PLZ HELP gaming/recording rig purchase

amllradam

amllradam

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hi im looking to get a new rig i record vids for youtube with games like borderlands 2 and call of duty, my budget is £1000 and im not sure which way is best to go amd - intel or which gpu is gonna give best bang for buck or how much memory. or is best to go with OC prebuilt plz can anyone help. will be much apprciated

this is what i was looking at something like
Intel Core i5 4670K
gtx 770 4096mb
ssd 120 gb
16 gb ram not sure what brand

many thanks adam
 
Hi

I don't think you need huge amounts of Ram for video recording, although someone correct me if i'm wrong :)

Here is a starter. I haven't included the operating system so you might need to add that.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £229.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £67.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £61.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £868.37 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Obviously you could change things around if you want a better gpu or cpu.

If you want to spend the whole budget then you could go i7 4790K and R9 290, although if you need the OS as well you would be a few quid over.

If you feel you want 16GB Ram then swap the above for the 2 x 8GB kit.
 
thanks for the reply not had much experience with radeon cards always been nvidia any reason why you suggest the 280x, and i have been reading that for recording the amd 8 cores would do a better job not sure what to do now lol

had a look and what do you think about this
Powercolor Radeon R9 290X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359
AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £143.99
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £129.95
Corsair CS650M 650W Semi-Modular 80+ GOLD Certified Power Supply (CP-9020077-UK) £67.99
Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S3B7A/120G) **Upgrade Bundle Kit /w Adapter** £67.99
Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £61.99
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £49.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
Xigmatek Dark Knight SD-1283 Frost Bourne Edition CPU Cooler £41.99
Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49

Total £996.36
 
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If you're going to be recording, you'll probably be rendering as well so a good CPU and a decent amount of RAM will be important. I went a tad overbudget, but the motherboard comes with a free headset worth ~£30. :)
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Asus Radeon R9 280X DirectCUII OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Gold (HX21C11BGK2/16-OC) £119.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Corsair Graphite Series 230T Compact Mid Tower Case Windowed - Grey (CC-9011040-WW) £66.95
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £56.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
Total : £1,024.37 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 770 Phantom 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £281.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX24C11BRK2/8-OC) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £44.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £1,021.81 (includes shipping : £19.10).

 
amllradam said:
how do you do the basket thing lol and do them cases have dust filters as i have quite a few pet. also is 550w enough power
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The 230T in my spec and the 200R in dacads spec both have filtered front intake and PSU intakes :) Whether or not you want to grab a filter for the top intake/exhaust is up to you. The 550W PSU in both of our specs should power anything up to an R9 290 so long as it isn't heavily OC'd.
 
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