First build, thoughts & ideas welcome

Do you need a GPU at all at the moment? For around £600 you could get a 4670k build without one and use the onboard graphics until you want to play something more demanding that Football Manager.
 
Fulax said:
Do you need a GPU at all at the moment? For around £600 you could get a 4670k build without one and use the onboard graphics until you want to play something more demanding that Football Manager.
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Hi, probably not. I may look at the APU option (i'd missed that when I looked before:rolleyes:)

I can then add one as suggested. If I went with this, what's a good motherboard?
 
Someone might want to correct me on this, but I think Intel's onboard graphics will be adequate for your current needs (blu-ray playback and Football Manager). And all you'd to need to add for a pretty darn good gaming rig (should you decide you want one) would be a GPU.

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1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87M-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £95.99
1 x Aero Cool Dead Silence Gaming White/Black Mini Tower Windowed £72.95
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 Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x Pioneer BDC-207DBK 8x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM) £49.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £618.97 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
Ok, looking at the APU now (my last post was absolute nonsense), looking at partnering the APU with the FM2A85X Extreme4-M. Will give me the option to add in a GPU and crossfire in the future.

Some fast RAM (2400) and I think i'm away...
 
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Ok, firstly thanks for all the help, and secondly apologies for the going backwards and forwards. I appreciate the patience whilst I try and learn.

I'm set on the below and will be ordering today, I think i needed to do more research before I asked for your guys time.

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 1GB Video Card
Case: Aerocool DS Cube Black Edition Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair RM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

This comes in at £503, and I've managed to sneak the SSD in for that.

I couldn't see a huge amount of difference between the 7850 and the 7870 in my research, so for £40 less the 7850 seemed to make sense.

I went mATX in the end as I fancy a smaller build. I got a Pioneer BDR-208EBK for Xmas, so Bluray I'm covered.

Thanks again
 
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