlock is more than likely going to be unsuccessful though, so i'm still undecided.
 
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