Would this build be good? (First timer)

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Junaid_5

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I am currently working on building a budget PC for around £600, I have come up with the following setup, please give feedback regarding with where I can improve, thank you :)

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Deepcool GAMMAXX 400 74.3 CFM CPU Cooler
Thermal Compound: ARCTIC MX4 4g Thermal Paste
Motherboard: MSI B150 Gaming M3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Graphics Card: RX480 When it is released.


http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/MrJ798/saved/mWpqqs


Thank you.
 
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StormBrew

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Looks good except for a few areas.

That power supply is junk, it has low quality capacitors and is known to fail well below its listed wattage. I chose a tier 2 PSU (according to the PSU tier list) from XFX. The SSD I switched to a faster SanDisk model.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£164.28 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool GAMMAXX 400 74.3 CFM CPU Cooler (£29.69 @ Amazon UK)
Thermal Compound: ARCTIC MX4 4g Thermal Paste (£3.95 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI B150 Gaming M3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£80.05 @ More Computers)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£27.18 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.64 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case (£29.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.76 @ CCL Computers)
Other: Rx480 (£140.00)
Total: £584.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-07 01:16 BST+0100
 
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CV_Taihou

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Honestly don't bother with the 6600k on that motherboard. You need a Z series board to make a k CPU worth purchasing. If you do go with the 6500, you also don't need a CPU Cooler, as the stock heatsink will be perfectly fine for it. Those savings should be enough to get a bigger SSD, and a better PSU than the CX series unit
 
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Junaid_5

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Okay, so I have about £120 to spend on a SSD and PSU (this is after removing the heatsink and the psu and the ssd)

What would you recommend?
 
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CV_Taihou

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Something like this would work well. The best all around SSD (with twice the capacity of the originally listed one), and a very good quality power supply. Comes out to about 125. If you can free up a pound or so, I'd also suggest going with 2x4GB sticks of RAM as opposed to the one 8GB stick. The board has 4 slots IIRC so upgrading will still be straightforwards.

XFX 550W Bronze/Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
 
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