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[–] Donbuster 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Hmmm, It looks pretty good, especially for a first build. You won't find a lot of people who are fans of Kingston SSDs after the SSDNow v300 debacle, but honestly, there's nothing wrong with them. If this PC is for gaming, you will want to budget a bit out for a beefier PSU and a GPU. Otherwise this looks like a VERY good build for an office PC. If its for gaming, you will want a bit more storage, and maybe try to fit a 750ti or an r7 360 for cheap GPUs, between the two, I would go with the 750ti. I personally am not a huge fan of the A series chips from AMD, but they do serve a purpose on the low end for CPUs, i'm just a Pentium guy.

Which brings me back to my initial point, this is a great office build, and will serve you fine for web browsing, but you will be disappointed by its ability to game, and its not very upgradeable, as its got a weak power supply, and the FM2 socket, iirc, doesn't support FX chips. Personally, I would see if I could find used parts, ideally a G3258 and matching board, go up to a 500-600 watt supply, and upgrade it in the future.

The other thing I notice is that you have Ubuntu selected as an OS. If you are already familiar with Linux, great, don't let me stop you. If you aren't though, I have had a bunch of customers ask for ways to trim prices on PCs, and one of the first things I used to suggest was switching off of Windows onto mint. Very few people were happy with the results. Great as Linux is, people are just too damn familiar with windows, so the transition is rough.

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[–] Donbuster 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well, if its primarily for programming, I think you had a great build first time around, I just assumed gaming, since that's what most of the PC building community is building for. I would suggest getting a discrete graphics card, but not necessarily an expensive gaming card, something cheap, just for the higher pixel rate (number of pixels the card can output per second, in general, AMD hardware takes the crown here over intel and Nvidia), because, as a programmer myself, having multiple monitors is so valuable (coincidentally, if you can get your hands on a 1920x1200 IPS display that supports being turned vertical, do it, its a godsend), but if thats the case, I say that's fine. No need to buff the powersupply for a programmers build, since you won't be running a 300W card in that any time soon. If you can find a desktop R5 300 series card, I would plop that in, or a cheap nvidia GT series card, otherwise, integrated should be fine, since AMD's integrated options are usually stronger than Intel's. For a first build, and considering your workload, this is very well thought out, normally I see shit for gaming where people are trying to run say, an i7, watercooled, and a GTX 750 or similar for GPU. Then again, people doing workstation builds that aren't for video editing are fairly uncommon, at least on the sites I frequent. Good luck with the build.

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[–] motoguy ago 

main use is amateur programming.

Honestly, this is against the grain of the subreddit, but a laptop would serve you better, cause it lets you work wherever you want instead of being confined to your desk.