First gaming pc

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Well the time has come for me to get a PC that will actually run games within the last 5 years, which I haven't had for a long time lol, thing is I plan on building from scratch and I am not too confident about my ability to tell if everything is compatible or I am going in the right direction in the build so any help would be greatly appreciated.

So here's the parts I am currently looking to get (excluding case, optics and OS), the price comes to around £640 which really is the top of my price range.

Motherboard: MSI 870A-G54 AMD 870
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz
RAM: Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti Twin FrozR II 1024MB
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache
PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 620W Power Supply (especially would like to know if this amount of power would be sufficient and if the brand is good)

I am buying all this from overclockers UK and links can be provided if needed.

Thanks in advance :)
 
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looks good, but you may want to wait for the new Zambezi core processors from AMD. they are expected soon, and to have much better performance.
 
:O, well on the processor side I plan on upgrading after a while, I hope the GPU and mobo should last me a good while. I have decided I am going to spend the extra pennies to get the Phenom 2 X4 955 black edition so I am going to edit that into the first post now, for £12 you cant go far wrong from upgrading from the 840 to 955 right?
 
right. the 955 is unlocked. that means you can get a good OC on it, and thus even better performance from it.
 
Change your board to a AM3+ or atleast a AM3 that will support a AM3+ CPU. So when Zambezi comes out when hell freezes you can upgrade the processor.

Change the harddrive to a Western Digital Black or Samsung F3/4 or a Seagate 7200.12.

The Kingstone is ok memory. But you can usually get better G Skill for the same price or better.
 
I would love to be able to afford a nice AM3+ mobo for a 3rd of the price I am pretty happy with a £70 usb 3.0 and sata 3 mobo. As for the other hard drives there double the price of what I can afford unfortunately.

Anywho I think I should be ok for the meantime as I plan to upgrade to an SSD sometime next year and with that better ram/processor. So anyone have any ideas on what size of a PSU I would need, would 620W be sufficient for what I am looking for?

Thanks for all the ideas nice to know there's a new CPU on the horizon pity is its another thing that I now want which I cant afford :D.
 
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