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Any advice on this $800 build?

Aereldor
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Greetings.

 

I've been trying to come up with an $800 gaming PC for a friend of mine, and I settled on this. Is there any way I could improve it? I'm holding off on an SSD purchase as he says he wants to wait till prices drop further, and I went with the overkill power supply as he might consider an upgrade to 390s in crossfire a few years down the line.

 

Your feedback and criticism is most welcome.

 

Regards,
Aereldor.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($215.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus B150M-C/CSM Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($81.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($29.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.49 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card  ($299.99 @ Micro Center) 
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M ATX Mid Tower Case  ($64.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 750W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $797.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-21 04:37 EDT-0400

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This system is officially PooPipeBoy approved.

As long as you don't mind the hard drive read speeds being slower than an SSD.

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because your case is ATX, I would get an ATX mob, because you have the space for it. The rest looks good, but I would really get a SSD, maybe just 120Gb for the OS and some other stuf. It makes it soooo much faster

to game or not to game, that`s the question

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Looks just fine.

Personally, I don't miss an SSD for everyday use because my hdd is quite fast (30s full boot win10)

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53 minutes ago, UnlimitedTMD said:

because your case is ATX, I would get an ATX mob, because you have the space for it. The rest looks good, but I would really get a SSD, maybe just 120Gb for the OS and some other stuf. It makes it soooo much faster

Switched to a Gigabyte H170 Gaming board.

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