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Soleron on 27 December 2012
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Pemalite said:
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However with that said, I have an Athlon 2 x4 620 in my brothers gaming machine that I built him and if you go into the BIOS and turn on "Advance Clock Calibration" - You may win the lottery like I did and unlock the L3 cache on that processor and turn it into a Phenom 2 x4.

Yep. Worth a try.

Now he already has a Socket AM3 compatible motherboard so if we can find the model of his motherboard *hint hint* he may just be able to buy something like a Phenom 2 x6 or Phenom 2 x4 for cheap.
Something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727

Just checked and it says compatible up to Phenom II X6. I think he needs to decide between full CPU+GPU upgrade or just a new CPU plus wait, there's no obvious choice and depends on how badly he needs the improvement.

Then drop in a Radeon 7850 (Or better) and overclock the processor and maybe upgrade the Ram to 8gb and it should be more than enough for StarCraft 2 without breaking the bank to much.
Should run pretty much any game fine really.

I wouldn't recommend OCing to someone who isn't planning to.

SC2 favours Nvidia cards according to Anandtech, if that's the main purpose of the computer (consider also the SC2 expansion comes out soon) then probably Nvidia?