£600 Build work some games

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Hello all a friend of mine is wanting a PC for work (Photoshop mainly some video editing) and some games, He has a budget of £600 doesn't need a monitor or any peripherals he has a windows disk too so this isn't needed. He mainly plays games such command and conquer, StarCraft and half life he is considering getting bf4 if he can play at decent ish Frames.

he has specced one for £550 not sure where or who with but I think you guys will be able to do better for him.

This is his spec so far

Case: COOLERMASTER ELITE 311 BLUE CASE

Processor (CPU): AMD A6-6400K Dual Core APU (4.1GHz) & Radeon™ HD 8470D Graphics

Motherboard: ASUS® A88XM-PLUS: (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, 6Gb/s)

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

Graphics Card: 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 650 Ti - DVI, mHDMI, VGA - 3D Vision Ready

2nd Graphics Card: NONE

Memory - 1st Hard Disk: 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE

2nd Hard Disk: NONE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive: 4x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ROM

Power Supply: CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY

Processor Cooling: STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER

Thanks for any advice :)
 
Without Overclocking & Fit budget kinder:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Boost OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £149.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £139.99
1 x Gigabyte H87M-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £73.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £632.87 (includes shipping : FREE).



With an i5 4670k - Dropped the PSU slightly & added a cooler with OEM chip.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Boost OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £95.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 550W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £689.96 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
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