Building my first PC

[IRyee]

Decided to build my first PC since I will be going to university next year to do computer science so it will probably come in handy, also I've really wanted to get into PC gaming for quite a while now. 

 

I've found some parts and was just hoping for an opinion or some better suggestions for what I've chosen since i'm more or less a novice at this.

 

CPU  - AMD FX-8350 Black Edition - at £111.99 this seems to be a lot better than any Intel choices for the money.

 

Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3P - £100 ish, Really don't have a clue about motherboards tbh.

 

GPU - Either, MSI GTX 970 GAMING or - Sapphire VAPOR-X R9 290X - Both averagely cheap £230 - £250 ish and have pretty good reviews. 

 

Power supply - EVGA 600W 80 Plus £50.46, don't know if i'd need more but it's not like I've got 3 graphics cards so I've assumed 600w would be enough.

RAM - Unsure since there are so many options, would just like 16GB  

 

Think that's about it, probably just get some random HDD and a cheap SSD.
Also Might get a corsair H100i since I've read some good reviews and why not.
For a case I'd probably go for the fractal design r4.

 

Cheers. 

[Interfectorem]

I would highly recommend going with an i5-4460 + H97 over the FX-8350. The FX chip is dated and suffers from low single-core performance, thus it does not perform nearly as well in games. If you want to venture into overclocking, the i5-4690K + Z97 is a good combo.

[Afiqos4253]

I would highly recommend going with an i5-4460 + H97 over the FX-8350. The FX chip is dated and suffers from low single-core performance, thus it does not perform nearly as well in games. If you want to venture into overclocking, the i5-4690K + Z97 is a good combo.

 

Get a Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 3 in addition to the i5-4690K, should be good enough.

 

As for your ssd, you might wanna check out the Crucial BX100 series. I've heard pretty good reviews about that series of ssd.

 

How about a build log

[CJ Chua]

I would recommend GTX 970 that you've said, cpu cooler if you want some overclocking like a boos you probably need a radiator... as Interfectorem said, i5-4690K + Z97 is a good combo. 

[Hero7750]

I would highly recommend going with an i5-4460 + H97 over the FX-8350. The FX chip is dated and suffers from low single-core performance, thus it does not perform nearly as well in games. If you want to venture into overclocking, the i5-4690K + Z97 is a good combo.

This^^ Amd processors just aren't good right now.

[IRyee]

Thanks for all the comments, I really didn't realize Intel chips were so much better than AMD chips, didn't think there was really much of a difference between the two if I'm honest.
The best price I've been able to find on a 4690K is £157.99, unsure whether or not that is any good but since I won't be building the pc for another month or so and with me being on a bit of a budget I'm going to do my best to look around for any good deals on ebay, gumtree etc.