£1k Max system for gaming

benji182 · 4 Sep 2015 at 19:37

Hi guys,

My brother has asked me to help him build a PC for gaming. When he saw mine he has realised that maybe his Playstation isn't quite so awesome after all.

Now I've not been in the loop for a while now so don't really know whether DDR4 and the new intel chips are even worth it on the budget he has.

He told me that he has a 1080p gaming monitor but he might upgrade that at some point but not for a while.

I've quickly had a look but any advice would be great.

So far I have

MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition £280
MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Intel Z97 £105
Intel Core i5 4690K £180
TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB £50

Am I going in the right direction with this?

benji182 · 4 Sep 2015 at 20:53

Thanks for quick response, I'll let him know it is possible on his budget

He already has my old hand me down gaming mouse/keys so just a windows CD on top of that.

benji182 · 7 Sep 2015 at 17:34

Would there be any advantages with getting one of these H100 all in one water cooling kits over these regular air HSFs ?

benji182 · 11 Sep 2015 at 18:37

Excellent guys, thank you

Do games ask for i7's now days? I'd have thought 4 cores would be plenty