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the build listed below is what i have come up with. The build needs to be able to do daily tasks as well as gaming and light photoshop.
i am a noob to picking parts but heres what i have.

CASE
APEX PC-389-C Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

MOBO
GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2 AM3+ AMD 760G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

RAM
Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model KHX1333C9D3B1K2/8G

DVD DRIVE
LITE-ON Black 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model iHDS118-04 - OEM

CPU
AMD FX-6300 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6300WMHKBOX

VIDEO CARD
ASUS R9270-DC2OC-2GD5 Radeon R9 270 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

PSU
CORSAIR CX series CX500 500W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

HDD
Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

I alredy have monitor, keyboard, mouse, and os. The budget is $600 + or - $30

the total price of the build listed above is $629.92. I prefer to shop at NCIX and newegg
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 PRO3 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($45.97 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card ($210.38 @ NCIX US)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $621.29
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

here's my suggestion, requires you to shop at amazon to get that deal on the HDD, but the rest are from NCIX and newegg, it's really not too much different from yours, slightly upgraded video card and PSU, slightly downgraded RAM and optical drive, and with a 970 chipset motherboard
 
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that looks good, thanks. but i have had very bad experiances with hitachi drives so im kinda partial to seagate, also you dont think there will be reliability problems with the mobo?
 
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ah i see, yeah if you feel that way I would say switch out the hitachi drive for a seagate, then switch back to a Gigabyte/Asus 78LMT motherboard

I was really on the fence about the Asrock, on the one hand it's a newer chipset, but on the other lower quality 970 motherboards are known to have issues... the 78LMTs are older but since they support AM3+ then there's really nothing to worry about.
 
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yes it should be, the thing with fraps is that it's mostly a hard drive bottleneck, so for best results you should run fraps to record video onto a different hard drive (external or internal both work I believe) than the one you're playing minecraft from

as for minecraft itself, it's really single thread CPU heavy, but an FX 6300 should be fine if you go into the BIOS and give it a slight overclock (to 3.9Ghz, the same as a FX 6350, if the motherboard can run the FX 6350 at stock it can run a FX 6300 at 3.9)
 
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