Will All of these components work together to make a decent gaming PC?

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So here are the current components I put together on Newegg and hope they will work, please tell me if there is any errors in it. As well as if there is anything missing.

Case- Corsair Crystal Series 460X (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139085)
CPU- FX-8370 (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113398) <-- Already Purchased (is in current build)
GPU- RX 470 (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814137025) <-- Already Purchased (is in current build)
Hard Drive- FireCuda Gaming 2TB (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178996)
Memory (RAM) - G.Skill Ripjaws X Series https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231528
Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-990FX https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G3UK3147
OS- Windows 10 Home - 64-bit (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832416892)
PSU- Corsair SF Series SF600 (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139155) <-- Already Purchased (is in current build)
SSD (is only for OS)- Crucial MX300 (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820156150)
SSD Holder- It's a holder (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA90839R4286)
 
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Motherboard should be fine in the case and it will work with the FX8370. If you don't already have that motherboard, then you should just stick with what you've got unless there is something wrong with it.

AMD just had a big release of CPUs, and their mid-range R5 chips just hit the market. (Those will be tough to get I imagine) But that means a new motherboard (AM4) and new memory (DDR4).

Intel has their usual line-up. An recent i5 will do much better than an FX chip at most things. So that would be a new motherboard and memory again. And the higher end Intel CPUs are still being touted as better for gaming performance. General use will go to the R5 and R7 chips though.
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You would be better off with a standard 7200rpm hard drive rather than a hybrid. The whole point of that is to have a small amount of SSD for the OS to boot quickly. Not as useful in a secondary drive.

It is my understanding that getting that volume of memory to work with FX processors is challenging when you go above DDR3 1600. You don't really need 32GB of memory for gaming either. 16GB would be more than enough.

The overall build would be a mid-range computer. RX470 is decent compared to previous generation video cards, but is only second from the bottom. It is really only good up through 1080p. FX8370 is a bit dated, but still a decent gaming processor. You might see some problems in upcoming games.
 
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Looks like the goal is:
New case
More Memory
New Drives
New OS

While keeping CPU, GPU, Motherboard, and Power Supply.
 
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The part selection will work, just not a great collection of parts.

Without re-building from scratch, adding an SSD as a boot drive is a great idea. If the computer has 8GB of memory now, getting 16GB is a slight upgrade. Games like BF1 can use over 8GB. Additional storage never hurt anyone.

And cases are mostly personal preference.
 
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Hello, could you repost if the motherboard will work in it? Because I am not sure about that one. I will do some research about better Graphic cards and CPUs. Thank you for the information you have already posted though. :)
 
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Motherboard should be fine in the case and it will work with the FX8370. If you don't already have that motherboard, then you should just stick with what you've got unless there is something wrong with it.

AMD just had a big release of CPUs, and their mid-range R5 chips just hit the market. (Those will be tough to get I imagine) But that means a new motherboard (AM4) and new memory (DDR4).

Intel has their usual line-up. An recent i5 will do much better than an FX chip at most things. So that would be a new motherboard and memory again. And the higher end Intel CPUs are still being touted as better for gaming performance. General use will go to the R5 and R7 chips though.
 
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This CPU platform is from 2012, it is completely end of life and frankly today in 2017 is a horrible platform to put money into.

A $60 pentium processor with half the cores/threads can do circles around that 8370 because that is how dated and inefficient the CPU is.

This would be significantly better.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($188.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Asus PRIME H270-PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($118.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($111.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($93.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($99.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $683.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-06 18:21 EDT-0400
 
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