GTX 970 vs R9 380

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The GTX 970 is much better than the R9 380, which is just a slightly better rebrand of the R9 285. 4GB of VRAM is a good amount, as it has just enough headroom to support maximum textures.

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The GTX 970 is much better than the R9 380, which is just a slightly better rebrand of the R9 285. 4GB of VRAM is a good amount, as it has just enough headroom to support maximum textures.

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The AMD card will perform slightly better than the GTX 970 at 1440p and up, and will perform equally or slightly worse at 1080p. It also uses a lot more power, needing a good quality 600W power supply to support it.

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That is a really nice build :) The 4590 is perfect, it's one of the best CPU's in terms of price:performance. You might be able to save a bit of cash on the motherboard by going for a lower end chipset and enquiring with the retailer if they would update the BIOS for you prior to purchase, otherwise, you're limited to H97 or Z97.
 
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Don't tell anyone I told you this, but you can get genuine retail Windows keys on r/microsoftsoftwareswap. They go for $10, which is about £6 in real money ;)

Here's what I would change, taking into consideration the money saved on OS:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£154.92 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 Pro Rev. 2 36.7 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£6.62 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus Z97-P ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£59.51 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£41.73 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£47.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£32.40 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card (£259.00 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£49.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.18 @ CCL Computers)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£12.95 @ CCL Computers)
Monitor: Asus VE247H 23.6" Monitor (£109.90 @ Amazon UK)
Other: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium N (£6.00)
Total: £827.18
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-04 00:13 BST+0100

Added a dead silent cooler to go with your CPU, I have one myself. It keeps my Q8300 cool overclocked to 2.9GHz, and doesn't make a sound even at full speed. I've also changed the graphics card to a better model (Windforce cooler) and changed the case. Unfortunately, the Phantom 240 is a pretty bad case. NZXT tried to stuff all of the Phantom goodness into a cheap case and it just turned out to be poor quality. I also got you a bigger monitor, which is probably the best size for 1080p monitors.

The biggest change is including an SSD in your budget. A 120GB SSD and 1TB hard drive is much faster than an expensive 1TB high-performance drive. The Samsung 850 Evo is probably the best budget SSD on the market, excluding the little-known OCZ ARC100.

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