New gaming PC build

[Xshadowhunter]

Hey everyone, 

i have decided to build a new gaming pc and i have a budget of around $1000 AUS (~$750 USD)

 

My current planned parts are:

- Case : NZXT S340

- Motherboard : ASUS M5A99FX-PRO-R2

- RAM : Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB

- CPU : AMD FX-6300 6 core

 

- Graphics card : Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X 3GB

- HDD : Western Digital WD Black 1TB

- SSD : Kingston 120GB

- PSU : Corsair CX-600 Modular 80+ Bronze Power Supply

 

P.S this is the first pc i am building so any tip/ideas would be appreciated. thanks

[Zunix]

CPU-Intel Core i5-4590k 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor

Cooler Master Hyper  212evo
RAM-G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
GPU-XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card
Motherboard-ASRock Z97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
HDD-Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Case-Cooler Master HAF 912 ATX Mid Tower Case
PSU-EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

Kingston SSDNow V300 Series  120GB 2.5''  Solid state drive

This is what I recommend for 700-800 usd.

[Captain_WD]

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Hey there and welcome to the community

 

It looks like a good budget build. 

One remark regarding the storage: WD Black is a great drive designed for performance. But since you've already have a SSD for the OS and the more demanding applications and games you could opt out for a WD Blue drive (here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=hRD0P6). It also performs good and fast enough for most games. 

Gaming relies on the storage's performance only for the loading times and FPS and graphics are not affected by it so if it's jsut for gaming, WD Black would relly give you benefit if you run more demanding games off of it.

 

Captain_WD.

[AliveGhost13]

The CX600 is not the PSU to choose. For the same or less you can get XFX TS, EVGA B2, Seasonic SSET and so on which are better units.