Budget of $500-$600 for Gaming Desktop PC | Please Help?

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ckaiyuu

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Hi there, I'm just a girl building my first computer so I'm very confusing right now. Please help and give me your opinions of how you think my system below is. If you could, please give me more suggestions. I'm not really a AMD neither Intel fan so it's not necessary that my cpu have to be AMD. I'm just going with my budget.

CPU: AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5 GHz $104.99
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-78LMT $58.99
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 $38.99
Storage: WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive $53.99
GPU: ASUS Radeon R9 380 STRIX-R9380-DC2OC-2GD5-GAMING 2GB 256-Bit $189.99
Case: Rosewill CHALLENGER - Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case $39.99
Power Supply: CORSAIR CX series CX430 430W ATX12V $39.99

Subtotal: $526.93
 
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Mac070

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Nice job picking out the parts . Now one thing to keep in mind , is the processor . Its practically 3 cores and 6 threads . Or however you want to think about it . But I bought it , put my system togethor . Used my r9 290 ran everything in ultra . I noticed my games stuttered . Until I purchased the fx 8320e . Soo Stroh straight that processor will stutter . What games are you going to play ?
 
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Archaic59

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Better CPU and power supply. Intel core performance beats AMD.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($67.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($32.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($46.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($169.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Silverstone PS08B (Black) MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($35.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($55.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $584.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-06 00:01 EST-0500
 
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archaig build is nice. it will also allow you to stream league/csgo if youre intrested into that. nevertheless a quad core i5 is really nice to have. hwoever i would swap the mobo for an asus z97p

look up the benchmarks frmo the i5 4460 with an r9 380 you wont be dissapointed
 
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Mac070

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Archaic build is good . But the budget is defeated . I would personally pick up a skylake motherboard and cpu. An I3 should pair well with the r9 380 4gb . Asrock is usually very low quality material and products
 
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ckaiyuu

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It's embarrassing to say but just for Simcity, Cities: skylines, and a bit of CAD/Revit
 
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The original AMD build is not good . The motherboard is weak, wont support overclocking to any degree and will hinder hard drive performance . The 430 watt psu is inadequate to power the graphics card .
This is cheaper and better

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($105.98 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.50 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($61.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($32.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($169.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($36.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $522.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-06 04:43 EST-0500
 
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