£400-£450 gaming pc

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I need to build a gaming PC costing from £400-450, using the nzxt s340 black/blue and the ASrock Z97 anniversary motherboard.
Any help is appreciated thanks.
 
Solution
You will also need a Windows OS if you don't have it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£85.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£62.33 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 2GB OC Edition Video Card (£121.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black/Blue) ATX Mid Tower Case (£69.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries...
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/PP4nf7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/PP4nf7/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (£85.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£62.33 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card (£120.00 @ CCL Computers)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.10 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£55.56 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £454.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-24 16:14 BST+0100
 
You will also need a Windows OS if you don't have it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£85.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£62.33 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 2GB OC Edition Video Card (£121.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black/Blue) ATX Mid Tower Case (£69.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.47 @ More Computers)
Total: £449.35
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-24 16:31 BST+0100
 
Solution
I'd just take this case instead and grab 16gb of RAM

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (£85.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£65.84 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£64.04 @ More Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card (£120.00 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Thermaltake Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£45.44 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 600W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£30.48 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £450.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-24 16:44 BST+0100