£500 Gaming PC

[TwoHeadedThing]

I have a budget of £500 to make a Gaming PC that will play games like Skyrim on high settings, with good frame rates, whilst also being able to render videos. I asked some people, and they came up with the build below. What do you guys think of it? I don't need an OS.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£99.54 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£64.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Mushkin Silverline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£28.74 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.54 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card (£162.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.18 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£65.99 @ Novatech)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£12.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £511.90
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-12-26 22:52 GMT+0000)

 

[butremor]

You can save a bit by getting 550w PSU. Xfx is good corsair, antec too.

 

[AMD Radeon]

whilst also being able to render videos.....

it favors NVIDIA 1GB DDR5 card
read here about mercury playback engine used by Pr and AE
www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

radeo has no slight chance because of adobe-nvidia monopoly

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£81.65 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H77MA-G43 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£56.12 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£31.76 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£57.96 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card (£159.95 @ Aria PC)
Case: Xigmatek Asgard II Black ATX Mid Tower Case (£28.15 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: XFX 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£39.95 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£12.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £468.52
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-12-26 23:09 GMT+0000)

this is the best build for you

from my experience using Adobe Premiere since 2007, i3 should be enough to deliver performance while NVIDIA handle 80% rendering loads

 

[TwoHeadedThing]

I hate to say it AMD Radeon, but that article means nothing to me

 

[TwoHeadedThing]

I prefer using Sony Vegas, and I won't be doing much rendering tbh, more gaming than anything. Also, I have a bit over £500, which can all be spent on parts

 

[butremor]

Yeah, if rendering is just occasional and you have money, you're better off with i5 build.
Something along the lines of i5-3470 and Asrock H77

 

[TwoHeadedThing]

Do you think this would be a suitable PSU? It's £20 cheaper, and is made by Corsair...