Is this a good gaming pc for £600?

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In the summer I'm planning to build a PC for gaming,  live streaming and making YouTube videos but gaming is the most important thing. I will be gaming at 1080p and playing games like Titanfall, Arma 3, Next car game,  Splinter cell blacklist, assassin's creed black flag and Grid Autosport. I want to be able to play these games on high/ ultra settings at 30FPS but 60 would be nice. Will this be good for what I want to do?

Here is my build
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3CxLr

My main question is, will the CPU be any good for gaming? I have heard many different opinions on this CPU but I would like to hear from someone who owns it. I would also like to point out that I'm not going to be overcloking.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I would like the CPU to last me 3-4 years before I have to upgrade it. Mainly due to the fact upgrading would probably mean having to switch motherboard and that means removing a lot of parts and putting them back in.
 
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Everything but the motherboard and power supply look great :) Will get you High/Ultra in everything. I play with my 760 maxed out in all games, my lowest performance I get is in Far Cry 3 with 40 FPS maxed out.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£104.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£48.57 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£50.08 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£33.59 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card...
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For that budget, you must get a Intel i5 4670k or Intel i7-4770k, Intel CPU's are optimize for gaming because they beat AMD CPU's in single threaded performance. Intel i7 or i5 is best for video editing
 
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Everything but the motherboard and power supply look great :) Will get you High/Ultra in everything. I play with my 760 maxed out in all games, my lowest performance I get is in Far Cry 3 with 40 FPS maxed out.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£104.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£48.57 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£50.08 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£33.59 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£169.97 @ Aria PC)
Case: Zalman Z12 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£54.12 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Enermax NAXN ADV. 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£52.83 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.79 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£83.66 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £609.00
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-02 17:10 BST+0100)

The MSI 970 boards are cooled very poorly, and the CX series isn't very good quality. The Enermax here is semi-modular, and better quality :)
 
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They are; with their higher end models. The AX/GS/HX/TX are all great quality, but the CX uses small, cheaply made capacitors that aren't recommended.

Enermax, FSP, SeaSonic, and Super Flower are probably the best OEMs of power supplies. Corsair doesn't actually make any of their power supplies,
 
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