£1500 gaming build for friend

[ExtremeIC3cream]

Hi guys, my friend has currently asked me to spec him a gaming pc for £1500. It will not be used for much else than Gaming and browsing the web though he might be streaming. He wants to go for a red theme and he has his heart set on the Bitfenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case so that's one thing off the list. He will require Windows 8.1 but he will not need a monitor and the keyboard and mouse will be outside the budget. He also would like one of corsair CPU liquid coolers but he does not want to overclock. Not much point getting watercooling since he won't overclock but I have been trying to convince him he is missing out in a lot of performance. He also hates AMD so no AMD Graphics Cards or Processors. I think that's about it... oh wait I forgot that he also need WiFi so either a card or a USB stick.

Thanks, Justin

 

[ShivP]

Will he not be overclocking full stop? Absolutely no need for water-cooling then, even stock cooler would do fine. Probably a H87 motherboard with a non-K series Intel CPU (i7 4771) if not overclocking. £1500 is a nice amount of money, could pick up a top end graphics card if not slightly lower such as a 780/780Ti. An ASRock Fatal1ty H87 board could do quite nicely. You can get a decent WiFi card for £20-30 I believe, though someone may have to correct me on that.

 

[lee32uk]

GTX 780 build with 256GB SSD

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £379.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5S) £128.99
1 x BitFenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case - Black £119.99
1 x MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £69.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £59.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Cable Bundle - Red £28.45
1 x TP-Link 450Mbps Wireless N Dual Band PCI Express Adapter (TL-WDN4800) £27.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £1,419.36 (includes shipping : £20.10).





GTX 780ti build with 128GB SSD

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 780Ti Gaming Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £559.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x BitFenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case - Black £119.99
1 x MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £69.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £64.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £59.99
1 x TP-Link 450Mbps Wireless N Dual Band PCI Express Adapter (TL-WDN4800) £27.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £1,506.91 (includes shipping : £20.10).

 

[Jumper118]

he needs to learn to not like either amd or nvidia and like a good gpu/cpu instead. he also needs to learn not to choose a really old case and to overclock.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £389.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £163.99
1 x Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5S) £128.99
1 x OcUK Tech Labs Fathom All in One Custom Cooler 240mm £112.97
- 1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
- 1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 240 £55.98
1 x NZXT Phantom 530 Full Tower Gaming Case - Red £104.99
1 x Be Quiet Power Zone 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Fully Modular Power Supply £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £69.95
1 x **B Grade** Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD1001FALS) £44.00
Total : £1,511.32 (includes shipping : £11.25).

 

[Tohrazer]

seems ridiculous to spend so much on a system you're not going to OC! especially if you're going to bother watercooling it, perhaps direct him to this thread where he can see people agreeing with your sentiment regarding the issue! does he understand people that spent somewhat less money will actually have a faster system than he does?

if he's worried about component lifetime, he should know i have an old i3 530 still overclocked to 4.2 Ghz after 3 years of almost 24/7 use, and that's without watercooling, and 2.93 > 4.2 Ghz is quite a hefty overclock compared to OCing one of the new i5/i7's

anyhows:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £379.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C9 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21330908G-2CIR) - Red Light £149.99
1 x BitFenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case - Black £119.99
1 x Corsair RM Series RM 750 '80+ Gold' 750W Power Supply (CP-9020055-UK) £109.99
1 x MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £64.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £59.99
1 x TP-Link 450Mbps Wireless N Dual Band PCI Express Adapter (TL-WDN4800) £27.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
2 x Aerocool Shark Devil Red Edition LED Fan - 140mm £7.99 (£15.98)
Total : £1,484.98 (includes shipping : £20.10).