£350 budget - need a mATX build

DracoSense

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Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: Christmas time

Budget Range: £350-£370

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Recording + Editing, Surfing the internet, Youtube, Work
Are you buying a monitor: Yes (seperate budget)
Do you need to buy OS: Yes (seperate budget)

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Scan.co.uk, Aria.co.uk (any reliant UK based supplier)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Parts Preferences: AMD, apparently AMD are so much better for budget builds.

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080p

Additional Comments: Quiet pc would be nice but not nessecary, would like a nice case thats cheap but not flimsy, don't want anything flashy. I want a PCI network card and a DVD read and write
 
unfortunately, it will end up almost £400
if you can only spend 370, you will miss 7850 and get gtx 650 ti instead

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£80.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G43 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£51.56 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£37.46 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card (£119.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.64 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£35.34 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £399.37
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-07 18:09 BST+0100)
 

kulmnar

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Really nice build, I would add one thing, a DVD burner and maybe an XFX 550W power supply (instead of the 450W). Other than that, this build works. It is the first motherboard I have seen that has out-of-the-box support for some of the Piledriver CPUs (no need to update the bios of the motherboard for the FX6300 processor). However, I don't think it is possible to game at 1920x1080 for £350. Bare minimum £400.
 

DracoSense

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I was thinking this:
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 750K Black Edition, Virgo Quad Core, S FM2, 3.4GHz, 4MB Cache, 100W, Retail
Motherboard: MSI FM2-A75MA-P33, AMD A75, FM2, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, RAID, PCIe 2.0 (x16), D-Sub/DVI-D, Micro ATX
Power supply: 500W Silverstone Strider SST-ST50F-ES, 80% Eff', 80 PLUS, SLI/CrossFire, EPS 12V, Quiet Fan, ATX v2.3, PSU
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 Black micro-ATX Mini Tower Performance Case with 120mm Quiet Fan w/o PSU
Hard Drive: 500GB Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5ms, NCQ
Ram: 4GB Corsair DDR3 Desktop PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 11-11-11-30, 1.5V
GPU: 1GB XFX Radeon HD 7790 Core Edition, 6400MHz GDDR5, 28nm, GPU 1075MHz, Cores 896, DP/ 2x DL DVI/ HDMI
Disk Drive: LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, SATA, Black, OEM