First gaming rig, is it good?

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ThatGuy12

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Hello, I'm picking out the parts for my very first gaming computer. I'm wondering if there is anything to change or is it fine the way it is.

PC Parts:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£131.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.44 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£99.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£67.71 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£260.14 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT Phantom (White) ATX Full Tower Case (£104.38 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.98 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.78 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £789.40
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-13 16:50 GMT+0000)

I have an £800 budget.
 
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That's a damn expensive case lol but if you like it, so be it :) Swapped it for an Intel-based system, as you'll get better overall and slightly better gaming performance.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£161.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.44 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£79.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£67.71 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£260.14 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT Phantom (White) ATX Full Tower Case (£104.38 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.98 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.78 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £799.39
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-13 16:57 GMT+0000)

Everything else looks great. Great PSU choice, HDD choice, GPU choice and RAM choice :)
 
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are you sure that intel is the better choice, I have researched slightly and the benchmarks that I've seen was that the 8350 performs better than the 4670k.



 
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Whether you decide on AMD or Intel, I would suggest a 650-750w PSU. You want a little extra room for potential upgrades and to keep it in the PSU's high efficiency range. And DDR3 1866 RAM would be a good idea as well.

Also, game performance depends on what games you will be playing and how many cores they can use. In games that are well threaded for multicore processors the i5 4670 and FX 8350 will perform almost identically. The i5 will win some, the 8350 will win some.

With that CPU cooler, you can do ~4.4GHz on stock/near stock voltage and still stay at or below 56c or so.
 
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Yes, it is probably enough, and the power draw for the CPU and GPU likely wont get higher than 375w. I was just referring to the recommended system wattage given by nvidia.
 
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He is right, intel will perform a bit better...not sure what benchmarks you were looking at. But the 8350 is still good.
 
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