new gaming rig advice pls

panicbuy

panicbuy

panicbuy

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Ive started a new thread as my circumstances have changed.
Originally my budget was around £600 but a bit of fortune I can now stretch to £800
I also said I wanted to buy a pre built system as I have no idea how to build a pc but I might
have found someone to build this for me.
So if someone could advise me what spec this would be much appreciated.
I hoping to play games like battlefield and other similar.
And also have a machine for fast internet.
Sorry if ive doubled my post but wanted to be clear on this.
I also have monitor and keyboard already and my current gaming rig will go upstairs for daughter.

any advice would be appreciated here
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card with Battlefield 4 PC Game £251.99
1 x Asus M5A99X PRO R2.0 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £107.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £751.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).



The 280X will serve you well in BF4. With the motherboard and CPU cooler you (or whoever builds it for you) will be able to get a decent overclock on the 8320.

That leaves you with £50 (including shipping) to get either a small SSD or an OS. I'd get the SSD now and use a 3 month trial of Windows 8.1.

Or an Intel build without the SSD/OS room in the budget:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card with Battlefield 4 PC Game £251.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £97.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £791.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Battlefield 4 PC Game £275.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £107.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
Total : £797.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
gaming pc

OPERATING SYSTEM
windows 7 home premium 64bit SP1

CPU
intel i5 2500k 3.30 ghz
sandy bridge 32nm

RAM
8GB dual channel DDR3 @666 MHz (9-9-9-24)

MOTHERBOARD
Asus P8Z68-V LE (LGA 1155)

GRAPHICS
Asus VS247 (1920X1080@60Hz)
3072 MB ATI Radeon HD 7900 series

STORAGE
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN162

OPTICAL DRIVES
TSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-B123L

AUDIO
Realtek high definition

his is my current pc iam running but will probably give this to my daughter

Iam not sure how to find out what case it is but I do own windows 7
 
As I dont know much about what goes into a pc would all the above specs be better than my current pc
would I see much improvement
 
panicbuy said:
OPERATING SYSTEM
windows 7 home premium 64bit SP1

CPU
intel i5 2500k 3.30 ghz
sandy bridge 32nm

RAM
8GB dual channel DDR3 @666 MHz (9-9-9-24)

MOTHERBOARD
Asus P8Z68-V LE (LGA 1155)

GRAPHICS
Asus VS247 (1920X1080@60Hz)
3072 MB ATI Radeon HD 7900 series

STORAGE
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN162

OPTICAL DRIVES
TSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-B123L

AUDIO
Realtek high definition

his is my current pc iam running but will probably give this to my daughter

Iam not sure how to find out what case it is but I do own windows 7
Click to expand...

This is your current PC?

That is still a good rig...

I have something similar and handles all my games at 1080p, just overclock the CPU and you're laughing.

Is the GPU a 7950 or 7970?
 
Think we have a few members around Hampshire, maybe find them and ask for help if you get stuck with the build man!
 
As above: an SSD and some faster RAM.

Is your CPU overclocked? If not, add a CPU cooler to the list.
 
my daughter wants a gaming pc so my thoughts on this was to give my current pc to my daughter and start a new build or even buy a pre built gaming pc.
I was also going to add ssd to current pc so start up was faster
 
what a crazy thread this is lol
as said your pc is fine, just buy some faster ram and ssd and a better gfx card :) and maybe a psu
what gfx and psu do you currently have?


4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 2200(O.C.)/2133(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory
i would go for this and change the xmp profile in the bios to 2200mhz
YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
Total : £64.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).

 
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the gfx is the graphic card, you have said you have a 7900 series which could be a 7950 or a 7970 or 7990...
the psu is the power supply unit which is the thing that powers the pc, the make/model and wattage will be written on the side of it most likely
sod it.. maybe it is easier if someone links you a pre built system for that budget
 
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz 37 °C
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z68-V LE (LGA1155) 32 °C
Graphics
ASUS VS247 (1920x1080@60Hz)
3072MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series (ATI AIB) 48 °C
Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN162 ATA Device (SATA) 31 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-B123L ATA Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

this is all I can find out unless I open up pc
 
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