Help please new pc build need advice thanks

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Hi.
Yesterday i had a power surge so my video card ATI 5770 no longer works, i replaced it with an older card to test if all the other components were still working. They are working but the motherboard has a burn mark on it Asus p5q pro p45, i enjoy playing games and i can't play games with this setup anymore my processor is an old Q9550 2.8 ghz.

I have not built a pc in 8 years so i came up with a list of new parts and just need them verifying my budget is £650 - £700
appreciate any help and suggestions thanks!

MSI Radeon R9 380 Gaming 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail
NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - Black / Red
SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
MSI 970 Gaming AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
WD Blue Desktop 1TB SATA III 3.5" Hard Drive
Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
 
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Way better build

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£141.22 @ More Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£57.56 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£37.94 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card (£242.99 @ Aria PC)
Case: Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£25.29 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.18 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £590.18
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-29 03:57 BST+0100
 
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Thanks for the reply dude. I changed the spec quite bit and went above budget but ordered a new pc a few hours ago!
This is my first pc build in 8 years i'm so excited to get my hands on it! the parts below is what are final / what i ordered.
Total = £821 INC VAT i'm happy with the price let me know what you think :) it has to be far better than my old system
My old system = Q9550 2.8 GHZ, 2GB RAM, some nvidia 9600 video card, I hope i see a difference in performance for the money spent :)

Corsair CX600M Builder Series 600 Watt ATX Modular Power Supply Unit
Intel 4th Generation Core i5 (4460) 3.2GHz Quad Core Processor 6MB L3 Cache
Asus Z97-P Motherboard 5th/4th Gen Core i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron 1150 Z97 ATX RAID Gigabit LAN (Integrated Intel HD Graphics)
HyperX Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) Memory Kit 1600MHz DDR3 CL9 DIMM
Club 3D Radeon R9 280X RoyalQueen Graphics Card 3GB GDDR5 PCI-E DVI (2 x Mini DisplayPort) HDMI
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO CPU Cooler
Corsair Obsidian 450D Windowed High Airflow Mid-Tower Case
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB Hard Drive (7200rpm) SATA 64MB
Samsung SH-224DB (24X) DVD-Writer SATA
 
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The build i gave you is better.

About your final build

-You dont need 16gb of RAM for gaming 8gb is fine
-You dont need aftermarket CPU cooler for locked CPU
-Instead of 16gb of ram and aftermarket CPU cooler you could of got way better GPU like GTX 970 in my build which is way better than r9 280X
-And you picked low quality PSU, XFX 550w PSU is way better quality, here you can see which PSU are good quality and which are not - http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
 
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Go with an XFX 650W power supply or a Seasonic 620W power supply as the Corsair CX series of power supplies use poor capacitors!
 
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Thanks and noted for the future swapped for the XFX 650W power supply.
 
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WTF you recommended a XFX PSU over a SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black.?!!!!!!

The Superflower is a Tier One PSU. I have one and its the best 650w psu you can buy!

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/psus/2014/06/20/550w-650w-psu-roundup/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtnZbhXhCE

And why did you recommnend a stock cooler? WTF really. Even a £15 non-intel cooler is better than stock and worth the money.
 
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XFX PSU and Superflower Leadex dont cost the same, Superflower Leadex cost £89, and you can get XFX that is enough for his build for £50 so Superflower cost way more if he wants he wants tier 1 PSU i would get EVGA G2 which is SuperFlower Leadex inside. And stop saying WTF like XFX PSU is bad quality.

I didnt add and aftermarket CPU cooler because stock is more than enough for locked i5 4460, if you would read the previous posts you would see that. it doesnt make sense buying better cooler if you dont need it. i used stock cooler for some time and the only time i could hear it was after few hours playing on full load, if a bit of noise will bother OP he can buy aftermarket CPU cooler later no problem
 
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