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Planning my first build, a computer to do some gaming (good, but not ultra HD, mega brain-splosion gaming).

Budget is around £500 (I've found some cheaper prices for these parts elsewhere) running 2 monitors, carrying out web development, schoolwork etc and basically an upgrade from my old laptop.

 

Here's my parts list, any suggestions? Any mistakes I've made?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£181.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£48.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£25.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£45.48 @ Ebuyer) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card  (£188.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Case: Aerocool Qx-2000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case 
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£54.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Full 32/64-bit  (£85.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £632.37
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-21 22:02 BST+0100

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Do you have an existing hard drive you can re-purpose? If so I would suggest swapping out the 1TB drive for a 120GB to 240GB SSD as you'll definitely notice the increase in load times all around.

Current Network Layout:

Current Build Log/PC:

Storage Server Setup:

 

Prior Build Log/PC:

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1 minute ago, Lurick said:

Do you have an existing hard drive you can re-purpose? If so I would suggest swapping out the 1TB drive for a 120GB to 240GB SSD as you'll definitely notice the increase in load times all around.

 
 

Nope everything would have to be new, I was looking at SSD's because the performance difference is more than noteworthy. But I don't think it's something I'd go with.

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3 minutes ago, P110 said:

Nope everything would have to be new, I was looking at SSD's because the performance difference is more than noteworthy. But I don't think it's something I'd go with.

I have a 1TB HDD, and I have used a PC with an SSD. I honestly don't get the hype. My PC actually boots into Windows faster than my friends' SSD equipped machine.

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