Building a PC - Budget £1500-£1800

Asus boards are good, use them myself in a few of my builds. One thing to bear in mind is Gigabyte have a UK RMA address making life lots easier in the event of problems
 
Alright, the Gigabyte H87_HD3 board seems like a good shout. So, because connecting an Ethernet cable to the PC will be impractical, do you recommend using a network card (PCIE) or a USB wi-fi adapter?
 
Alright, I'm back again with an updated spec - getting closer to a final, great build now!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus SonicMaster MX299Q 29" Ultra Widescreen Ultra Slim Bezel LED Monitor - Black with Bang & Olufsen ICEpower Speakers £399.95
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE500BW) £289.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI332G160C9QK) £259.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4771 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P10 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £139.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 550D Quiet Midi Tower Case - Black (CC-9011015-WW) £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-08289) £109.99
1 x Gigabyte H87-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £80.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x Cherry G80-3000 Mechanical Keyboard - Blue Switch £64.99
1 x Asus HD 6450 SILENT EDITION 1024MB GDDR3 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card £39.95
1 x Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Pro SR1 CPU Cooler £39.95
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter (TL-WN821NC) £11.95
Total : £1,916.76 (includes shipping : £27.55).




I am still open to suggestions of course, and will continue looking at RAID options for the hard drives - but nothing too complicated, as my dad just wants a PC which will run fast, load programs quickly and will be reliable.

Also, I am not up to date on the lower end Graphics Cards but I assume that the HD6450 Silent I chose here will be enough to possibly run multiple monitors in the future.
 
lee32uk said:
You could save £50 on the PSU

YOUR BASKET
1 x Seasonic G series 650w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
Total : £99.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Review: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=348
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Seems pretty good from that review, however I didn't really see much of a mention of noise - ideally, he'd like the computer to be as quiet as possible which is why I opted for that BeQuiet PSU. However, that Seasonic looks very good and if it is fairly quiet then I'll probably opt for that one instead.
 
I have a slightly new build idea for this system, it is X79 based - but I'm thinking it's probably a bit overkill for what he needs so I'll probably stick to a 4770 system. But here's the spec anyway:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE500BW) £289.99
1 x Asus SonicMaster MX279H 27" Widescreen Ultra Slim Bezel LED Monitor - Black with Bang & Olufsen ICEpower Speakers £275.99
1 x Intel 4820K 3.70GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail (BX80633I74820K) £259.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (GEL332GB1866C10QC) £239.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £154.99
1 x BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P10 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £139.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 550D Quiet Midi Tower Case - Black (CC-9011015-WW) £119.99
1 x PNY Nvidia Quadro NVS 300 Dual DVI Low Profile Graphics Card - 512MB - GDDR3 SDRAM £109.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-08289) £109.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1003FZEX) HDD £79.99
1 x NH-U12S Ultra-Quiet Slim CPU Cooler with NF-F12 Fan £52.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £1,880.53 (includes shipping : £22.20).



Here is roughly the same spec but Haswell based:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE500BW) £289.99
1 x Asus SonicMaster MX279H 27" Widescreen Ultra Slim Bezel LED Monitor - Black with Bang & Olufsen ICEpower Speakers £275.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (GEL332GB1866C10QC) £239.99
1 x BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P10 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £139.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 550D Quiet Midi Tower Case - Black (CC-9011015-WW) £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-08289) £109.99
1 x PNY Nvidia Quadro NVS 300 Dual DVI Low Profile Graphics Card - 512MB - GDDR3 SDRAM £109.99
1 x Gigabyte H87-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £80.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1003FZEX) HDD £79.99
1 x NH-U12S Ultra-Quiet Slim CPU Cooler with NF-F12 Fan £52.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £1,786.52 (includes shipping : £22.20).

 
Haswell takes dual channel ram, also here is a much better PSU but much cheaper, and a better mobo for the haswell build, incase you feel the need over clock in the future.

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD316G2133HC11ADC01) £129.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £107.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
Total : £321.53 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Fallen god said:
Haswell takes dual channel ram, also here is a much better PSU but much cheaper, and a better mobo for the haswell build, incase you feel the need over clock in the future.

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD316G2133HC11ADC01) £129.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £107.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
Total : £321.53 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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This is for my dad's build by the way, and he won't be overclocking (I'll be getting the 4770, non k edition, for this). He will need 32GB of RAM so just 16GB of dual channel is not an option I'm afraid.

Also, I picked that PSU because this build needs to be quiet - is that Superflower quiet (I'd imagine it probably is given the quality of Superflower units)?
 
If you're going haswell go for the 4771, no the 4770.. It has extra instructions enabled..

Though personally you could slip a xeon in there:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620v2 2.10GHz 6-Core with Hyperthreading & Turbo (Socket 2011) - Retail £319.99
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE500BW) £289.99
1 x Asus SonicMaster MX279H 27" Widescreen Ultra Slim Bezel LED Monitor - Black with Bang & Olufsen ICEpower Speakers £275.99
1 x MSI X79A-GD45 Plus (8D) Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £149.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 550D Quiet Midi Tower Case - Black (CC-9011015-WW) £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-08289) £109.99
2 x GeIL Black Dragon 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD316GB1600C11DC) **OcUK Exclusive** £107.99 (£215.98)
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 650 Black Knight OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99 (£131.98)
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Silverstone Argon SST-AR01 CPU Cooler - 120mm £28.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £1,836.34 (includes shipping : £32.90).



6 cores of goodness. :)

32GB of RAM

2TB of mirror storage. :)
 
A xeon build is likely not necessary for the work he will be doing, an Haswell i7 4771 will be the better option in my opinion. Not a lot of storage will be required either, as his current computer has only ~250GB used; so the 500GB EVO SSD and a 1TB HDD (for backups) are enough.

That GTX-650 could be a bit loud for this build couldn't it, that's why I opted for the low profile quadro series GPU in my spec.

Also, is there any reason why you chose 2 kits of dual channel as opposed to 1 kit of quad?

Cheers for the advice and suggestions everyone, by the way :)
 
PhysicsMan94 said:
This is for my dad's build by the way, and he won't be overclocking (I'll be getting the 4770, non k edition, for this). He will need 32GB of RAM so just 16GB of dual channel is not an option I'm afraid.

Also, I picked that PSU because this build needs to be quiet - is that Superflower quiet (I'd imagine it probably is given the quality of Superflower units)?
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The ram was meant to be 2x 16gb my bad, i picked dual channel since 1150 only supports 2 channel ram I believe, only x79 I believe offers 4 channel ram, so just get 2x 16gb. From what I have seen/heard the Superflower is really quiet and with the amount you save it is well worth it.
 
Fallen god said:
The ram was meant to be 2x 16gb my bad, i picked dual channel since 1150 only supports 2 channel ram I believe, only x79 I believe offers 4 channel ram, so just get 2x 16gb. From what I have seen/heard the Superflower is really quiet and with the amount you save it is well worth it.
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Ok, cheers that's very helpful; didn't realise Haswell doesn't support Quad Channel RAM. :)
 
PhysicsMan94 said:
Also, is there any reason why you chose 2 kits of dual channel as opposed to 1 kit of quad?

Cheers for the advice and suggestions everyone, by the way :)
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Probably because it is cheaper buying 2 kits of dual channel as opposed to 1 kit of quad channel.


YOUR BASKET
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (GEL332GB1866C10QC) £239.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-20800C10 2600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit £239.99
1 x GeIL EVO Corsa 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (GOC332GB1600C10QC) £229.99
Total : £719.57 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
So, here is the updated spec.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE500BW) £289.99
1 x Asus SonicMaster MX279H 27" Widescreen Ultra Slim Bezel LED Monitor - Black with Bang & Olufsen ICEpower Speakers £275.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4771 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 550D Quiet Midi Tower Case - Black (CC-9011015-WW) £119.99
1 x PNY Nvidia Quadro NVS 300 Dual DVI Low Profile Graphics Card - 512MB - GDDR3 SDRAM £109.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-08289) £109.99
2 x GeIL Black Dragon 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD316GB1600C11DC) **OcUK Exclusive** £107.99 (£215.98)
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £107.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1003FZEX) HDD £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x NH-U12S Ultra-Quiet Slim CPU Cooler with NF-F12 Fan £52.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £1,723.51 (includes shipping : £22.20).



Note that that monitor is not necessarily final and we will probably go to the OcUK store at some point so that he can test some out - down to preference.

And note I chose that GPU because it's low profile and has multi-monitor support.
 
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