New budget build: try AMD?

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I have always been an intel fanboy, and my first PC build was a bit of a beast for comp TF2 etc, but I have grown up a bit and don't game anymore. However, I have come to the realisation that i may need a new PC, but i really don't want to spend much. It needs:

- To look clean AF, IE, only NZXT cases because they are clean looking

- Colour coded, preferably white or blue, no red (already done that)

- around £600-700 MAX, I need to buy more things like gopros etc after

- That price includes a monitor, which also needs to look clean, I was thinking one of the dell IPS 1080P ones, they look nice, in silver, but are quite costly

It will only be doing light gopro editing and camera editing, nothing too heavy, as well as surfing the web, but I would like to be able to game if needs be, 60FPS on 1080p

here's the build I made, IDK if its any good though, would change a few bits - don't need a ssd as i have a portable SSD which is decent

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/X7gR23

Cheers thanks boys
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£82.08 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.80 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£64.98 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£32.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.97 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 380 4GB SOC Video Card (£174.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£55.49 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.96 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: Dell P2314H 60Hz 23.0" Monitor (£127.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £668.23
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-24 14:54 GMT+0000
 
Solution
you don't like corsair PSU's? I used one on my last build, and it was a dream for me, used the cx600M and although people comment on the quality i found mine to work just fine, even on 4.5ghz overclocks with my 970 ramped up to max? Whats the difference, and would I need more than 500w?

Also, AMD cpus, hard to overclock? anything i should know in general with amd cpus and gpus? cheers
 
well good point, but it survived me accidently overclocking my cpu to 4.9ghz, (system did crash under load, i was like wtf? turns out i somehow didn't turn off the glitchy turbo boost) but it sustainably supplied good power to an overclocked system whilst not crashing, and constantly ran without getting hot, was silent and was at a decent price. I will try the evga one as i'm sure it is better, so 500W should be fine then? also, the build is fine as well?
 
As long as the PS has sufficient amperage, you can really overclock on any CPU. There is nothing special about overclocking on different PSUs. As long as they can provide direct current within specifications, overclocking will work. Overclocking is dependent on the motherboard and where the chip was made.