The one downside to it is it has lower clock speeds which means as I said before, for quicker functions like games you might get let down. If you want a really good middle class processor, I suggest this: Intel Xeon E5-2609 (OEM/Tray) It has .6Ghz more than the last one, and is a fairly good CPU.

@KShim hey there, sorry for the slow reply. i dont pc game (i prefer consoles) so it would be for daily web browsing/watching youtube and of course stock trading. i use stocks to trade and trader workstation and profit.ly, so only 3 web apps. im sure the computer i built would be sufficient enough right? soon stocks to trade will integrate broker executioning so ill be down to just stocks to trade and profit.ly. thanks again for your assistance.

@KShim i forgot to mention that i currently trade on a 4 1/2 year old macbook pro using the same software and thats been running fine, which is my reason for building a cheaper build like the pc part picker list in my blog post.

Oh I see. I use ThinkorSwim which uses quite a bit of ram and about half of my processor. If you only plan to use web based systems you can probably get away with 16 gigs of ram no problem.