£1000 Gaming PC

[Waltagon]

Hi guys/girls.

First time poster who was recommended OCUK by friends. I am planning my first PC build (coming back to PCs after getting sick of console gaming). Looking to spend £1000ish and do not need OS, optical drive, peripherals or monitor. Looking to include Intel CPU, R9 GPU and an SSD.

Looking for an understated look to the system (prefer Corsair cases) and just want to get best bang for the buck really.

Advice on parts would be gratefully appreciated

 

[Rhoxy]

I use this. It's quite big compared to other cards but it's handled anything I've thrown at it on the highest settings. With your budget you could even possibly stretch to the 290X but I think this is far more than good enough.

If you do decide to go for it, make sure it will fit in your case. However, the MSI has good reviews too but haven't personally had it.

As for a case, are there any specifics you're looking at? Such as windowed?


YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-03-40G) £319.99
Total : £329.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[dacads]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-03-40G) £319.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.98
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £79.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £76.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Windowed Case - Black (CC-9011017-WW) £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
Total : £1,001.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[lee32uk]

The new Z97 Motherboards are due out around the 11th of this Month, and also the Haswell refresh cpu's will follow, so I would hang fire for a couple of weeks.

So as a rough guide, something like this but with a Z97 board and Haswell refresh cpu once they are released.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-03-40G) £319.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.98
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW) £105.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £67.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £1,037.96 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 

[Waltagon]

As for a case, are there any specifics you're looking at? Such as windowed?

I am not too fussed about it being windowed. Would maybe annoy me to much if the colours of the innards didn't match lol.

As for the Z97 and haswell refresh....will it be worth waiting to include in the build or just to wait for the possible price drop of current versions i.e. Will the new versions be much better?

Thank you for your input

 

[Soundwave61]

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