Needing Advice on buying Gaming PC

leon343

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I have a friend whose nephew (7 yrs old) wants a gaming PC for christmas. I was going to offer building a PC but she is scared of the big price tags, I think 400$ would be her maximum budget but she would rather it be less than that. I believe the nephew just wants a flashy gaming PC, I'm certain he would not notice performance or anything like that. I would imagine he plays games like Minecraft, Roblox, she mentioned a game named Pods? so the PC doesn't need a GTI 1080.

Would this be a good PC?

CPU: Fx -8320 black edition
GPU: Radeon R7 260x
8 GB of ddr3 ram
1TB WD blue drive 7200rpm
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G43.

If y'all have any links to a computer with a reasonable price, feel free to let me know. Thanks in advance!

*Update* She has agreed to build a PC if it means a better price. Feel welcome to leave your budget builds in the answers and if you can, how good the performance is on your machine.
 
Here's one suggestion:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - A12-9800 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($94.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot - Viper Elite 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Crucial - BX300 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design - Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($23.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($36.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($89.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $424.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-30 11:53 EDT-0400
 
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