How well do these components perform on games?

matc123

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The pc I'm making is mainly for gaming and blender with a budget of around £600 not including os or any peripherals.

I'm of the understanding that you could build an amd build that gives you more for your money in gaming for this sort of budget. As your spending more on the GPU than cpu but for blender purposes the more cores allows you to render more tiles at the same time so I want a decent cpu aswell as GPU. Furthermore, nivida cards are the only cards that work with cycles in blender.

So how well would the parts below run current games.

Case
STYLISH PIANO BLACK ENIGMA MICRO-ATX CASE + 2 FRONT USB

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4460 (3.2GHz) 6MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® H81M-PLUS: Micro-ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs

Memory (RAM)
8GB Kingston DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 960 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - 3D Vision Ready

1st Hard Disk
1TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
 
Solution
This is the best I could go for with your intended uses and purposes:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/g3LCf7
though I apologize for going over budget by a long way but in my defense I'm an architect and I understand how much rendering times are reduced when using a good mid-high range CPU for them duties. overall it's a reliable beast for both productivity and gaming duties. IMHO.