I need help picking parts for a ~700€ gaming pc

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I've looked up some stuff and I have think 700€ is enough to play games at good settings with high frames, but I don't know where to start with picking items.

I think I'll go with an AMD cpu, like the fx-6300 or fx-8350, because they are good and cheaper (compared to Intel CPU).
For the GPU i was thinking about the Radeon R9 280(x) or 285.
I want to have a cheap optical drive.
I don't know what kind of motherboard is good (this is my main struggle, finding a good MOBO) so please leave some suggestions.
I also want a 1tb seagate barracuda and a 120 gb ssd (kingston?)
If possible, I want to have a modular PSU.
For the case I would love to have a blue one (might add some leds :))
I might want to overclock in the future, but I'm not quite sure how to do it.

The games I want to play on it are BF4 at ultra settings, minecraft (with shaders and mods installed) and some racing sims.

I'm from the Netherlands, and order my parts mostly in the Netherlands or in Germany (mindfactory.de azerty.nl alternate.de/nl hardwareversand.de

Thanks a lot!
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (€124.90 @ Caseking)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (€32.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (€79.78 @ Hardwareversand)
Memory: Kingston Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€73.94 @ Hardwareversand)
Storage: Seagate 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive (€77.30 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 270X 2GB TurboDuo Video Card (€171.00 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Fractal Design FD-CA-CORE-3300-BL ATX Mid Tower Case (€55.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€75.89 @ Hardwareversand)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer (€18.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €710.59
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-15 17:46 CET+0100

I personally do not do AMD builds that often, but in your case and prices over where you are are greater in the $ than in US, I got as close as I could while offering you performance as well as GPU wise performance.

I also got you a Hybrid SSHD so you can boot in faster in games :p
 
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Wouldn't it be better to go with an fx-6300 (about 50 euros cheaper) and a cheaper motherboard (around 60 euros) and get the r9 280 (x) GPU and maybe a ssd+hdd? Or is the difference between the fx-6300 and the fx-8350 very big?
 

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wouldn't this be better?

http://www.hardwareversand.de/pcconfigurator/meinpc/1228308

HV20X835DE AMD FX-8350 Prozessor, Boxed, Sockel AM3+ 157,78 €
HV1134RYDE ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0, AM3+, ATX 69,76 €
HV20MI48DE 8GB-Kit Crucial Ballistix Sport Series DDR3-1600, CL9 66,45 €
HV203O15DE Corsair Carbide Series 200R, ATX, ohne Netzteil 51,19 €
HVR550XCDE XFX PRO550W Core Edition Full Wired Power Supply 55,11 €
HV1035SEDE Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X OC mit MANTLE und Gaming Evolved Client, 3GB GDDR5, 2x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort,lite retail 181,99 €
HV13SB71DE Seagate Barracuda 7200 1000GB, SATA 6Gb/s 49,81 €
HV12SPP8DE 120 GB SSD Silicon Power S60 SATA3 2,5' 7mm intern retail 54,44 €
HV206LD8DE LG DH18NS schwarz bare SATA II 11,48 €
HVZPCDE Rechner - Zusammenbau 29,99 €

Gesamtpreis: 728,00 €

Alle Preise sind Versandpreise

AMD is also good right?
And how about the mobo?
 

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Maybe you're right. How is the intel processor compared to an AMD FX-8350? If it is as good as the 8350 I might go with the intel :)