£1100 build including monitor

jonessa

jonessa

jonessa

Associate
Joined
16 Nov 2014
Posts
531
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
 
Last edited:
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
 
Last edited:
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)
​


​
Click to expand...


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)
​


​
Click to expand...

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
Click to expand...

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)
​


​
Click to expand...

You've specced a DDR4 mobo with DDR3 RAM? Is this even compatible?
 
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.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom