£1300 Gaming PC

Intex

Intex

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Could I have some suggestions on a system for around £1,300 (inc. VAT).

I don't need OS, monitor, hard drives, keyboard, mouse or accessories. Main use will be gaming with first person shooters, eg Battlefield 4.

In terms of the case, something like the NXZT Phantom mid size.

Pre-built would be good but not essential.



Thanks
 
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Something like

YOUR BASKET
1 x "OcUK Extreme" Intel Core i7 4770K @ 4.6GHz+ Extreme Overclocked Bundle £445.01
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £158.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD316G2133HC11ADC01) £129.95
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £245.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black £116.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 750W Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (0-761345-06223-7) £89.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £83.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
Total : £1,392.97 (includes shipping : £11.75).



oc bundle that has had all OCers tender loving care 16b or fast ram 3gb gfx card ssd and hdd

im still noobish to speccing so im sure someone will spec better but if i dont try i wont get better lol sorry its a little over budget :) you can hit your budget if you take out the ssd


Pre built maybe something like

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-422-OE&groupid=43&catid=2475&subcat=2488 but the 4770k is much better as BF3/4 do utilize hyperthreading
 
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Thanks for the reply.

The above doesn't seem to make sense though. I don't need any hard drives, so those can be removed. The i7 extreme bundle you've linked - when you click on it, it says that bundle is over £709. Also, if you had that bundle, why would you need the extra memory you've highlighted?
 
things like bf4 and such benefit from more ram, its says standard when you click on and then it goes up as you add things in like i did the gigbayte OC board is better and costs 34 pounds more then the 16gb of ram instead of 8 added another 50 more :) but if you dont need the drives you can get it a lot cheaper :) if you want you can go down to 8gb its up to you
 
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Idlemans is very good but if your an over clocker its lottery on the chips of how high you can clock and how hot it will get ,if you buy OC'er bundle you know, its been hand picked delided and has liquid ultra replacing crappy intel paste and guaranteed to run at 4.6 ghz even higher if you have good water cooling , if you not worried about overclocking or warmer temps his is pretty much bang on :)
 
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@Idleman - thanks for the suggestions. I'm speculating that there wouldn't be any issues with using a different case, e.g. NXZT Phantom mid size with your suggestions?

@scotsdragon - thanks again for your input. However, the question of the O/C CPU extreme bundle is still puzzling me. You highlight about that the cost of the extreme bundle would be £445.01, but if I select it from your link it's over £700? Surely if I took the CPU suggested by Idleman and overclock that, it wouldn't be a £150 difference?
 
Yes you could OC your self and maybe even get to 4.6 (not all haswell can do this) the only advantage of the bundle is that you know you are getting 4.6 ghz you will get descent temps as it has been delidded and had premium thermal material applied at the end of the day its upto you to decide. I like idlemans build the gtx780 is a beast of a card I have it myself you should go with that it will serve you well. ( most of the time I buy bundles because of the lottery affect nothing worse than getting a crappy chip which has happened to me before)
 
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That's the one - thanks.

In terms of the CPU, would you recommend going for the extreme bundle and if I get all of the above components from O/C - will they build it all?
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Not really, with that board and cooler, you should be able to get 4.4-4.5Ghz OC.
I would post in customer services and ask them if they can build it for you. But that will take you over budget by quite a bit, especially if you want them to OC it as well.
Cheaper to build it yourself and learn to OC, you will get plenty of help and advice from the guys in here. If you are not to sure about building it, then watch a couple of videos.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...76&first=0&qpvt=newegg+build+tutorial+videos#
 
OK, thanks for the help so far scotsdragon and Idleman.

I'm looking at combining components from both of your suggestions and my shopping basket ends up as:

1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x OC Rev2.0 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N780OC-3GD) £399.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £245.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £158.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black £116.99
1 x Silverstone Strider Gold Evolution 750w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (ST75F-G) £129.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £99.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD316G2133HC11ADC01) £129.95
 
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You kept that bit quiet. :D

Any way, best of luck with the build. Don`t forget to post back and let us know how you get on. ;)
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True :). If it works well for gaming (main reason), then the VM's just need memory for what I use them for.

One more question - I've not touched water-cooling before. Does the water-cooling option I've gone for just attach or does it still need some kind of paste?
 
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