No PCI lock = no buy IMHO. I've heard that they don't have locks, so your overclocking may be fscked out of the gate ... relatively speaking, of course.
I'd go for a different chip as well. Nearly every current Barton 2500+ can be clocked to 2200 Mhz (3200+/11x200) at stock voltage just by changing the settings. Why spend more when you can get a disposable chip that'll run just as fast? Besides, the overclocking potential of both are equal.
As for the board, look at the NF7-S. The SATA is outstanding, the BIOS is sweet, and it is very stable and overclockable. The onboard soundstorm outperforms most consumer sound solutions under $1000 with less processor use than all of them, and the onboard 10/100 NIC is also beyond contemporary peers (really, why would most of us consider giganics?).
With the money saved in sound/board/CPU, you can now afford a 9800 Pro to drop into your machine rather than a crappy 4600. You may have even saved enough to get a second monitor to hook into your system for some in-game strategerizing ....
Moral of the story: learn to spend wisely to maximise your performance.
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