Just an FYI for those of you going the Athlon II X3 route: You may want to wait a few days before ordering. Today, AMD released, among other new CPUs, the Athlon II X3 440, which offers a slight clock-speed bump over the 435 (3.0 GHz vs 2.9) at the same price. It has yet to show up on Newegg, but when it does I'll update the OP.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom