Hi id like to build a gaming PC to play Battlefield 4 and ARMA budget is £1500

Are you good with following instructions/being hands-on and the like?

There are plenty of guides available on the internet, including videos on youtube of how to build a PC once you have your components.

Just don't want you to take on the task of building it and then find it all too overwhelming and getting stressed out. Not a nice way to ease yourself into the PC gaming master race :)
 
Spuddy said:
Are you good with following instructions/being hands-on and the like?

There are plenty of guides available on the internet, including videos on youtube of how to build a PC once you have your components.

Just don't want you to take on the task of building it and then find it all too overwhelming and getting stressed out. Not a nice way to ease yourself into the PC gaming master race :)
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Yeah definetly mate
 
Spuddy said:
Are you good with following instructions/being hands-on and the like?

There are plenty of guides available on the internet, including videos on youtube of how to build a PC once you have your components.

Just don't want you to take on the task of building it and then find it all too overwhelming and getting stressed out. Not a nice way to ease yourself into the PC gaming master race :)
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I aint brought the parts yet by the way i dont know what to buy lol
 
i joined to try help, but also to get help for my own builds, so hopefully my suggestion isnt a left field or too much of one, i looked at the sort of kit i would get if i had your budget and this is miles better than the usual entry to the pc world lol which is more like upwards of £500.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,462.54
(includes shipping: £14.70)
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oh an the reason i chose windows 8.1 was simply because windows 7 wasnt listed and chances of better driver support as windows 10 can be limiting, i have all 3 operating systems so this is my own personal experience. and i chose this case because it seemed to be the biggest for the components without spending too much and it could possibly give more options where to put it as towers cannot always work.
 
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My set up uses 3 screens , just be aware when u use 3 screens it takes a more powerful graphics card as ofc it has to display the image to 3 screens as apposed to one. i also currently play bf4 on my 3 screens , my Graphics cards is a GTX 980Ti but im sure a less powerful card could run it fine , maybe not just as much eye candy.
 
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With the spec above, a cheapo case and more realistic psu puts you closer to 980ti territory.

Arma 3 is all about the CPU.
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i dont know what arma is like as it doesnt look appealing or that demanding from videos, but given you can run BF4 on ultra with a gpu from upto £150 i didnt see the point in spending nearly 1/3 of the budget on graphics, not when the specs didnt seem any different, but then this was my personal views and the psu was like the cheapest 850w from a good brand, dont know if 850 is needed, but i assumed overclock in future.


but i do agree though on cheaper tower case and a lower psu from different brand 'more realistic i assume' would be in your favour, but no matter what you will have a killer machine for your entry to the pc world lol


oh and though i forgot the 3 monitor bit, spending more on the hardware is better than multiple displays, you would be looking at like 6-700 for 3 good sized gsync monitors unless you got amd as their freesync monitor options come in a lot less.


tried a different case, better gpu , better psu and 3 monitor setup, hopefully i havent missed anything or misread space.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,472.92
(includes shipping: £23.10)
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If your a arma 3 player (such as myself) you really need an i7 and a k series you can overclock to hell and back. I would suggest a k series you can overclock the hell out of. Arma is all about the cpu not gpu. It also seems to favout nvidia over amd for some strange reason by a small amount, however in arma there is not much difference between a 970 and 980ti (trust me i have had both and a 980 and th really is only a hand full of frames in it) my 980 ti never goes about 45% load in arma its so poorly optimised. The biggest just in arma i got was going from a 4690k to a 4790k i run it at 4.8ghz if overclocking seems a bit daunting speak to ocuk they will probably do a pre overclocked bundle (they might even be listed but i have no interest in buying one overclocked as thats the fun for me)

But invest in either the latest skylake i7 k series or if they are still crazy cash get a 4790k cpu as they are only a tiny bit behind the skylake cpu's. But dont go smashing the cash on gpu and getting a mid end cpu if arma is a big thing for you it will lead to dissapointment. Been there done that.
 
ExoMale said:
i joined to try help, but also to get help for my own builds, so hopefully my suggestion isnt a left field or too much of one, i looked at the sort of kit i would get if i had your budget and this is miles better than the usual entry to the pc world lol which is more like upwards of £500.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,462.54
(includes shipping: £14.70)
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oh an the reason i chose windows 8.1 was simply because windows 7 wasnt listed and chances of better driver support as windows 10 can be limiting, i have all 3 operating systems so this is my own personal experience. and i chose this case because it seemed to be the biggest for the components without spending too much and it could possibly give more options where to put it as towers cannot always work.
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Cheers for taking time out to give me this build mate, really appreciate it gunna go with this
 
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