Wanting to build my first PC, will be mainly used for gaming, any help is much appreciated! Parts are:
CPU - AMD FX-8350
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
Memory - Kingston HyperX 8GB
Video Card - Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB
Case - Fractal Design Core 1000
Power Supply - Corsair CX 500W
If anyone has any suggestions on changes i could make that would improve the build that would be great! It comes to just under £500, I can't really go over that amount because I'm a student and i need to eat! Thanks in advance!
That's a pretty decent build, but I would shift priorities a little bit. Generally speaking, I would throw as much as possible from the budget at the video card.
I made two suggestions for you, one for AMD, one for Intel.
AMD:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/mJt3sY
Intel:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Nw7499
Now before anyone complains that I did not use the G3258 for the Intel build because it's sooo great to overclock. Right, but it's still a dual-Core CPU without HT, and it's the year 2014. The i3 will give you an overall better experience and it actually is overclockable. Not by a lot, but still. Intel should finally give gamers unlocked i3s! I'll start a petition on change.org ;-)
If you want to save some more money, consider getting some used stuff of ebay. I recently build me a secondary gaming rig almost completely with parts from ebay. It's a pretty beefy machine, with two Radeon HD 7950s and a 6-core AMD. It came out at around 500 € total. The only parts I bought new were the PSU and CPU cooler. You might want to try this as well, it was a fun building experience.
That motherboard will not handle an FX-8350. The power draw on the FX-8350 is way too high for the Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 to handle. I might consider an FX-8320E with no overclock, though.