Please help me with my first PC build.

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krispykid

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I have never built a PC before and have no experience with computers, but I am prepared to get into PC gaming and have heard and seen that building your own is the cheapest way to do it. This is the built that I have come up with, and was wondering if anyone could suggest improvements or tweaks I should be making. I wanted to keep the build below £500 but ended up going over that by a little, so any price reductions or deals would be appreciated without substituting performance. Here's the build: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£79.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI 760GMA-P34(FX) Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£40.51 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.13 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£46.96 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£144.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.64 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply (£48.03 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.90 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £531.15
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-03 18:11 GMT+0000)
 
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i made some changes :
ram
OS
HDD
PSU (you deserves better)
GPU (270X is basically 7870 GHZ edition, so i picked that instead at lower price and better brand MSI/warranty)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£79.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI 760GMA-P34(FX) Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£40.51 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston XMP Blu Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.73 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card (£143.18 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.64 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£48.99 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£65.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £503.02
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-03 18:28 GMT+0000)
 
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krispykid

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Thanks for the reply. I took into account the things you suggested, especially the large price reduction, as well as finding a site with £10 off Windows 8, so I actually managed to get it below £500! Maybe I might buy a disk drive I'll probably only use once. Anyway, here's the build if you're interested: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£79.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI 760GMA-P34(FX) Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£40.51 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston XMP Blu Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.73 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£144.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.64 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply (£48.03 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (£60.00)
Total: £497.88
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-03 19:47 GMT+0000)

EDIT: I may just in fact go for this one, only as its a more reliable company and only slightly more expensive: http://www.cclonline.com/product/126324/11217-01-20G/Graphics-Cards/Sapphire-Radeon-R9-270X-Overclocked-Dual-X-2GB-Graphics-Card-PCI-E-DVI-HDMI-DisplayPort/VGA1942/?gclid=CJKJ04e0yboCFceWtAodhCgAtg
 
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If cclonline is trusted go for it.
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