£1300 Gaming PC

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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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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?
 
@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?
 
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
 
Idleman said:
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?
 
Also, I've just checked and it does support VT-X and VT-D - as I expected it would.

Refer to this link and look under the 'Advanced Technologies' section.
 
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OK, thanks.

VT-X is all I need. I won't be using any VM's which will require specific I/O access to more specialised hardware within the VM.

As long as it has VT-X (which it does) - the general access to base hardware and the performance VT-X will provide will be fine.

Thanks for your help.
 
I've just looked at the Corsair case. It says on their website:

And, you can mount up to six 120mm or five 140mm fans, with 280mm top radiator support and room for a 360mm radiator on the front panel.

Then on the same website where the Hydro H100i cooling system is shown, it says:

Have a PC case that supports a top-mounted 240mm radiator?


I'm speculating that there wouldn't be any issues mounting the H100i in the case if there's 40mm difference. I'm asking because I don't really know what the fixings look like and never installed one before.
 
@lee32uk - thanks. All looks good.

OK, so now I've received everything on my original list apart from the graphics card and an SSD card (both due tomorrow):

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

Now, the question is - where to start!
 
Demo said:
I tend to pop the PSU in and run the cables. I find it easier to do that with an empty case. Then I assemble the CPU and cooler onto the mobo and pop that in and then the rest follows logically.

Never installed a rad before so I can't comment on whether that goes in first or as a "unit" with the mobo.

Looking at building a very similar system for my son so I'd be interested to see how it works out for you.

Enjoy your kit.

Dom
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Thanks and I'll report back and maybe take a few pics.
 
darwin said:
Just did a build myself only last week with similar components to yours including the H100i except my case was the smaller Obsidian 350D. I watched 2 different youtube videos first illustrating how to install the H100i and found that very useful. Fitting the rad turned out to be very easy, although you need to decide which end of the case you want to have the tubing (where it connects to the rad). I made the mistake of fitting the PSU after the H100i was installed and found it blocked access to the CPU power connector if trying to route the power cable from the back of the case. Another tip is to put your case fans under control of the H100i - until I did this, mine would never increase rpm regardless of case temps.
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Thanks for that. Which YouTube video did you look at? I've seen a couple which look 'OK'.

Also, how do you put the case fans under control of the H100i - I thought there was only a connector for the H100i fans?
 
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