Best Buy for 600$ Total?

You absolutely need to spend more on a motherboard. The motherboard you chose will not cut it, at all. It only supports up to 95w CPUs and you picked a 125w.

Spend a bit more on the board and get this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128519

Spend a little less on a better but lower wattage PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182131 (I have two of these, one powers my sig rig with a big ol CPU over clock, and another on a 960t box that runs 24/7 and they both run great) It's a rebranded OCZ.

Just an FYI, you will likely not be able to run the RAM at 1600mhz without overvolting the IMC. The Deneb memory controller won't be able to do it stock, at least it's very unlikely. I had two Thuban (960t's) that have a better memory controller and still wouldn't do it without a bump in voltage.

I know I didn't help you make this cheaper, but it'll be a hell of a lot better because it'll actually run and now blow up in three minutes.
Edited by Xylene - 8/20/12 at 3:50am

idk where u are in ohio but

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0325874 $89.99 if one of there stores aren't to far at least could be worth it

What will you be primarily using the system for?

Actually, motherboard costs are one of the big reasons I generally recommend Intel. Their lower-end processors are just cheaper & the i3 processors have basically equal or sometimes better performance than overclocked AMD Phenom IIs for gaming.

Let's see what we have here:

i3-2120 ($115). This is going to be as good as the Phenom II or better (the first if you were going to overclock the Phenom II to 4.0+ghz, the second if you were going to overclock lower or run stock)
Asus H61 mobo. ($50) Is cheap.
Basically the same RAM for $1 less ($43)
Bit Fenix Outlaw ($40) Decent budget case.
Antec PSU ($30) Yes, it'll run everything fine, and is an honest quality power supply. Ugly as sin, true. Don't look at it a lot.
1TB HDD ($78)
DVD-burner ($13)

http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=59192&vpn=BX80623I32120&manufacture=Intel
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=69091&vpn=P8H61%2DM%20LX%20PLUS%20REV%203%2E0&manufacture=ASUS&promoid=1371
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=60640&vpn=996995&manufacture=Mushkin%20Enhanced&promoid=1043
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=63255&vpn=BFC%2DOLW%2D100%2DKKN1%2DRP&manufacture=BitFenix&promoid=1371
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=62331&vpn=VP450&manufacture=Antec&promoid=1371
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=65701&vpn=ST1000DM003&manufacture=Others&promoid=1043
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=60857&vpn=GH24NS70&manufacture=LG%20Electronics&promoid=1371

sub-total: $369

Then depending on how you much you want to stretch your budget you get a:

Powercooler 7850 for a total of: $594 - $20 rebate.
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=69558&vpn=AX7850%202GBD5%2D2DH&manufacture=PowerColor&promoid=1043

Asus Radeon 7870 for a total of: $659 - $20 rebate.
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=69863&vpn=HD7870%2DDC2%2D2GD5&manufacture=ASUS

MSI 660ti for a total of: $669.
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=75201&vpn=N660TI%20PE2GD5%2FOC&manufacture=Others
(you can get the same from newegg for $8 more for the borderlands coupon mentioned below)

Gigabyte 7950 for a total of: $719 - $20 rebate.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125414

Normally I mix newegg & us.ncix.com orders, but ncix caught up in price in some components where they used to be behind. Nice. (They have free shipping on all orders above $50, btw).

P.S. I assumed the answer to PunkX's question above was: general gaming. If not, you would obviously want to spend much less on video card & change things around!
P.P.S. If everything worked out well at a local microcenter, you could change to an overclocked i5-3570k + z77 mobo + cpu cooler for about $125 more. But at your budget, that cuts too much into GPU to be worth it for gaming.
Edited by MisterFred - 8/20/12 at 6:44am

LOL The link goes to the Asus 7870 that was just above.

But dont forget, if u get a 660ti, u get Borderlands 2 for free

Hyper Threading.