Help building pc!!!

[Joestat99]

Hey im building a pc for the first time. Im looking to play minecraft, and some steam games like gmod. Also maybe some video editing. I have about $550 and need advice for some parts. This is what I came up with:

Cpu: Amd athlon quad core richland 760k 3.8 ghz ($78)
Ram: 8gb G.skill ripjaws ram ($68)
Gpu: Sapphire radeon r9 270x ($160)
Storage: 1 tb western digital ($51)
Psu: 500w Evga certified power supply ($39.99)
Motherboard: MSI A78M-E35 FM2+ / FM2 AMD A78 (Bolton D3) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard (59.99)
Os: windows 8.1 ($80)
Drive: Samsung 5 star dvdr drive ($25)
Wifi: Asus
ASUS(PCE-N15) maximum performance Wireless-N Network Adapter ($28)

Is this a good build? Thanks for the input

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[96Firebird]

The guys over in General Hardware can probably do a better job of critiquing your build. See if a mod can move this for you.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Hey im building a pc for the first time. Im looking to play minecraft, and some steam games like gmod. Also maybe some video editing. I have about $550 and need advice for some parts. This is what I came up with:

Cpu: Amd athlon quad core richland 760k 3.8 ghz ($78)
Ram: 8gb G.skill ripjaws ram ($68)
Gpu: Sapphire radeon r9 270x ($160)
Storage: 1 tb western digital ($51)
Psu: 500w Evga certified power supply ($39.99)
Motherboard: MSI A78M-E35 FM2+ / FM2 AMD A78 (Bolton D3) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard (59.99)
Os: windows 8.1 ($80)
Drive: Samsung 5 star dvdr drive ($25)
Wifi: Asus
ASUS(PCE-N15) maximum performance Wireless-N Network Adapter ($28)

Is this a good build? Thanks for the input

You're already at $590 without a case.

 

[stahlhart]

Moving to General Hardware.
-- stahlhart

 

[Ken g6]

It looks like you want to play older games that do better with one or two fast cores. Unless you're a really good overclocker you'd probably do better with Intel.

I have [thread=2389797]a thread with suggested $500 PC builds[/thread]. Do you want to overclock? If so, you might do better with the G3258 build (link near the bottom); otherwise aim for the i3 build. A DVD drive and WiFi adapter appear to bring your build close to that $550 limit.

Edit: By the way, where are you getting Windows for $80?