While I to prefer AMD over Intel, I would also recommend getting a separate heatsink. The "Boxed" CPU heatsink sucks. As TMcMahon51, it's really just a block with a really tiny tiny tiny cooler on top of it. It also gets quite loud on mediocre cpu load.
In your last link you are using Vista, not Win7?
Btw, I don't think one needs a G15 keyboard ... expansive and just for e-peen, imho.