300-400$ AMD budget gaming PC advice

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BudgetGamer1290

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I have about a 400$ dollar budget at most and have put together a parts list and I was wondering if I was making any mistakes and if possible I would like to minimize the price. i do need the OS included in the price but I could take out the case and put in a power supply instead because I own a Dell dimension 8400 which I can get the case from. I will use this PC for very small video editing but am looking to be able to play most games at 720 p at a steady frame rate some games are ark survival and Grand Theft Auto V at around medium settings here is the per Mal ink ; http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9fXb99
 
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I wouldn't recommend getting dual core cpu ever, since nowadays it will be completely useless.
Here is something far better:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($76.98 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($24.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($65.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R7 265 2GB Video Card ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Cougar Spike MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($33.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Micro Center)
Total: $418.59
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-27 11:24 EDT-0400
 
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If you are able, re-use your case and DVD-RW drive to help reduce costs. If your PSU is stock from Dell, then you don't want to re-use it (cheap unit with poor caps). Don't skimp on a PSU. Look toward XFX or Seasonic, or filter through the Tier 1 or Tier 2 list. www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($69.99 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($18.75 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-DS2H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($48.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($45.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.98 @ Best Buy)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($32.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($55.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer (Purchased For $0.00)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($88.88 @ NCIX US)
Total: $519.55
 
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StarChief

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I wouldn't buy the AMD Athlon X4 860K like the two suggest above. It's old, weak and that socket is dead. There will literally be no room to upgrade ever.

Replace that Athlon with the g3258 and all is good. The LGA 1150 socket is has HUGE upgrade path with tons of options.

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As you can see the G3258 is much better for gaming and for future in general.
 
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Those titles may be fine, but dual core CPUs are becoming less gaming compatible with newer titles (or more demanding titles). A quad core (or four processing thread) are almost a minimum and to upgrade an Intel build to include an i3 takes the price up too much. Yes, the FM2 platform is "dead", but that doesn't mean it is useless. On a budget, an overclocked 860k is a capable CPU.

Plenty of discussion around dual core problems while gaming (Google is your friend for the titles you play).
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2390496/dual-core-cpu-read.html
 
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In general a quad core is better yes. However, especially currently, AMD per core performance is so weak that a single Intel core does better than 3-4 AMD cores. That Athlon and the G3258 both cost the same, yet the performance per core is so much better with the haswell Intel chip.

Find me one title where that Athlon gets better FPS than the dual core G3258. And I mean marginally better to justify a dead end purchase.
 
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Off topic, Where did you get these charts?

 
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