£1000 gaming build - is this up to scratch?

md99 · 29 Jun 2016 at 22:35

I'm really pushing my budget with this but I want to build a PC that won't require an upgrade for a good few years. It's purely for gaming, I want to run every high-end game that is available now and for the next two or even three years at maximum settings. Monitor is 1920 x 1200 and I'm sorted for a psu and ssd's.

Is there anything here where I can do better, maybe for a few quid less? No big deal if not, I reckon this is a pretty solid build.

md99 · 29 Jun 2016 at 23:21

stulid said:
You get £32 cashback - https://toptechcashback.com/gb/en/pages/cpumb/qualifying

Wow, wasn't aware of that. Thanks a million.

LewisRaz said:
If its purely for gaming you save a few quid on an i5 instead

Be a downgrade though, wouldn't it?

md99 · 30 Jun 2016 at 07:37

Thanks for the suggestions all. Basically I don't want to budge in terms of downgrading on the original build.

It should have no problem running pretty much anything at max settings at the moment, yes/no?

md99 · 2 Jul 2016 at 17:26

So the i7 *could* be wasted on me then?

I think I'll still go with it though, I have no intention of upgrading for at least five or so years so I need all the performance I can get.

md99 · 12 Jul 2016 at 10:16

I've decided to hell with it. Can't really afford it and even if certain aspects are considered overkill (I certainly don't think so) I'll pull the trigger on it this weekend. Might have to change the 1070 model as stock is low but no biggie.

Should be quite an eye-opener after the past eight years with a 5850, core 2 duo and 4gb of ddr2 ram! Am probably going to spend the next week reinstalling older games that I couldn't max out instead of playing up to date titles like Doom