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What do you think about my plans for a £600/$1000 build?

Processor-Amd Athlon X4 760k 3.8ghz Quad Core

CPU Cooler-Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler

Motherboard-MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard

Ram-G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory

Storage-Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

SSD-Mushkin Chronos 60GB 2.5" Solid State Disk

Graphics Card-XFX Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card

Case-Corsair C70 Military Green (Green) ATX Mid Tower Case

Power Supply-Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

Do you have any change/recommendations for this build? 

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Er, is there a reason you chose those parts?  You can get significantly better ones for your budget.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2UOAJ

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I live in the UK, so parts cost more. This is pretty much at the top of my budget.

 

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I just made a list and it just goes over my budget by about £1

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2UMp9

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http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2UPSZ

This is much better for the price. GTX 760 + FX 8320 will smoke any games on high or ultra at 1080p. 

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I've changed it a little to get the changes in, its gonna cost more but i guess i can save for a little longer

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2UQ3A

 

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For some reason partpicker uk bugs on me.

Things i would change.

  1. FX6300 or FX8320 cpu
  2. Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 motherboard.
  3. Sapphire 7870XT gpu.
  4. Cheaper case if you prefer
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I really like the case, i think its the military green colour. I might change it but i'm not sure yet

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Do any of you know a cheaper case with good cable management and a window?

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well if you like the case i would say just buy it. because its a great case. you will probably going a bit over budget.

I have to say that your main build does not look bad either,  the only con of the athlon is, wenn you play games like metro last light, for example, those games, are a bit core demending, and on those games, your cpu could bottleneck a bit. But still the gpu is the most important thing, a 270 (X) GTX760 or 7870XT are great choices.

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I really want to get the best performance i can, so i'm trying to find a good case with a window for cheaper so i can stay in my budget.

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http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2UQL0

I've changed it a little to bring it into budget. If i need more than 1tb of storage i can just add another hard drive later.

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looks good to me, you could cheap out going with a FX6300 if you like. and upgrade to an 8 core later on. the GPU is still the most important thing. ☺

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Do you think the 7870 would be able to work well enough with two/three monitors?

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for 3 monitor gaming.. no its to weak, i have a 7870GHZ my self. if you realy want into 3 monitor gaming or higher res then 1080p then you realy gonne need a higherend gpu. like a R9-280X or R9-290 GTX780 etc.

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Would the GTX 760 be able to handle it? 

 

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for 5670 x 1080p gaming? no, for a single monitor 1080p it will work fine, but triple monitor in gaming its realy to weak.

But you can allways upgrade the gpu later on if you realy want  triple monitor gaming.

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Thanks for helping, i think that i will get much better performance now!

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you could think about getting the corsair carbide 300r windowed 

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This guy put up a good build for the price. I think this would be a good build for you personally.