best mid-low range budget build help

kevin0k

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Hi everyone i'm here again tryng to build a new pc for a friend who whant a little budget PC =P now I tried 4 builds but I get down with one of amd build but I really need your experience to tell me what he could do or if this build is compatible enough?

consideration for the build:
-He like to play games like skyrim, minecraft and dota.
-The build I will post is his max money amount
-He dosen't know much about Pc so he wont be overclocking or anything hard.

the build!

CPU: AMD FX 6300
GPU: msi R7 260X
MOBA ASUS M5A78L-M LX3
RaM: 4gb kingstone hyper blue 1600mhz
HARD DISK: 500gb toshiba 7200 rpm sata 3
PSU corsair CX 500w

notes:
-I need to find out if there will anything special that I should do with the motherboard around the fx 6300??
-it have sata 2 and maybe that will downgrade the hard disk right?
 


That motherboard is horrid- it's only supporting 95w cpu so there would be no option to upgrade it later.

Personally if you want a reasonably cheap board that will last a while I'd try this:
http://www.ebuyer.com/398364-asrock-970-pro3-socket-am3-7-1-channel-audio-atx-motherboard-970-pro3

That has full 140w cpu support, Sata 3 et al and it isn't that expensive.

The rest of the set-up is fine although moving forward the system will probably need 8gb of ram (however that would be easy to upgrade to at a later date).
 
Another good 970 board is Gigabyte 970-UD3P, with 8+2 phase power. The FX 6300 OCs very well with good power and good cooling.

8GB of RAM would be ideal for gaming. Some low latency DDR3 1600 (IE: 8-8-8-24) would be good and probably save a little cost when compared to DDR3 1866.