Is the AMD Athlon II X4 740 Quad Core Processor suitable for gaming?

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I am looking to build my gaming pc soon and it is a low budget I am thinking about using the AMD Athlon II X4 740 Quad Core Processor with the GTX 650 1GB. I was wondering if that was a suitable choice and if it can run all games on high with a decent frame rate. Games I will be playing
are (Arma 2, Dayz, Arma 3 and Battlefield 4).
 
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Budget: £500


AMD Athlon II X4 740 Quad Core Processor


MSI A78M-E35 Mini-ATX Motherboard


HyperX Blu 4GB 1600MHz DDR3


EVGA GeForce GTX 650 1GB GDDR5 Graphics Card


WD Caviar Blue 500GB SATAIII 6Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive


Corsair Builder Series CXM 430W Modular 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX/EPS PSU



 
So...Motherboard, CPU, RAM, GPU HDD and PSU is all you need? How doees this look:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3FBKQ

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£76.79 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£64.88 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£55.08 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card (£169.99 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£62.98 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £468.71
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-07 17:37 BST+0100)

That motherboard can support an FX 8320-8350 as well. There's a little room in your budget to add a samll SSD or CASE if you need to.

The 4GB GPU may be overkill, so you can downgrade to a 2GB card and save a little if you like.
 
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