£1100 build including monitor

jonessa

jonessa

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Hi folks,
looking to build a mid/high end gaming rig for around £1k including a monitor.
Read loads on the I5 vs I7 debate on gaming and think the 4690K + 970 will meet my needs well.

Any thoughts or improvements you could offer on this build?

1 BU-006-GI Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£12 Saving** £266.98 £266.98
1 CA-087-BX BitFenix Ghost Silent Tower Case - Black £77.95 £77.95
1 MY-204-KS Kingston HyperX Savage Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/16) £73.99 £73.99
1 CA-178-BX BitFenix Fury 750W Gold Modular Power Supply - Alchemy Cables (BFP-FUR-750G-KSXK-RP) £99.95 £99.95
1 GX-259-MS MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £275.99 £275.99
1 MO-078-BQ BenQ RL2455HM 24" 1920x1080 TN Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red £139.99 £139.99
1 HD-192-SA Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU) £129.95 £129.95
1 HD-376-WD Western Digital Caviar Blue 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD30EZRZ) £77.99 £77.99
£1142.79
 
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hey why not eh!!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £989.76
(includes shipping: £15.90)
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why the switch to the Radeon - just out of interest?

Is a 550w PSU going to give me enough scope to run cards in SLI?

Cheers
 
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550w no for sli unless its cheap low powered cards and the change to AMD was because i chose the cheapest monitor thats over 22" which has freesync and from what i read thats good to have, where as this is the cheapest G-sync(also good to have)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £301.09
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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my monitor has neither so not really something thats a bother to me, but when i specced a freesync gpu with a g-sync monitor it was basically implied that was stupid.

plus the card is cheaper than the gtx 970
 
jonessa said:
Hi folks,
looking to build a mid/high end gaming rig for around £1k including a monitor.
Read loads on the I5 vs I7 debate on gaming and think the 4690K + 970 will meet my needs well.

Any thoughts or improvements you could offer on this build?

1 BU-006-GI Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£12 Saving** £266.98 £266.98
1 CA-087-BX BitFenix Ghost Silent Tower Case - Black £77.95 £77.95
1 MY-204-KS Kingston HyperX Savage Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/16) £73.99 £73.99
1 CA-178-BX BitFenix Fury 750W Gold Modular Power Supply - Alchemy Cables (BFP-FUR-750G-KSXK-RP) £99.95 £99.95
1 GX-259-MS MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £275.99 £275.99
1 MO-078-BQ BenQ RL2455HM 24" 1920x1080 TN Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red £139.99 £139.99
1 HD-192-SA Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU) £129.95 £129.95
1 HD-376-WD Western Digital Caviar Blue 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD30EZRZ) £77.99 £77.99
£1142.79
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I would go with a better power supply. The Bitfenix Fury is nothing special.

Any of these are better.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £289.07
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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lee32uk said:
The GTX 970 is a faster card though, hence the price difference. You would need an R9 390 for an equivalent AMD card.
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i know gtx 970 is faster, but its also nearly £200 quid extra and while he specced a computer over £1100, i did a mock up of one for the £1k which was highlighted in OPs opening bit that included monitor ;)
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,128.25
(includes shipping: £26.34)
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lee32uk said:
I would go with a better power supply. The Bitfenix Fury is nothing special.

Any of these are better.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £289.07
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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Thanks for this - i haven't done much research on PSU's but will want the option to SLI where possible.
 
FixupSellon said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,128.25
(includes shipping: £26.34)
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Is the MSI board better then?

Cheers
 
FixupSellon said:
550w no for sli unless its cheap low powered cards and the change to AMD was because i chose the cheapest monitor thats over 22" which has freesync and from what i read thats good to have, where as this is the cheapest G-sync(also good to have)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £301.09
(includes shipping: £11.10)
​


​

my monitor has neither so not really something thats a bother to me, but when i specced a freesync gpu with a g-sync monitor it was basically implied that was stupid.

plus the card is cheaper than the gtx 970
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Thanks for this - how much "real world" benefit does a G-Sync/freesync monitor have over a screen without?

As a casual gamer, is spending the extra £170 on A G-Sync monitor going to be worthwhile? (I haven't build a gaming rig in a long time!)
 
FixupSellon said:
hey why not eh!!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £989.76
(includes shipping: £15.90)
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You've specced a DDR4 mobo with DDR3 RAM? Is this even compatible?
 
they are both msi boards, just the latter has the same sort of theme as the graphics card and is the 1150 socket, there probably not much in it.

and as the the ddr3 ram, i mustve mistaken the board for one that supports both ddr3 and ddr4 :rolleyes: lol
 
jonessa said:
Thanks for this - how much "real world" benefit does a G-Sync/freesync monitor have over a screen without?

As a casual gamer, is spending the extra £170 on A G-Sync monitor going to be worthwhile? (I haven't build a gaming rig in a long time!)
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you know i cant actually answer this, whether or not the gtx 750(my card) has g-sync my monitor is a BenQ GL2250 which has its own thing called senseye and is a multimedia screen rather than gaming(though 2ms response time is better than a lot)..

i think the freesync/g-sync will depend on the game as some games might have that option in the menu, i suppose it really comes down to if you care?

i think from specs the gtx 780 is better than the R9 380 and has more ram, but for your budget you got so many options.
 
FixupSellon said:
i know gtx 970 is faster, but its also nearly £200 quid extra and while he specced a computer over £1100, i did a mock up of one for the £1k which was highlighted in OPs opening bit that included monitor ;)
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You can get a GTX 970 for £249.95 on here. Not sure what you are looking at.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,120.76
(includes shipping: £15.90)
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Thanks for all the advice chaps.

Still undecided on whether G-Sync is worthwhile. I'm hoping that black Friday will yield some good discounts for at least some of these components - i guess I can chop and change based on the offers available.
 
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