Gaming Rig - £900 Budget

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Hi everyone,

Long time lurker, first time poster!

I haven't kept up to date with PC hardware since my old AMD Barton Core days... So that's saying something! I've been playing on gaming laptops ever since but it's time for a change.

Main purpose of the PC is to play the latest games at a respectable framerate and, importantly, stream them (using xsplit).

My only requirements would be an Nvidia GPU and an SSD... I can buy an additional SATA drive a month later (budget has to be strictly 900 as it's a company buy).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
 
Shipping takes me just the tiniest bit over but how about this? I've compromised slightly on the motherboard and the power supply (both are still quality components) to get you a GTX780 in budget.

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK Geforce GTX 780 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x Corsair Graphite Series 230T Compact Mid Tower Case (CC-9011036-WW) £57.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 550W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £47.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
Total : £907.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).



If you were willing to drop to a GTX 770 and do a slightly more rounded build I would swap to the below.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 770 Gaming Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Corsair Graphite Series 230T Compact Mid Tower Case (CC-9011036-WW) £57.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
Total : £839.47 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Personally I'd put my money in the first build though. Theres quite a big difference between the 770 and 780.
 
Thanks for the advice! I'll be streaming 720p, definitely won't be in 1080 as it'll be a casual gaming stream... Nothing too hardcore.

How big a drop is a 780 to a 770? I'm more inclined to go for the well rounded build at the moment!
 
There is a little bit more to keep in mind when going for the 780. At the minute no benchmark in that anandtech comparison will breach the 2GB of Vram that the 770 has. Once games start requiring more than 2GB of memory the lead of the 780 will grow massively.

Theres not a huge amount of difference between the spec of the two builds once you remove the graphcis card. The Sniper motherboard has better onboard audio than the SLI one in the first spec but thats about it for the difference. Both of the superflower PSU's are relatively low end units but obviously the Golden Green is better than the Amazon. I suppose it's also worth considering that the paticular 770 I picked has a better cooler than the paticular 780, but to be fair, those titan style coolers are meant to be very good for traditional blower units and it helps to get the hot air out of the case.

But then if you do go for the cheaper build, you have budget left over for a storage drive.

Actually, this post is probably no help whatsoever. The choice as they say, is yours :p
 
Sorry in advance i have seen this post and have the exact same budget, so I am going to hijack this post instead of making my own = )

Which would be better

The OCUK 780 or the KFA2 780 ?

And I assume both these cards would be better than a 4GB 770 ?

Thanks
Daniel
 
FRAGMAYO said:
Sorry in advance i have seen this post and have the exact same budget, so I am going to hijack this post instead of making my own = )

Which would be better

The OCUK 780 or the KFA2 780 ?

And I assume both these cards would be better than a 4GB 770 ?

Thanks
Daniel
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KFA2 for the after market cooler more than anything, not really a big deal when cards come pre-overclocked (its easy enough to do yourself). And yes they are both better than a 770.

Also as "Reaper" suggested why not a AMD GPU? They do amazing bang for your buck.
 
BinnsY said:
There is a little bit more to keep in mind when going for the 780. At the minute no benchmark in that anandtech comparison will breach the 2GB of Vram that the 770 has. Once games start requiring more than 2GB of memory the lead of the 780 will grow massively.
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Haha thanks, it was in fact helpful, it's given me a clearer idea of what I want and how far I really want to future proof.

ThaReaperGuy said:
Any reason why it has to be a Nvidia card?
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To be honest with you, I only wanted Nvidia because of the Shadowplay Twitch technology. It might not wholly be necessary considering I can use Xsplit, which would still be the more efficient streaming choice from what I've read.

Which means actually, using Anandtech's Bench and Overclocker's price for reference, the AMD R9 280x might be the smarter choice. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-246-MS
 
innocuousm said:
Which means actually, using Anandtech's Bench and Overclocker's price for reference, the AMD R9 280x might be the smarter choice. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-246-MS
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If you drop the nVidia requirement than as much as I'm an nVidia fan I struggle to argue with this.

You could even push to an AMD 290, keep the better PSU and better motherboard and still come in under budget. The 290 is on par with a 780 so this is actually the best build yet.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Radeon R9 290 "Voltage Unlocked" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Corsair Graphite Series 230T Compact Mid Tower Case (CC-9011036-WW) £57.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
Total : £889.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
BinnsY said:
If you drop the nVidia requirement than as much as I'm an nVidia fan I struggle to argue with this.

You could even push to an AMD 290, keep the better PSU and better motherboard and still come in under budget. The 290 is on par with a 780 so this is actually the best build yet.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Radeon R9 290 "Voltage Unlocked" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Corsair Graphite Series 230T Compact Mid Tower Case (CC-9011036-WW) £57.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
Total : £889.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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Be prepared for all the heat and noise related comedy posts, if going for a 290/290x you'll be wanting the non ref cooler ones unless you plan to watercool/change stock cooler to third party.
 
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