Is this build good enough for animations and some light gaming?

[mrcnarine]

Hello, so im buying a computer from a local computer store to help with their sales, I have just started learning animation both 3D and 2D aswell. I originally planned to build my own PC for 500$ but because i know the store owner personally i wanted to help him, from the following build that hes selling me (for 500$) is worth it for animation or not?... Im not to worried about quality right now but i would like to render most projects in 720p HD at least but the main question is am i getting a good deal? *NOTE* I cannot ask him to swap out any parts whats listed below is what im getting, if i have the money in the future I may upgrade some parts so if you know some compatible parts i could use to upgrade it in the future, id love to hear it, otherwise answering the main question is fine enough!

its a brand new Dell inspiron 660 with:
8gb of 1600mhz Kingston ram
a Gigabyte AMD Radeon 6870 2gb graphics card
a 4th gen 2.7ghz i5 4440 quadcore processor
1tb HDD
USB 3.0
+keyboad, mouse and monitor

Now I dont intend to play games on it , but acording to him he says that the computer can run most games decently...If you think its good enough for animations then thats good enough for me, but if you could estimate how well it would run some games id play like Skyrim, Sims 3 or BF3 or just MMORPG'S that would be awesome id love to play a game every once in a while. i dont care for the Ultra High Settings or anything like that, it just needs to be able to play the games smoothly......thanks to whoever answers!

 

[Titillating]

I'm not familiar with animation, but I run Skyrim and many MMOs (GW2, WoW, etc) with a 4800 series GPU and a worse processor than you are getting. As far as light gaming goes, I'd say you are in the clear.