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I recommended this board taking into consideration that yours is a 95W processor and is listed in ASRock's Supported CPUs list. Having said that you can't go too hard on overclocking as this is a budget board.

I would suggest you to use this feature that comes with motherboard and also recommended by ASRock:

ASRock’s X-Boost Technology is a smart auto-overclocking function and is brilliantly designed to unlock the hidden cores of your CPUs. Simply press "X" when turning on the PC, X-Boost will automatically overclock the relative components to get up to 116% performance boost! With the smart X-Boost, overclocking CPU or unlock CPU cores can become a near one-button process.
* The functionality of “Unlock CPU Cores” feature might vary by different processors.

Cheers!
 
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That board is a decent entry level one from ASUS. I would say you've hit the sweet spot for 1080p by pairing i5-4570 with R9 270x. Overall a nice 1080p mid-range gaming Intel build.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Since you're looking at 720p gaming, I would recommend a decent mid range card with the following config:

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (€121.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€88.95 @ Home of Hardware DE)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (€166.70 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €377.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-18 18:00 CEST+0200

Also this graphics card doesn't require a power connector. It's entirely powered through a PCI-Express 16x Slot and needs only a good 400W PSU.

The R9 280 is for gamers who look for more than 1080p gaming.
The i5-4570T is actually a dual core with hyper threading targeted towards power conscious people, it has a TDP of only 35W. It will not perform as good as i5-4570, which is a pure quad core processor.
 
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am i gonna have 60 fps on high/ultra in games with your build?
Also i have 1 slot free in my motherboard currently. I only have apacer 1333mhz 2gb ddr3 in fist slot, can i take 4gb 1333mhz and put it in other slot?
 
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For playing "ALL" Games in high settings @ 720p. You need minimum some thing like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (€189.34 @ Home of Hardware DE)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€88.95 @ Home of Hardware DE)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (€204.32 @ Home of Hardware DE)
Total: €482.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-18 19:37 CEST+0200

And regarding the RAM, yes you can add another 4GB RAM. But again it depends on how much RAM your motherboard supports.
 
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well i found one for 80 euros 😀 im only looking for a motherboard and cpu i decided i go with i3 4160 and msi h81m-p33
 
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