Build for a friend of mine

Hardware Build a PC
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A close friend if mine recently moved to Germany, and now is looking to build a new PC. His current budget is $900 (~€650). This will include a monitor. I threw him together this, but I was anyone was willing to look this over? (Use de.pcpartpicker.com if you want to revise this. I was also considering switching to an APU. He won't be playing any graphically intensive games, but BF4 on medium or low settings would be nice.

What I threw him together (And before you criticize the board, I know LE boards are bad. It's a bit cheaper, so meh. He won't be doing any overclocking.

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/2WSwW
Price breakdown by merchant: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/2WSwW/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/2WSwW/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD FX-4130 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor (€76.90 @ Caseking)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (€74.63 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Mushkin Silverline 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (€62.57 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (€44.99 @ Pixmania DE)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 650 2GB Video Card (€93.56 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Zalman Z9 ATX Mid Tower Case (€47.54 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (€40.86 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer (€20.55 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Monitor: Hannspree HE225DPB 21.5" Monitor (€114.67 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Other: Windows 7 64x OEM (€80.00)
Total: €656.27
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-25 07:58 CET+0100)

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This would be a better choice http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/2ZMMu (windows is not included but it will fit in the 650€ budget if it is 80€ as you listed.

Overall, this build would perform better. The CPU's are simular in gaming purposes. This build has better ram since it is 1600MHz and a dualkit. It has better GPU, larger HDD, a 60GB SSD for windows.

hope i helped :)

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You forget about the Monitor.

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I'm not good in building budget Builds but i would take this Ram. It's faster, costs less and has red led's on the heatspreader (yay) . . . and this HDD. Again faster, more Space (1TB) and 64MB cache.

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oh, my bad :/

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Thanks for the suggestions, but yeah i chose those parts because of the monitor included. I will change the ram and HDD.

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Also, the case that you chose is only the side window when you go to purchase it.

I changed the RAM and the HDD -

http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/302wd

Should I change the CPU and MOBO to the Athlon and Asrock, or keep them the way they are?