What is the best Gaming PC for £600?

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I'm working on a build, and I'm weighing up my options. I definitely want to go NVIDIA and intel, but what is the best build available?
I would like 8gb DDR3 please, and I don't need hyperthreading. I'm going to be playing a lot of DOTA 2, Metro: Last Light, Titanfall, and Crysis 3 (I know it's a tricky game to handle)
I'm hoping to play on high-ultra at 1080p, and if I'm honest, at just a playable fps(about 30<)

I'm thinking this build:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3pkFM
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£149.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£74.99 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£179.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case (£63.97 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.98 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer (£15.95 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £594.03
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-10 13:48 BST+0100)

You can always change the case to a non-windowed or a different one.

This 2nd build is performance only:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (£127.19 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock B85M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£45.44 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£249.98 @ Novatech)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.90 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.98 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer (£15.95 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £593.60
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-10 13:51 BST+0100)
 
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You forgot storage.
 
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Here are the GPU benchmarks for Titanfall:
http://www.techspot.com/news/56041-titanfalls-performance-is-still-iffy-but-this-benchmark-should-answer-some-of-your-questions.html

As you can see, a GTX 760 will do just fine.

Here are the similar benchmarks for DOTA 2:
http://www.techspot.com/review/785-free-to-play-games-benchmarks/page3.html

Again, a GTX 760 will be more than sufficient.

I'm not sure about the other two games, I haven't checked benchmarks for those.
Crysis 3 is, as you also say, a beast to handle GPU wise.
But try Google for it to check benchmarks.

Do you have a 7200 rpm harddrive or a bigger SSD already which you're going to use with the new computer?
I can see you've only put in a 32 GB SSD, so I assume you have other storage at hand.
Apart from that I would add a CPU cooler like Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo, but of course that would take you further up above £600.
Otherwise the build looks fine.
XFX is the perfect choice for power supply - they make PSU's of very high quality (Seasonic inside parts).
 
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I wouldn't choose an AMD cpu btw.

Check how the CPU handles Skyrim:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/11/06/amd-fx-8350-review/6

And their conclusion (quote):

"AMD remains deeply uncompetitive in primarily single threaded applications such as games without offering the significant benefits in multi-threaded applications you’d expect from a chip boasting eight cores. Peak power consumption remains higher than Intel too and it’s these fundamental issues that mean the FX-8350 just isn’t a competitive CPU. Despite the drop in price, there’s almost no reason to opt for the FX-8350 in comparison to the Intel competition; it seems that while AMD’s changed lots of little things about the FX-8350, the end result remains largely the same."

Also read what they say about the AMD cpu here:
http://techreport.com/review/23750/amd-fx-8350-processor-reviewed/14

Quote:
"The overall performance scatter offers some good news for AMD fans: the FX-8350 outperforms both the Core i5-3470 and the 3570K in our nicely multithreaded test suite. As a result, the FX-8350 will give you more performance for your dollar than the Core i5-3570K, and it at least rivals our value favorite from Intel, the Core i5-3470.

Pop over to the gaming scatter, though, and the picture changes dramatically. There, the FX-8350 is the highest-performance AMD desktop processor to date for gaming, finally toppling the venerable Phenom II X4 980. Yet the FX-8350's gaming performance almost exactly matches that of the Core i3-3225, a $134 Ivy Bridge-based processor. Meanwhile, the Core i5-3470 delivers markedly superior gaming performance for less money than the FX-8350. The FX-8350 isn't exactly bad for video games—its performance was generally acceptable in our tests. But it is relatively weak compared to the competition."
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (£127.19 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock B85M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£45.44 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£249.98 @ Novatech)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.90 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.98 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer (£15.95 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £629.54
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-10 14:16 BST+0100)
 
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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 (£25.45 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£74.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.16 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£179.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.90 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.98 @ Aria PC)
Total: £633.40
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-10 14:53 BST+0100)
 
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Thanks, I'm seriously considering it right now. With the Hyper 212, is it likely that I'm going to reach 4.0Ghz?I know overclocking is a bit of a luck of the draw kinda thing, but provided I get a good chip?
 
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