Building my own PC

PCerma

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Hello.

This is my first time building a PC and i would like to ask some questions and i hope someone could help.

Specs:
CPU: Amd fx-6300

GPU: ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon Rx 470 4GB OC Edition AMD Graphics Card with DP 1.4 HDMI 2.0 (STRIX-RX470-O4G-GAMING)

Ram:
Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Blue (HX316C10F/8)

Case:
Rosewill Dual Fans MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case FBM-01

Power supply:
Antec VP-450 Power Supply

HDD:
Seagate ST3250310CS 250GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.5" Internal Desktop Hard Drive w/1 Year Warranty

Motherboard:
ASRock Micro ATX DDR3 1066 Motherboards 970M PRO3

All i want to know is does these component work? Do i need to add something? Is cooling good enough? Do i better power supply?
 
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Your selected components do work but you'd be better off with Intel and DDR4 RAM.

An entry-level/ low-end PC according to the today's standards.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-D Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($58.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($55.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 470 4GB ARMOR OC Video Card ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Apevia X-QPACK3-BL MicroATX Mini...
Your selected components do work but you'd be better off with Intel and DDR4 RAM.

An entry-level/ low-end PC according to the today's standards.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-D Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($58.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($55.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 470 4GB ARMOR OC Video Card ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Apevia X-QPACK3-BL MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($62.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $532.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-04 08:13 EST-0500

Few words.

For CPU, put in the baby of Skylake family, an i3-6100 that is far better than FX-6300. comparison:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-FX-6300-vs-Intel-Core-i3-6100/1555vs3511
Reason why i picked the MoBo (scroll down quite a bit): http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-motherboards,3984.html
Put in 2x 4GB DDR4 RAM at speeds of 2133 Mhz.
For OS and storage, put in a common WD Caviar Blue 1TB HDD.
GPU is the one you picked, RX 470 but this time the MSI version.
Saw that you picked a quite plain case. Switched it with much more nice looking one that has window and LED fan for eyecandy.
And lastly, your system's power plant comes directly from the best PSU OEM, Seasonic. 80+ Bronze and fully modular to ease the installation in a small case.

And also a medium-end PC as well.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($191.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-D Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($58.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($92.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.78 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 470 4GB ARMOR OC Video Card ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Apevia X-QPACK3-BL MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($62.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $726.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-04 08:28 EST-0500

Also few words.

Compared to the build above, i only changed CPU, RAM and added SSD.
Went from low-end i3-6100 CPU to a medium-end i5-6500 CPU.
Doubled the size of RAM from 8GB to 16GB.
And added a good 250GB SSD for the OS, leaving the 1TB HDD only as additional storage drive.

For gaming, i3-6100 build will do but you'll do much better with i5-6500 build.
 
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