Gaming Rig, £550 budget, opinions / improvements?

Vistaf

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Hello, i recently have been saving up for a pc (for gaming) and i currently only have a £550 / £560 budget, and that's the highest i will go.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/bZjFYJ

I would love to know your opinions / any improvements that you have to this PC.

I plan on playing games like DayZ (Mod and standalone) CS:GO, Rust, Minecraft, maybe battlefield (if it even runs).

If it is possible could i also get a rough estimate on FPS in them games ^ ?

Thanks alot
-Vistaf
 

BustaRhymes

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It's a decent system, I would try to get a 970 chipset motherboard though, yours is 760G.

Also if your trying to play next gen games i would get a r9 280 if you can squeeze it into your budget as it has 3 GB of VRAM instead of 2.

But even the way your computer is now you shouldn't have trouble getting 60fps on high settings for all of those games, including battlefield.
 

Vistaf

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http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9280atdfd

That one? (Thats the cheapest 280 there is). What difference would this GPU make over the 290x?
 

BustaRhymes

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Well the 280 is better all around, most notable is the extra 500 processors, the 3GB of VRAM, and the 356bit memory bus.

Mainly the 3GB of VRAM will help future proof your rig a little more than the r9 270X.

R9 270X is still a good card though, so if r9 280 is out of your budget then r9 270x is a good choice.

I'm not sure in Europe, but in USA the r9 280 is only like $20 more than r9 270x
 

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I recently built a very similar rig except I went for the AMD FX 6300 and an r9 280X. I've been able to max out every game I've tried (60fps/Ultra). I would definitely try for the 3GB r9 280(X) though as games are utilizing more and more GPU memory.