New PC Build - £800-1000

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Hey, as title says I'm planning a new PC build for around the £800-900 mark and was wondering if anyone knew of any good places with decent prices (sorry overclockers, bit pricy) :p

Was looking to get either an AMD FX series processor or intel i5/i7 depending on price.

corsair hydro series h80/h100 looked pretty good

8Gb of DDR3 Ram - or DDR4 with intel processor

ATX full sized tower

have found a 250Gb SSD drive for the OS and 4TB SATA drive for storage and already have them so that's fine + blu-ray/DVD drives

Radeon R9 390 8Gb (found one for £180) so that's "almost" in the bag.

800-1000W power supply, also found one for £70 so that's also almost in the bag.

was looking at the asus or msi mobo's just not sure which one yet.

OH! and corsair AF120mm fans for intake and exhaust fans. the SP's looked good but not sure yet.

Didn't want to write a new post though other threads don't quite match what I'm after, I need it for a mix of gaming/rendering video + photo editing.

might be overclocking a bit too.. not sure :)
 
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Hi and welcome to the forums :)

No-one will give you links to or suggestions for competitors as that isn't allowed here I'm afraid

If you can afford it go Intel and i5.

The GPU you've suggested is a good one

You won't need anywhere near a 1000w PSU, and especially not one that costs only £70. The spec you're thinking of could be powered quite happily by a quality 550w unit. A decent PSU is like insurance for your PC - a cheap unit can take out other components if it fails

I've always like Gigabyte motherboards - good features and UK RMA if anything goes wrong

The AF series are designed more for case use so you're fine with those. The SP series are high pressure fans usually used in conjunction with radiators / liquid coolers
 
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Hi and welcome to the forums :)

No-one will give you links to or suggestions for competitors as that isn't allowed here I'm afraid

If you can afford it go Intel and i5.

The GPU you've suggested is a good one

You won't need anywhere near a 1000w PSU, and especially not one that costs only £70. The spec you're thinking of could be powered quite happily by a quality 550w unit. A decent PSU is like insurance for your PC - a cheap unit can take out other components if it fails

I've always like Gigabyte motherboards - good features and UK RMA if anything goes wrong

The AF series are designed more for case use so you're fine with those. The SP series are high pressure fans usually used in conjunction with radiators / liquid coolers
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Ah no worries, seen links in other threads so was unsure as to whether it was or wasn't allowed. Sorry!

the one I found at £70 or so is an 800W 80Plus certified Corsair GS Series power supply I figured that'd atleast be half-decent and allow for future upgrades.

Agreed in terms of gigabyte boards it's what I've used for years but fancied a change up
 
The GS is made by CWT, an average OEM. Why spend on wattage you don't need when you could get either of these? Much better quality, modular and plenty of juice for a similar price?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £310.62
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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With regard to competitors: It's not that we can never link any other company, but it's only if they don't directly compete with OcUK - eg we can post links to items OcUK don't sell or point people to Amazon or eBay for second hand gear

What makes you think you need an 1000W PSU? Even with the horrendously-power-hungry AMD octa-cores and two R9 390 GPU's in Crossfire, you'd only pull 600-650W, and I doubt you'll go for that chip anyway for gaming (there are better i5 options for the same money). With a not-stupid-inefficient i5 you'd be well within a single 650W even with Crossfire (which you haven't specifically mentioned).

99% of people who talk about being "ready for future upgrades" never actually upgrade anything that needs those preperations. Unless you have a specific plan to do so in the next 12 months, AND specific games that you know you really need crossfire 390's, don't bother. Another R9 390 would cost you at least another £180, and frankly would be a complete waste: if you want to spend £360 on GPU's in the next 6 months, wait until you have the cash and get a single higher power card instead.

Either way, buying an 800-1000W PSU now for the chance you'll spend £180 on CrossFire for a really-not-that-great performance increase, is a double waste of money
 
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Audigex said:
What makes you think you need an 1000W PSU? Even with the horrendously-power-hungry AMD octa-cores and two R9 390 GPU's in Crossfire, you'd only pull 600-650W, and I doubt you'll go for that chip anyway for gaming (there are better i5 options for the same money). With a not-stupid-inefficient i5 you'd be well within a single 650W even with Crossfire (which you haven't specifically mentioned).

99% of people who talk about being "ready for future upgrades" never actually upgrade anything that needs those preperations. Unless you have a specific plan to do so in the next 12 months, AND specific games that you know you really need crossfire 390's, don't bother. Another R9 390 would cost you at least another £180, and frankly would be a complete waste: if you want to spend £360 on GPU's in the next 6 months, wait until you have the cash and get a single higher power card instead.
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The GPU I plan on grabbing is the radeon R9 390 8Gb model + AMD FX 9590 processor as intel is too pricy, would like to come in at just £800 or so and you know how beefy that processor is, power hungry!

plan on adding another GPU mid-way through this year too so would like to save the hassle of swapping out a full Power supply + cabling by just popping one in that has the needed power for later.

unlike others that don't upgrade I do, just building a new rig as my old one died out on me, it's specs were > 700W PSU, AMD FX 8120, HIS radeon HD 6950 turbo 4Gb model, 8Gb DDR3 RAM at 1600mhz and the usual drives/mobo etcetc.

I also understand that with AMD I'd not reap the benefits of new DDR4 RAM but unless I can find a decent mobo+intel i7+ram/cooling bundle for £600 or so I won't be able to afford the graphics card and extra bits and pieces I'd like.
 
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