New PC for gaming/streaming (~£550 or a little over)

Jaakey

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I need a new PC as my current is becoming outdated and isn't working too well anyway.

I plan to play games such as Battlefield 4, League of Legends, Diablo 3 and others, I also wish to watch things on Youtube/other sites so a good network adapter would be nice however I already have my adapter in my current system so ideally I'd prefer the money spent on a the PC, the adapter is just a bonus.

Key things for the PC: Needs a good fan/CPU cooler, CPU and GPU, 8GB+ RAM and finally a decent HDD + SSD.
(A (silent/quiet) cooler master case would also be preferred).

Sorry if this sounds too picky, I don't know too much about building systems or which are the best parts (which is why I'm asking for help). I know the basis of it and I've had help a few times before but I still need the help of somebody with experience.
 
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should play bf4 maxed out at a decent framerate of 45+fps. and for the rest maxed out 60+fps.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.45 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£98.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£60.66 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card...

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For streaming you would benefit from more cores so on that budget you probably would want to go with an amd processor
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£68.62 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£53.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£59.95 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£239.72 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master K280 ATX Mid Tower Case (£33.86 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£52.96 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £587.08
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-05 21:44 BST+0100)
 
should play bf4 maxed out at a decent framerate of 45+fps. and for the rest maxed out 60+fps.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.45 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£98.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£60.66 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card (£161.52 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.90 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£20.00 @ Maplin Electronics)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.72 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £541.22
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-05 21:47 BST+0100)
 
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an amd fx 6300 would bottleneck a gtx 770
 

It would barely give you a bottleneck.