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aaza7

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CPU: AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor (£94.01 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus F2A55-M LE Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard (£49.86 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: A-Data XPG Gaming Series v2.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£41.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£46.80 @ Aria PC)
Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£70.99 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£49.86 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£13.49 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £366.41
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-08-27 00:34 BST+0100)

Going to be used for general use and playing games such as Fallout and Oblivion and the occasional Photoshop session.

Massive thanks to bigshootr8 for doing this build for me any improvements opinions will be appreciated.

My budget is £450-500
 
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When you say discrete card are you saying a more powerful one for the system? (sorry I'm a tech newbie)
And is this the build you would go for? I'm really tempted to buy this :)
 
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Currently there is no GPU in this build, except the one which is integrated in cpu. Common rule for gaming is discrete gpu (opposed to integrated) performs much better. If you're budget limited, integrated is technologies are quite awesome but barely reached the limit of low end discrete gpus. So you might be fine playing non intensive games like LoL at high settings, but graphically intensive like BF3, at low settings in best scenario.
If you say your budget ceiling is 500 then i see no problem for you to get discrete videocard like radeon 7850.
 
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Continuing my last thought, if you get discrete gpu , whats the point of integrated gpu in cpu, so heres my suggestion, drop that build and start from scratch, like this

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£87.00 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 PRO3 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£55.30 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston XMP Blu Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.73 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£46.99 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card (£152.47 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Cooler Master Force 500 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.87 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£49.86 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£12.86 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £487.08
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-08-27 17:59 BST+0100)

In your budget.
Huge bump in performance cpu and gpu wise.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£85.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£58.54 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Kingston Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£53.00 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£48.36 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card (£148.46 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Zalman Z12 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£54.68 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply (£49.98 @ Ebuyer)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer (£14.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £514.00
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-08-30 00:27 BST+0100)
 
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