£1k gaming PC for a new PC gamer

[CoolJoe]

Hi,

I have been asked to help someone with a gaming PC build. He wants to spend £1k, but doesn't know much about gaming computers himself. The build is a complete new build which will need keyboard / mouse, although he has a 4k TV which he wants to use with it so no monitor needed.

Now it's been a while since I looked into this properly, so would like to see what you guys come up with.

It will need to have at least a 240GB SSD, along with 1 or 2TB storage. Case is not such important, but something half decent will do.

He likes playing games such as "Total War: Warhammer", which the required specs for "Ultra" are as follows:

PC 60fps+ Specifications:

[Expected 60 FPS+ on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Ultra”]

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
Hard Drive: 35 GB
Video Card: (DirectX 11) AMD Fury X or Nvidia GTX 980 @1080P

Obviously will buy via Overclockers.

Thanks guys.

 

[stulid]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£10 Saving**= £304.98
• 1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black= £14.99
• 1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2= £49.99
• 1 x OcUK Cobra Advanced Gaming box set - Red= £39.95
• 1 x NZXT Source 340 Midi-Tower Case- Black Window= £52.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TDKED416G3000HC16AD= £59.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.99
• 1 x Super Flower Leadex GOLD 550W Fully Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply - Black= £67.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £37.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro+ OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £249.95

Total: £968.81
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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£24 cashback - https://toptechcashback.com/gb/en/pages/cpumb/qualifying

 

[Poneros]

Imo OCing ability for someone that's hardware-clueless is a waste of money. Cut it down and include an i7 6700 instead. Also, there's cheaper windows key to be had, I would advise against paying full price.

 

[CoolJoe]

Imo OCing ability for someone that's hardware-clueless is a waste of money. Cut it down and include an i7 6700 instead. Also, there's cheaper windows key to be had, I would advise against paying full price.

I have plenty of codes from old PC's I can use. Overclocking wouldn't be needed.

 

[CoolJoe]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£10 Saving**= £304.98
• 1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black= £14.99
• 1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2= £49.99
• 1 x OcUK Cobra Advanced Gaming box set - Red= £39.95
• 1 x NZXT Source 340 Midi-Tower Case- Black Window= £52.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TDKED416G3000HC16AD= £59.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.99
• 1 x Super Flower Leadex GOLD 550W Fully Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply - Black= £67.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £37.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro+ OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £249.95

Total: £968.81
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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£24 cashback - https://toptechcashback.com/gb/en/pages/cpumb/qualifying

Nice, thank you. I can do without Windows 10 as cheap Win7 keys are around and we will be ordering before end of July. So may swap this for another HDD.

i7 might be preferred, but if that i5 is for a good price it would be good.