New Gaming PC

RobRoy

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Hi All

Im looking to buy a new gaming PC to play the latest games such as fallout 4, overwatch and starcraft legacy of the void. I have specced up the following

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **20 Saving** £323.98
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 390 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (AXR9 390 8GBD5-PPDHE) £229.99
1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/8) £44.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA100) £35.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Blue £29.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £19.99
Total : £749.02 (includes shipping : £11.75 Ex.VAT).



This is probably about my max price. Is this OK? Could it be better for the same price?

Thanks for any help :)
 
That looks about the money, an SSD instead of the HDD (then add one later ) might be an option, but it would need to be a 256Gb'ish SSD to stand any chance of fitting a good amount of games on to.

The cheapest good one is the HyperX at £64.99
 
It looks like it wont.

30cm for the Neos is what its saying and the card is 305mm.

Antec GX500 is £10 more and fits.
 
Due to forgetting i need windows 10 i've had to make a few changes to the spec. Could someone have a quick once over of this to make sure everythings OK or perhaps suggest some changes to make it better?

Have i missed anything obvious? I need everything apart from keyboard / mouse and monitor

This is the max i can spend really (will get an SSD at a later date)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Z97-K - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **14 Saving** £245.58
1 x XFX Radeon R9 390 "DD Black Edition" 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-390P-8DB6) £239.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017) £85.99
1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Antec GX500 Midi-Tower - Black £39.95
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £38.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA100) £35.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £781.46 (includes shipping : £12.50 Ex.VAT).

 
Choosing between skylake and a cheaper GPU vs haswell and a more expensive GPU is a tough call. I just bought almost the identical build to your Haswell spec after some discussion with stulid.

I don't know if there's much difference but the Gigabyte bundle seems to be recommended more often than the Asus from what I've seen and it's only £2.40 more.

stulid also recommended the HyperX Savage 2400Mhz RAM which is the same price as the 1600Mhz RAM you linked and also the Vulcan GOLD 2133Mhz that Danny linked. 2400 is a bigger number so surely it's better? ;)

I don't know but it's food for thought at £2.40 more than your most recent spec - and was recommended to me just 2 days ago.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **12 Saving** £247.98
1 x XFX Radeon R9 390 "DD Black Edition" 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-390P-8DB6) £239.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017) £85.99
1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Antec GX500 Midi-Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £38.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA100) £35.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £783.86 (includes shipping : £12.50 Ex.VAT).



I also went from Vista to W10 so had to buy the OS rather than upgrade. There's Windows 7 on multiple laptops in our house but that doesn't help (only in downloading and making a bootable USB for W10) :)
 
Nice one!

Hopefully you get on better than I did in putting it all together. I haven't built a full rig since my Vista machine (8 years) so I was back to feeling like a bomb technician, being overly cautious in trying not to fry anything or blow anything up. Took me hours, but it did all work first time and the cables are far neater than previous attempts :D
 
viiofix said:
Nice one!

Hopefully you get on better than I did in putting it all together. I haven't built a full rig since my Vista machine (8 years) so I was back to feeling like a bomb technician, being overly cautious in trying not to fry anything or blow anything up. Took me hours, but it did all work first time and the cables are far neater than previous attempts :D
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I was the same too :)
 
lol Im like that sometimes. Sometimes just throw everything in then end up worrying that I might have fried something. regards to OP you can get win 10 key for £20 and download software from windows to make a install USB. £65 saving.
 
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tyler_jrb said:
lol Im like that sometimes. Sometimes just throw everything in then end up worrying that I might have fried something. regards to OP you can get win 10 key for £20 and download software from windows to make a install USB. £65 saving.
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I did look at the same thing but could not find somewhere I could verify as reliable enough to get a key from
 
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