Thinking of building a PC - Need HALP

Hello men,

My first payday as a professional non-esport professional is upon me, and I'm thinking about splashing out and getting a proper gayming PC to replace my not-so-professional laptop. This will enable me to fight more easily on the electronic battlefield.

This is my budget build that I have created so far:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£132.40 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£51.00 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£31.67 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£62.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.74 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4GB Video Card (£111.40 @ CCL Computers)
Case: BitFenix Neos Black/Red ATX Mid Tower Case (£29.75 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£63.31 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£9.38 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (£73.99 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: BenQ GL2250HM 60Hz 21.5" Monitor (£89.95 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £690.58
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-20 20:34 BST+0100

What do you think? Obviously this is not an absolute nerdslayer setup, but I don't know anything about this shit, so if anything seems really shit let me know.

Cheers boys
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I don't want to overclock this, I am scared
Also, my budget could probably (if I bought it in little bits) stretch to £800, so if there are any cool upgrades I could do which would make a supersignificant difference then let me know
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Wait a bit for skylake prices to drop.
What is skylake?
Parent
intel's new cpu gen
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New i5's etc? and when will the prices be dropping? Is the i5-4460 a skylake one? Literally so new to this
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http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/THgPpg

This is another list I was recommended, obviously on a different level pricewise to the one I have posted on CF, seem good if I can stump up the ca$h?
Parent
A ton better than your initial post.

skylake's are the 6xxx series. ie i5-6600k. Prices will probably drop in a month or two from now, three at the very most.
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Last question, I promise:

Chances are, even with a super-duper PC, I will still be playing ET. Is there anything here (http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/THgPpg) that you think will make ET work like a shit? It seems to work in strange ways that nobody really understands, and I am slightly concerned about texture loading as AMD cards had issues a few years ago
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It'll work just great. AMD vs nvidia is really just personal preference at this point.
Parent
Gaming setup and 60hz screen? Or no FPS included?
Can you recommend a better screen at a fairly low price?
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BenQ 24" LCD XL2411Z

Less than 250 euros now. But yeah it is probably too much considering your budget.
Try aftermarket.
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Where is it less than €250? :o
Parent
in .ee we have it less than 250
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I bought a PC for £30 less!
Without system and monitor though :(
This shit is expensive son, losing my balls here
Parent
Can't you just not buy the OS and monitor and invest it in the PC instead? (use your old one?)
Parent
I don't have a PC, I roll on a laptop - I just have an old monitor I use as a 2nd screen
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thanks m8, finally a professional setup worthy of #follow.et.db
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