£1500-£1800 gaming pc

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Touie

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Hi all,
I'm looking at getting my first gaming pc and would appreciate any advice you could give me with a £1500-£1800 spend, I've got very minimal experience/knowledge in the building of pcs so I'm unsure whether to attempt building it myself or go for a pre-built system.
I'll be needing everything apart from speakers. If theres anything I haven't specified let me know.

Thanks in advance.
 
Yes please Stulid. As for the case, I'm in work at the moment so will look later but I'd be happy with any suggestions. I'd like to be able to upgrade in future, and something that's not too noisey as i works shifts. If it looks good that's a bonus. Will need a headset too.
 
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Thanks reaper. I'm happy to wait for devils canyon, so would It be wise to include the preorder in the basket, get everything delivered and just wait on the cpu? Like I said my experience is minimal so will be going with a suggested spec in the next day or 2 hopefully. Thanks again
 
Thanks for all the replies guys, will study all of them properly once I'm home from work. So much choice, now I just need someone to tell me which one to get haha.
 
Thanks again everyone for all replies, I've looked at everything and thought I'd see if using every spec given I could come up with a compromise, that's if its even compatible haha.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290X Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x AOC G2460PQU 24" Widescreen 144Hz 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Gunmetal £199.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX24C11BRK2/16-OC) £119.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £107.99
1 x NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - Black £94.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Corsair Raptor K30 Gaming Keyboard (CH-9000043-UK) £37.99
1 x Corsair Raptor M45 Gaming Mouse (CH-9000052-EU) £37.99
1 x Corsair AF120 Performance Series Low Noise High Airflow - Dual Pack (CO-9050004-WW) £22.00
1 x Corsair SP120 Performance Series High Pressure - Dual Pack (CO-9050008-WW) £22.00
1 x Corsair AF120 Performance Series Low Noise High Airflow - Single Pack (CO-9050003-WW) £11.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 24pin ATX extension 30cm - Red £8.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 6+2-Pin PCIe Extension 45cm - sleeved red/black £5.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 8pin EPS extension 45cm - Red £5.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Internal USB Extension 30cm - sleeved red/black £4.98
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Internal Audio Extension Adaptor 30cm - Red £4.49
Total : £1,756.92 (includes shipping : £22.20).




Still switching things in and out at the moment but wondering if this set-up is ok? Will I maybe have the option to do a decent upgrade in future? Xfire maybe? I will also need to get something to connect to wifi? Again any advice is appreciated.
 
Thanks Doom & Stulid I've gone with what has been suggested. I have a ps4 and play games like bf4, watchdogs etc will this setup be ok for these and future releases?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Radeon R9 290 DirectCU II OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Red £329.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x AOC G2460PQU 24" Widescreen 144Hz 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Gunmetal £199.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £107.99
1 x NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - Black £94.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX24C11BRK2/8-OC) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Corsair Raptor K30 Gaming Keyboard (CH-9000043-UK) £37.99
1 x Corsair Raptor M45 Gaming Mouse (CH-9000052-EU) £37.99
1 x Corsair SP120 Performance Series High Pressure - Dual Pack (CO-9050008-WW) £22.00
1 x Corsair AF120 Performance Series Low Noise High Airflow - Dual Pack (CO-9050004-WW) £22.00
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Cable Bundle - Red £21.95
1 x Corsair AF120 Performance Series Low Noise High Airflow - Single Pack (CO-9050003-WW) £11.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Internal USB Extension 30cm - sleeved red/black £4.98
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Internal Audio Extension Adaptor 30cm - Red £4.49
Total : £1,683.90 (includes shipping : £22.20).



Going to put the order in tomorrow i think but...with still a little money left over, is there anything else you would change that would make a noticeable difference? And will this be easy enough for a novice like me to put together? Sorry for all the questions :eek:
 
Ordered it last night, though I added an optical drive not realising the case doesn't have a space for one, oops :rolleyes: I'm guessing I will have to download the OS onto USB? If so is that just from the Microsoft website? What about games too? Will this mean everything will have to be bought through steam? Thanks again for all the help.
 
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Will go with what you said then stulid, I'd only realised from watching a tutorial build with the same case (looks quite daunting, specially with all the fans)

Thanks again guys
 
Ok, sorry to drag this thread back up but all my components arrived today apart from the cpu obviously. I've been watching numerous tutorials and it feels more doable, but can't figure out the fan placement (fans all over the place haha.) Any advice on this would be great. Also will I have to buy and use thermal paste for the h105 cpu cooler? Thanks again!
 
Ah ok, just I seen someone applying paste on one of the tutorials using the h105 so wasn't sure. Yeah the 2 sp120s are for the h105, I then have 3 af120s, 1 for the exhaust at the back I'm guessing and just put the other 2 in any of the 4 slots left available keeping the standard fan? I actually had to order 2 af120 dual packs so could replace all fans if thats possible? thanks
 
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