~£500 build to play GTA V

[TheInfamous]

hey guys,
I've decided to turn in my laptop and spend some money on a tower to play GTA V when it comes out. I already have a mouse, keyboard, monitor, ssd and an OS.

I have roughly £500 to spend and I just want GTA V to run nicely. Any help is appreciated.

 

[ShivP]

Something Intel which has a better upgrade path
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x MSI Z97 PC Mate Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £513.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).







or AMD which will probably be a bit faster and is overclockable but less upgradeable - included a cooler so you can OC it a bit

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £71.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £14.99
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £534.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).




Mobo should allow 8320 in the future?

 

[stulid]

I would wait for the recommended specs for this game to be officially announced by Rockstar.

or AMD which will probably be a bit faster and is overclockable but less upgradeable - included a cooler so you can OC it a bit

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280 Gaming 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £71.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £14.99
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £528.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).




Mobo should allow 8320 in the future?

Thats not very good.



YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card (11221-12-20G) £179.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Antec TruePower Classic 550w '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £54.95
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x BeQuiet! Pure Rock Cpu Cooler - 120mm £21.49
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
Total : £519.97 (includes shipping : £8.00).



280X and it comes with free games

Better cooler than the Rajintek

Board will take this eight core cpu - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-383-AM&groupid=701&catid=1967&subcat=1825

 

[TheInfamous]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, is there a big difference between the 6 core and 8 core CPU for games?

 

[stulid]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, is there a big difference between the 6 core and 8 core CPU for games?

Not massively - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/699?vs=698 - http://gamegpu.ru/images/remote/htt..._GPU-Action-Battlefield_4-test-bf4_proz_2.jpg

 

[TheInfamous]

Not massively - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/699?vs=698 - http://gamegpu.ru/images/remote/htt..._GPU-Action-Battlefield_4-test-bf4_proz_2.jpg

Thanks for the help stulid, I don't mean to mess you about but I have managed to sneak my budget up to ~£600-£700 could you recommend me something intel with a good upgrade path?

Thanks

 

[stulid]

Wait for the game to come out, then there are bound to be reviews done on it showing how CPU and GFX choices affect performance.

 

[BluD]

yeah idd, if your just making it for GTA5 then i would find out which GPU/CPu it prefers.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

a ps4?
but seriously wait for specs to be released or performance reviews

 

[maxImusPrime]

GTA V PC system requirements:

MINIMUM:
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz or Phenom II X2 545
GPU: GeForce GT 530
RAM: 4GB
OS: Windows 7,8,8.1 64bit
HDD Space: 20GB
RECOMMENDED:
CPU Core i5-2500T 2.3GHz or Phenom II X4 975
GPU: GeForce GTX 480 or Radeon HD 6970
RAM: 6GB
OS: Windows 7,8,8.1 64bit
HDD Space: 20GB

 

[Huntyz]

Wow I was expecting recommended to be a lot higher than that but I hope that means it's optimised better this time.

 

[stulid]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18333465&page=120

Read that apge.

those specs look fake, recommending a 4 year old GFX card?

 

[Danny75]

Game hardware recommendations tend to be a joke. They want maximum buyers for their games so they set the hardware requirements bar really low (too low in many cases).

 

[kaku]

Minimum/recommended specs are often guessed, placeholder, or copy/pasted from other games. I wouldn't take too much notice of them.

 

[TheInfamous]

Hey guys, I'm about to hit the trigger on a build because I'm not waiting around for GTA V again Does this look okay?

 

[stulid]

That's fine. Buy it.