£800 all in pc build

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So i'm new to this kind of thing! never built a computer in my life. but it looks fairly simple i suppose so i figured i'd try making one. I'm starting this project around july time. I figured i'd spend around £800 on a computer for gaming, as this is the main reason i'm getting one.
Looking for everything inc monitor keyboard mouse. should this build have an SSD in it ?i'm not sure what the pro's and con's are to having one

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Naxxy
 
Oh forgot to put what game's ill be playing. Pretty much MX simulator, Tera, Smite, COD, Crisis... probably all games :P also about of recording/streaming in there for youtube
 
well 800 for just a tower is a ok price....but you said you want a full rig including monitor, does this also include peripherials (keyboard, mouse, headset, speakers) because that will dwindle the price down a lot.

if you dont need peripherals that puts the tower to a budget of £700 and £100 for a monitor (cheapest price for a 24" monitor)
If you need a full peripheral list then you would put the tower build down to a lower amount of £630. (£20 headset, £10 cheap keyboard, £40 good gaming mouse)

but on a budget of £650, You could Build a Intel/Nvidia System which could play most games at good settings. This might give you an idea of what you can get for the money.

Intel I5 3750K @ £170
Gigabyte G1-Sniper M3 Mobo @ £120
Corsair 8GB 1600Mhz Ram @ £35 (Single stick can upgrade on stick a month for a total of 32gb ram)
Corsair TXM850 @ £100 (You can Opt for less power, 650w should be ample amount for this system)
Cooler master K380 case @ £40 (this is just a basic case with decent cable management, can save money and go more basic)
Nvidia 660 or AMD 7870, (amd is about £10-£20 cheaper) both perform competitively against each other.

Hope this gives you an idea what your money will get you.
 
SheriffHD said:
well 800 for just a tower is a ok price....but you said you want a full rig including monitor, does this also include peripherials (keyboard, mouse, headset, speakers) because that will dwindle the price down a lot.

if you dont need peripherals that puts the tower to a budget of £700 and £100 for a monitor (cheapest price for a 24" monitor)
If you need a full peripheral list then you would put the tower build down to a lower amount of £630. (£20 headset, £10 cheap keyboard, £40 good gaming mouse)

but on a budget of £650, You could Build a Intel/Nvidia System which could play most games at good settings. This might give you an idea of what you can get for the money.

Intel I5 3750K @ £170
Gigabyte G1-Sniper M3 Mobo @ £120
Corsair 8GB 1600Mhz Ram @ £35 (Single stick can upgrade on stick a month for a total of 32gb ram)
Corsair TXM850 @ £100 (You can Opt for less power, 650w should be ample amount for this system)
Cooler master K380 case @ £40 (this is just a basic case with decent cable management, can save money and go more basic)
Nvidia 660 or AMD 7870, (amd is about £10-£20 cheaper) both perform competitively against each other.

Hope this gives you an idea what your money will get you.
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Couple of things:
Mobo - You dont need to shell out for the sniper, the Z77-D3H is the best budget board, if he wants SLI/xFire, the Z77X-D3H will suffice.
PSU - Corsair's are unreliable, would put money on a xfx550 for a single card or xfx 750w if planning SLI. There is BeQuiet, Seasonic & Strider also.
GPU - 660 is not great value for money. If you want nVidia, you should be looking at 670 or AMD, the 7950/7970 once the 8 series have been released.
 
a i5 build with a monitor and o/s is a very tight budget, i can't even do it today, so guess you won't be going down that route in July either tbh, £1000 budget would be better for a i5 build with a complete system

1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £161.99
1 x Samsung S22B300BS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Glossy Black £99.98
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £71.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £57.98
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £31.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x Logitech S-220 2.1 Speaker System - OEM (980-000022) £19.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £11.99
2 x OcUK Tech Labs Zaward OEM 120mm Golf Ball Fan £2.99 (£5.98)
Total : £823.34 (includes shipping : £13.75).



no sdd mind you, best i can do without going B grade, could grab a cheaper video and go 1gb etc, but drop spec too much and might as well gone amd tbh

1 x Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £161.99
1 x Samsung S22B300BS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Glossy Black £99.98
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £71.99
1 x Adata Premier Pro SP900 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (ASP900S3-64GM-C) £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £57.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/8X) £55.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x ASRock FM2A55M-DGS AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £44.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x Logitech S-220 2.1 Speaker System - OEM (980-000022) £19.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £11.99
2 x OcUK Tech Labs Zaward OEM 120mm Golf Ball Fan £2.99 (£5.98)
Total : £788.33 (includes shipping : £13.75).



trinity option with sdd added, same spec other wise from above, apart from ram, chose some 2400 speed ram as trinity likes faster stuff
 
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Trinity with the price he has in mind is pointless. Throw in a b-grade 7850/7950 & HDD to bring the price down with a i5k.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Samsung S24B300BS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Glossy Black £139.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £129.95
1 x Asus P8Z77-V LX2 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £77.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £71.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-257-SE) £45
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.98
1 x Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £35.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £32.99
1 x Zalman ZM-K200M Multimedia/Gaming Keyboard £9.98
1 x Gigabyte M6800 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £7.98
Total : £843.31 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
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true, agreed, but your still £44 over budget with more then he may want to spend, i'd increase the budget to get away from using B grade or alter what i wanted to do, or lower my parts for now and add later when money / budget is better etc

that's more than my i5 spec, with a larger monitor yes, but still no sdd and using B grade
 
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Nothing wrong with using b-grade parts. And you can save £30 by removing the cooler to bring it back into budget.
 
You could further cut the price back by not running a Z77 board, nothing wrong with the H77 or even B75 chipsets. HD7850 provides IMO the best bang for buck graphics on the market today, try this one I have one personally overclocks like a beast and runs everything on ultra.

(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-052-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411)

If you wanted to keep the after market cooler, that is all well and good but unless your doing some overclocking the stock cooler is fine.

Probably going to get flamed for this but why not use FX8320/8350 and Am3+ mobo as they are cheaper?
 
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Z77 boards allow overclocking of K model CPU's whereas H77 mobo's are locked on the multiplier. There also is very small difference in cost between a decent H77 and Z77 board.

The cost of an FX chip plus a decent AM3+ mobo (one which good VRM's) is nearly as much as a i5 K cpu plus a Z77 motherboard but performs worse in games.
 
I wouldnt wait till July.

Doubt the new socket/CPU will be much of an improvement over the 1155/i5.

You could wait till July, then buy the the stuff listed above at a slightly cheaper price i suppose.
 
Just trying to get the cost performance down, if it's a gaming rig more money you can save on other hardware = better graphics card. Also the i5 3570k (which you already have so you are going to be slightly biased to it), is the same cost as an FX8350, which performance wise (with exception to single threaded programs) is comparable if not better than the i5 3570K. The cheapest Z77 mobo is like 75 quid while the basic AM3+ 970 is closer to 55 quid. Socket 1155 is a dead upgrade path too as Haswell is socket 1150.

Fair point on the H77 but the OP didn't mention anything about overclocking; hence why I was trying to throw up other ideas. I am not an AMD fan boy or anything as I currently run an I7-3820, just I don't see what is the point in picking up a dead socket. Two best options are A) wait for Haswell, but it is likely to be out of budget or B) Top end AMD, which will just get cheaper.
 
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Just trying to get the cost performance down, if it's a gaming rig more money you can save on other hardware = better graphics card. Also the i5 3570k (which you already have so you are going to be slightly biased to it), is the same cost as an FX8350, which performance wise (with exception to single threaded programs) is comparable if not better than the i5 3570K. The cheapest Z77 mobo is like 75 quid while the basic AM3+ 970 is closer to 55 quid. Socket 1155 is a dead upgrade path too as Haswell is socket 1150.
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Theres a reason I and a lot of people have the i5. Also look at the CPU benchmarks out in the CPU area. Gaming in general with every game out there the i5 will out perform the FX chip. This is because the architecture of the i5 chips are much better than that of the FX chips.

Buying a cheap motherboard for the AM3 socket doesnt work like that. Your looking at around £100 maybe less for a decent board with good VRM's.

Also on the overclocking front when both chips are overclocked the difference between the 2 at stock vastly increases because the Intel chip can overclock to a much higher standard and for gaming at stock it is still the better chip.
 
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