New Budget Gaming and Editing PC - UK - £500

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I'm trying to build a new budget PC which has decent performance for not too much money. I'm caught in a decision between using either an i3 or an AMD chip with probably a GTX 950 or the AMD alternative.

Anyway, I want to build a decent PC for gaming and editing for around £500. It doesn't have to include windows, but needs to include keyboard, mouse and monitor. For storage please use a cheap SSD (120gb would be fine) and a mechanical drive won't be necessary (I'll buy one when I have the money). Please use UK sites only and any site which offers free shipping would be great too! Any help would be lovely!
 
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Forever Oleg

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You can get a cheaper monitor but IPS rocks:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£95.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Asus H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£49.99 @ Novatech)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£35.28 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card (£131.58 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£35.93 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.96 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: LG 23MP67VQ 60Hz 23.0" Monitor (£116.87 @ More Computers)
Total: £567.58
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-27 01:20 GMT+0000
 
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Great, thanks!! How does the i3 handle video editing? And of course, IPS is pretty baller.
 
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At the same price you are looking at an FX-6300 which is a 6-core and will perform faster in video editing while the i3 is only a dual core with HT. i3 will be far superior in gaming though. THe i3 will video edit no problem but it will probs do so slower than the FX. i3 also has an advantage of using DDR4 RAM which is 2133 (higher clocked but higher CAS than DDR3 which is a bit of a downer) so programs that rely on faster RAM will run faster + they made some software speed improvements with new Skylake architecture but Idk about that.

I really recommend the i3 if GAMING > EDITING, or if editing is not time sensitive.
 
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DDR4 has been shown to have slight improvements in rendering, but not really enough to warrant one over the other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utWnjA4NzSA

This is what I would go with, should render pretty well.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor (£101.42 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£76.98 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£35.28 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£34.97 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 2GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£146.39 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£35.93 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.96 @ Aria PC)
Total: £497.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-27 05:12 GMT+0000
 
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The above suggested motherboard does not supports DDR4 memory.
:https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/specifications/
 
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My apologies, It's been a REALLY rough day for me.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor (£101.42 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£76.98 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£33.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 2GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£146.39 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£35.93 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.96 @ Aria PC)
Total: £496.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-27 10:16 GMT+0000
 
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You still think, that 120GB storage would be enough for OS & gaming & other files?. Well it depends how OP sacrifice his share. Just because OP mentioned he needs a SSD, that made you to include one.

A SSD have no role in game performance expect load times. Yes, all you need a higher capacity storage drive for storing mass data & transferring huge no.of data from one place to other. In 120GB SSD, It will spare 70-80GB after OS gets installed (depends on OS files) , so you think that would be enough for your games & other files?. My suggestion would be a 1TB HDD, later purchase a SSD. Make your investment wisely.
 
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