Building my pc

[Gandhi]

Hey,

I don't know too much about building pc's but I put £500 into building one. I have not yet purchased anything because I wanted someone else's input...

The specs are:
Case
STYLISH PIANO BLACK ENIGMA MICRO-ATX CASE + 2 FRONT USB

Processor (CPU)
AMD A6-6400K Dual Core APU (4.1GHz) & Radeon™ HD 8470D Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® A58M-E FM2+ (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 2.0, 3Gb/s)

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ R7 240 - DVI,HDMI,VGA - DX® 11

Hard Disk
500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 16MB CACHE

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply
CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY

Processor Cooling
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER

Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£79))

I just wondered if there was anything I could change to make it better/cheaper.

Thanks.
Gandhi

[Disabled Angel]

Firstly, 500GB isn't enough. You'll be left with around 400ish after Windows has installed and I'm sure you want more than a few games on your computer installed. Secondly, if you want to play any game on anything more than low I suggest you get a much better graphics card. Something like an NVIDIA GeForce 760 GTX would allow you to run all next gen and current games on high - medium. I don't know why you're intent on a full AMD build, they are generally worse than NVIDIA and Intel just cheaper. If you want to build a nice computer you may as well spend the additional £500, or you'll spend even more when you want to upgrade the current garbage that is that graphics card. Hop onto a website called PC Specialist, I recently got my custom built computer from them. They give you good prices and a 3 year warranty, as well as tell you what parts will be compatible with each other.

[Barkles]

What's your maximum budget? I could help you improve it if you want...

[Gandhi]

Firstly, 500GB isn't enough. You'll be left with around 400ish after Windows has installed and I'm sure you want more than a few games on your computer installed. Secondly, if you want to play any game on anything more than low I suggest you get a much better graphics card. Something like an NVIDIA GeForce 760 GTX would allow you to run all next gen and current games on high - medium. I don't know why you're intent on a full AMD build, they are generally worse than NVIDIA and Intel just cheaper. If you want to build a nice computer you may as well spend the additional £500, or you'll spend even more when you want to upgrade the current garbage that is that graphics card. Hop onto a website called PC Specialist, I recently got my custom built computer from them. They give you good prices and a 3 year warranty, as well as tell you what parts will be compatible with each other.

I'm buying a 1tb hard disk from a different website. I found a better deal and forgot to mention it on the list.

EDIT: This is also a low budget starter pc that I will be upgrading over the years. I just wanted something that I could work of from the start. I'm not planning on playing games like Battlefield and things like that. It'll mainly be used for source games and rendering things from AE, Blender and C4D

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What's your maximum budget? I could help you improve it if you want...

My Max budget at the moment is £550 but when I will be putting a lot more money into. I'd rather dripfeed it than go in and by the full thing straight away.

[GRiiM]

First things first, have you made this list on PCPartPicker? It'll check the compatibility of your selected hardware.

Also have you considered 'acquiring' a copy of Windows from other sources, you'll save £80 that you can spend on hardware...