< £600 Gaming build request

[teddyly]

Hello all!

I wish for a gaming build with a budget of around £500, this budget is for the tower only and OS is not needed. I would like this build to be fully dedicated to gaming whilst possibly allowing room for upgrades perhaps in a few years time.
This will be my first build so any tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks guys!

 

[teddyly]

Hey thanks for the build! However its abit over my budget, i was looking for something less than £600 (between £500 and £570 maybe?), i also heard that with my budget going with the AMD route would be most beneficial? perhaps a FX6300 would allow me to spend more on a better GPU?

 

[teddyly]

£600

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 280X iPower IceQ X2 Boost 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £227.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £59.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £45.95
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £588.97 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Would this be the best build for an efficient gaming pc with my current budget?

 

[teddyly]

Bit too GPU heavy for me in comparison to the CPU, so you're not always going to be getting the most you can out of the GPU, but it's a decent set up, you can't really do any better without a higher budget.

1 x HIS Radeon R9 280X iPower IceQ X2 Boost 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £227.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £110.99
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £59.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £45.95
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £645.97 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Would this balance out the difference between the CPU and GPU, allowing the GPU to be more efficient?

 

[teddyly]

1 x HIS Radeon R9 280X iPower IceQ X2 Boost 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £227.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £110.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £59.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £45.95
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £645.97 (includes shipping : £11.75).

So im all set? Does this case support this mobo?