£500 Build. Second Opinion Please

Mr Dobing

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AMD FX-6300 Black Edition 3.5GHz Socket AM3+

£83.81

Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard

£48.52


G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL 8GB DDR3 1600MHz

£63.35


Western Digital Blue 1TB SATA III 3.5" Hard Drive

£43.94


CiT Neptune Gaming Black Midi Tower Case



Corsair CX500 Builder Series 500W Power Supply

£48.02


Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Graphics Card

£187.18

Total - £509.


I know my stuff pretty well when building a PC. This is for a friend who has budget of £520~.

Just want a second opinion on the build. Sorry the post looks sloppy, I copy and pasted from the basket on the website.
 
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Hi,
-I would definitely get 970 chipset for the AM3+ processor. The 760g chipset is old and doesn't work so well with the AM3+ processors.
-Get something like Asus M5A97 R.2.0 or Gigabyte GA 970A-UD3
Here is something for your friend
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£80.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£65.46 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.54 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760...

maurelie

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Hi,
-I would definitely get 970 chipset for the AM3+ processor. The 760g chipset is old and doesn't work so well with the AM3+ processors.
-Get something like Asus M5A97 R.2.0 or Gigabyte GA 970A-UD3
Here is something for your friend
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£80.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£65.46 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.54 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£190.25 @ Aria PC)
Case: Cooler Master K380 ATX Mid Tower Case (£37.85 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£34.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £511.62
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-30 13:44 GMT+0000)
 
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maurelie

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The XFX is +12v at 34A, while the CX500 is +12v at 38A. So yes it will be enough for the GTX760, plus the XFX pro series is much more better than the CX's units(budget or entry level series), it has 5 years warranty and better parts. The total amount of wattage used buy the system will be no more than 350w.