£1600 PC Build

tomb.raid-er · 17 Apr 2014 at 14:07

Hi all,

I have two build projects that I am looking to do. One of them is below.

I am in need of some advise. I am looking to build a PC with a £1600 budget to for system administration, programming and website design.

I won't be doing any gaming on this machine, so a top-end graphics card isn't required. However I do want to run 3 monitors. I do have 3 kinda old monitors at the moment, however it may be that I can possibly add £500 to the build to include monitors. I would ideally like to have monitors that can rotate to portrait. Not sure if OC stock any. Keyboard and mouse I have got.

I kind of got the idea of a good Intel i7 Haswell, 32GB RAM, good SSD, no operating system as it will be running a Linux distro.

Anyone care to help me spec up a machine? Any help would be appreciated!

Doomedspeed · 17 Apr 2014 at 16:42

Easy, with monitors under £1600.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £245.99
3 x Dell UltraSharp U2414H 24" Widescreen LED Slim Bezel Monitor - Midnight Grey £179.99 (£539.97)
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99
1 x MSI Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.95
2 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £95.99 (£191.98)
1 x Gigabyte Z87M-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x Aero Cool Dead Silence Gaming White/Black Mini Tower Windowed £72.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £1,483.73 (includes shipping : ).

tomb.raid-er · 18 Apr 2014 at 07:59

Thanks for the suggestions. Just made a few changes. What do you think?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Force Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £379.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX18C10AT3K4/32X) £249.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £233.99
3 x Dell UltraSharp U2414H 24" Widescreen LED Slim Bezel Monitor - Midnight Grey £179.99 (£539.97)
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £37.99
1 x Zalman Z1 Midi-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £30.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £1,622.81 (includes shipping : ).

drakioned · 18 Apr 2014 at 10:24

Do you really need the K processor?

Are you expecting to program and system admin on an overclocked machine?

If not, then you can look at saving some money and going with the Xeon E3-1230v3 rather than the i7-4770K, and you probably don't need the Z87 board either.

Doomedspeed · 18 Apr 2014 at 11:51

tomb.raid-er said:
Thanks for the suggestions. Just made a few changes. What do you think?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Force Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £379.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX18C10AT3K4/32X) £249.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £233.99
3 x Dell UltraSharp U2414H 24" Widescreen LED Slim Bezel Monitor - Midnight Grey £179.99 (£539.97)
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £37.99
1 x Zalman Z1 Midi-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £30.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £1,622.81 (includes shipping : ).

That's not great, I still stand by my spec.

The board you've chosen is a waste of £200+. You won't cone close to using any of the features you pay the extra for.

The RAM I specced is cheaper and the same amount.

Don't scimp on the case or psu either.

No offense but my spec is better for your wallet and your needs in everyway.

.

dacads · 18 Apr 2014 at 11:57

You can always go with an ATX case and motherboard unless there's a reason to go mATX

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black (CC-9011014-WW) £59.99
Total : £142.98 (includes shipping : ).

sybaris · 18 Apr 2014 at 12:55

As I understand, over clocking an i7 4770K is not stable with 32gb of RAM

V4NT0M · 18 Apr 2014 at 21:35

Doomed is right.

Is there a particular program or need for 32gb of ram, or indeed for the high budget? Seems like unless I'm missing something that's a lot of cash for what amounts to light work.

CrixxzeH · 19 Apr 2014 at 07:44

Doomedspeed said:
Easy, with monitors under £1600.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £245.99
3 x Dell UltraSharp U2414H 24" Widescreen LED Slim Bezel Monitor - Midnight Grey £179.99 (£539.97)
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99
1 x MSI Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.95
2 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £95.99 (£191.98)
1 x Gigabyte Z87M-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x Aero Cool Dead Silence Gaming White/Black Mini Tower Windowed £72.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £1,483.73 (includes shipping : ).

+1

Could change the monitors to 3x - Dell Studio S2240L 22"
save yourself some cash to put to the gpu since its going to be running 3 monitors.