Introducing my mate to PC gaming

[WhiteCobra]

Hello all

My mate has decided that he's got £600-700 for me to get him set up with a gaming capable pc. He currently games on a ps4 with some horrible cheap 720p hdtv.

So I've come up with the following:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Aerocool Aero 500 Midi-Tower Case - Black= £27.95
• 1 x MARS Gaming Hades MKHA0 Gaming Keyboard - UK Layout= £7.99
• 1 x Cougar 250M Optical Gaming Mouse - Black= £20.99
• 1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020048-UK)= £49.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £194.99
• 1 x Asus H81-PLUS Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard= £52.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01)= £25.99
• 1 x WD Black 500GB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD5003AZEX) HDD= £54.95
• 1 x Acer KA240HQ 23.6" 1920x1080 TN 1ms Widescreen LED Monitor - Black (UM.UX6EE.B09)= £89.99
• 1 x XFX Radeon R9 380 "DD Dual Fan" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-380P-4DF5) - OEM= £169.99

Total: £709.92
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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Grateful for your thoughts/suggestions. I'm hoping the above will do for him now and give him the availability maybe in a year or two to slap in a better GPU.

Thanks!

 

[deano-5]

You can't overclock on that motherboard.
Check this site for cpu/motherboard deals

 

[stulid]

I wouldnt bother combining a Kseries cpu with that lower tier board.

The PSU is low quality.

Heres something to consider,

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x XFX Radeon R9 380 "DD Dual Fan" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-380P-4DF5) - OEM= £169.99
• 1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 Case & Super Flower 450W FX 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply Bundle= £48.95
• 1 x Asus H110M-K Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £46.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £155.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FBK2/8)= £28.99
• 1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2= £44.99
• 1 x Alpenföhn 120mm Föhn PWM Fan - Transparent= £3.95
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £37.99
• 1 x AOC G2460VQ6 24" 1920x1080 TN FREESYNC 1ms Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red= £119.99
• 1 x MARS Gaming MCP0 Gaming Keyboard & Mouse - UK Layout= £14.99

Total: £686.92
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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Its £706 with this higher clocked CPU - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...ocket-lga1151-processor-retail-cp-586-in.html

There will be new cards from AMD and Nvidia for this sort of price range released.

 

[Stealthploit]

get a good board and psu for feuture upgrades