Need Help Gaming PC (£350-£380)

[jasondugo]

A friend asked me build him best gaming pc for this price:

Approximate Purchase Date: next 2 months

Budget Range: £350-£380

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming

Are you buying a monitor: No

Do you need to buy OS: No

Location: UK

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080


And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: He doesn't have a pc.

I've gone over his budget, can anyone make this better and cheaper he really wants a decent GPU:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£75.00 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£43.04 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Kingston Fury Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Toshiba 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.97 @ CCL Computers)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£139.99 @ Novatech)

Case: Cooler Master K350 ATX Mid Tower Case (£23.99 @ CCL Computers)

Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£38.80 @ Aria PC)

Total: £408.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-22 16:55 GMT+0000

 

[eddieb101]

All looks pretty good there given the budget, Ideally if he can stretch to it i would switch the 270x with a 280x which should only cost £30 extra and would be an awesome jump in graphics performance! Best of luck!!

 

[sora]

OP, your build is great but I would try and fit in a R9 280X within that build like eddieb101 previously stated!