I'm building a gaming PC, is this a good build?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/guide/wwkcCJ/#view=G7zV3C

That is the PC, If you could help ASAP it would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!!

Could you give me some tips to make it better??

its fine but i would go with a ssd and maybe allocate some funds from cpu and mobo to a stronger gpu if you want more bang for your buck

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SSD was biggest noticeable upgrade to my system. Load times fast, Modded games run and load better. has some good advice for ya.

Should change the PSU mainly, but one sec

Managed to include a 480gb SSD at the same price, your performance difference on the CPU won't matter unless you were using a 144hz display

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/KG3N8d
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/KG3N8d/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£143.31 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus H81M-PLUS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£42.34 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£32.72 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£113.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card (£264.97 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£56.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£59.87 @ Aria PC)
Total: £748.18
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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its more than just boot time. Windows and all preinstalled programs like explorer become more responsive .
I Install every programm and a few games on my 256 gb ssd only few programs, almost all my games and all my media on my 2 tb hdd.
It improves your experience alot. Once you go SSD. you never go back.

I would go with this but add a cpu cooler (the Hyper 212 EVO is adequate)

Respectfully, I disagree. Any computer worth its salt has an SSD in todays world. Preferably at least two. One for OS, one for games.

So basically you are recommending an SSD but is the build fine? Would it run Fallout 4?

Only thing I see wrong is the psu, don't know how good the quality of Evga's power supplies are. I'd say buy a Seasonic or corsair ax/axi.

If you can get a ssd for the os, you'll notice the difference in boot times. Keep a hard drive for games.

That cpu should last a good couple years with overclocking! :)

Oh and you should be fine to run fallout 4 dude

ya looks good

Hello, I know how difficult it can be choosing your parts, so I decided I'd help and give you my opinion on some of these things.

About the SSD's, If you have a tight budget, just go for a single 512 GB SSD. As for me, I have two SSD's and didn't even bother with a hard drive. I personally can't bear the speed of load times on hard drives, especially on open world games such as Fallout 4 and Skyrim where there are many things to load. If you can afford it, get a smaller one for your OS and a larger one for your games. Although, there isn't really a difference between one or two SSD's unless, you're the kind of person that has a lot of files and games finding yourself in the need for more storage space.
Just don't get a hard drive...

Those EVGA PSU's are decent from what I've heard, but I'd go with one of Corsair's line of HXi or RMi PSU's as I have had no problems with mine and it's very quiet.

What you have in terms of graphics is fine if you're trying to run Fallout 4, but to my knowledge, Fallout 4 runs a bit better and more stable with Nvidia cards. If your planning on modding Fallout 4, an R9 390 would be decent, but a GTX 970 might be better. Don't worry about the VRAM, 4GB (3.5 + .5 @ 1/7 the speed) is still enough, but here's the thing about the new R9 300 series cards. The memory bandwidth is much higher, but the memory speed is much slower. Theoretically, it can fit more frame buffer data per draw call, but at a slower rate. So there is no advantage in getting an AMD card for the VRAM. This would also explain why the Nvidia cards have slightly less frame latency. Although, at the same time, Fallout 4's textures are not properly optimized as they are 1K textures but have the quality of 512 textures. Ultimately, this requires more VRAM usage. In addition, if your planning to run the game at a resolution higher than 1080p or install mods, which I highly recommend, you might need that higher VRAM. It Depends on a lot of things...
Ultimately, you will have to choose between graphics or performance to decide between the R9 390 or the GTX 970.

You might also want to monitor your system RAM usage as even 8 GB is beginning to not be enough for many games running at high resolutions with high resolution textures. But eight should still last you a while...

Hopefully this information helped.

Dude, Thank you for all this help really appreciated :-)