Will it be good enough

Slow97

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I am thinking about building this pc for gaming, my budget is £600 give or take and i would be playing games like CSGO, call of Duty and BF4. All help is appreciated!

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690k 3.5 GHz, 6 MB Cache, LGA1150 Socket)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: AMD Radeon R9 290 DirectCU II OC Graphics Card (4GB, GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0)
Case: NZXT SourceAsus 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: XFX TS 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer
 
It looks good to me, pretty great for £600 I reckon. I've not played COD but if you are playing at 1080p resolution CSGO should run fine on highest settings I should think, battlefield might be struggling on the highest settings but drop down one tier and you should be getting smoothly above 30 FPS I should think.

Only thing you might want to consider is getting a SSD, it will massively lower load times in most cases (though that is not really a concern for the games you are playing). Though on your budget you are probably better off waiting, the price/MB of storage is way higher on SSDs
than with a regular HDD, so you'd probably be replacing 1 TB for a 250 GB SSD, which probably isn't ideal.

I'm not familiar with the Motherboard and case or their prices but if there are some cheaper options maybe you could get those and go for that SSD, it is nice to have one even if it's 60GB for your OS to install on.

I've noticed http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/ is popular on these threads. It'll make it easier for you to reference your components and prices. Maybe have a look and post your findings here and you'll get some of the experts coming out of the woodwork to have a look and give you some better advice than I can 😉.