New Build - £800 Budget

Quick Mustard · 7 May 2016 at 13:54

Hi guys,

My friend is after a new build and I figured you guys have helped me in the past so I hope you can help me now!

He has a monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, Windows 10 and an SSD.

He needs:

Case
Motherboard
GPU
CPU
RAM
Cooling
Fans
HDD

stulid · 7 May 2016 at 14:20

For gaming?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400 Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £52.99
1 x Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£10 Saving**= £280.98
1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FBK2/8)= £28.99
1 x XFX XT Series 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £42.95
1 x Corsair Force LE 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (CSSD-F240GBLEB)= £49.99
1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £37.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm= £19.99

Total: £527.08
(includes shipping: £13.20)

Leaving £300ish for a card, GTX1070 maybe which is the beginning of June.

Quick Mustard · 8 May 2016 at 01:53

Crap, yea.
Should have said!
Its soly for gaming.

Quick Mustard · 28 May 2016 at 13:19

Hi again
So, I figured I'd bump this instead of making another thread considering its for the same person.

So, my friend has £850 for a new build, of which he needs the following:

CPU (preferably Intel)
CPU Heatsink
Motherboard
SSD
HDD
PSU
RAM

He plans on buying a 1070 when they're released for the GPU and will be picking a case out for himself as well as already owning Windows 10.

He wants it to be able to run the majority of games at decent levels as well as being some what future proof for a while.

The specs that fellow member stulid put seem really good, but given its been a few weeks is there anything better I could get him for the prices?

Planning on ordering most of it this week and then buying the GPU when its out.

Thanks again for your help guys, I really value the information you guys give and have helped me massively in the past.

stulid · 28 May 2016 at 13:28

£850 for just those parts or with a 1070?

Quick Mustard · 28 May 2016 at 15:07

stulid said:
£850 for just those parts or with a 1070?

£850 including the 1070. (Of which we want to order from Overclockers as well, but we're not sure what the final price will be.)

I imagine its a bit of an ask, so he knows it wont be extremely powerful, but powerful enough to run say, Doom at 60fps and the new Total Warhammer game at decent settings.

stulid · 28 May 2016 at 15:20

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£10 Saving**= £280.98
1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £37.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B30= £65.99
1 x Super Flower Leadex GOLD 550W Fully Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply - Black= £64.99
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= £44.99

Total: £521.63
(includes shipping: £11.70)

I dont know how much a 1070 will be but I hope theres enough money left.

jigger · 28 May 2016 at 15:35

It would probably be best to sit tight until the 1070 is launched. I think you would have to shop around to have any chance of building this system with a 1070 for £850. That said depending on the monitors resolution the 1070 you might not need a 1070.

Quick Mustard · 28 May 2016 at 15:46

stulid said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£10 Saving**= £280.98

1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £37.99

1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B30= £65.99

1 x Super Flower Leadex GOLD 550W Fully Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply - Black= £64.99

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= £44.99

Total: £521.63
(includes shipping: £11.70)

I dont know how much a 1070 will be but I hope theres enough money left.

Thank you, will take a look.

jigger said:
It would probably be best to sit tight until the 1070 is launched. I think you would have to shop around to have any chance of building this system with a 1070 for £850. That said depending on the monitors resolution the 1070 you might not need a 1070.

His monitor is only 1080p, no higher, but he wants to future proof himself for a few years, and now he's seen just how good the 1070 and 1080's are, he wants one. He has said his budget can be flexible to a degree if needed, so I'll see what he says.

Thank you both for your input tho, much appreciated.

jigger · 28 May 2016 at 15:51

It's probably worth mentioning that the Pascal cards still have the DX12 hardware level compatibility question hanging over them.

Quick Mustard · 28 May 2016 at 16:04

jigger said:
It's probably worth mentioning that the Pascal cards still have the DX12 hardware level compatibility question hanging over them.

Ah, so you mean its possible the 1070 wont be DX12 compatible?

jigger · 28 May 2016 at 16:22

Yes it's still very unclear how much DX12 compatibility Pascal offers.