FX6300 and R9 280

[MisterDoyle]

Sub £500 budget gaming build:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/nybTFT

Any suggestions? Would the CPU bottleneck the GPU? Looking to play all the new releases on fairly high settings. Is the PSU up to the job? Decent budget case? I've already got a HDD to install (hence the small SSD) and a monitor. Like I said, any suggestions welcome. Thanks!

 

[RazerZ]

Good choice. You should be able to play around ultra settings on most games.

I'm not sure if you want a build including the two, or were just asking if they would be a good choice.

 

[MisterDoyle]

Sorry about the lack of content in my original post; new to the forum! I've edited it now. Thanks.

 

[IInuyasha74]

Looked over your system, everything looks good. Shouldn't have any bottleneck on the CPU side. Two things you do need to watch out for though, the 4GB of RAM sometimes will give lower performance. Windows 7 sometimes uses 5GB or so, and because of that if you can get 8GB its best, but if you cannot swing it its okay. the 2GB RAM sticks actually work well if you have 4 RAM slots on that motherboard, you can always buy two more later and upgrade. You won't ever use more than 8GB, and its really not a big hurry.

The other thing is the hard drive. Don't have one. The SSD is good for performance loading Windows, loading programs etc. but 120GB will only hold like all of your basic programs then 1 or 2 modern games. Thats it. So its best you buy a HDD also.