£2000 budget (first gaming desktop)

290 Crossfire and a 27" 1440P Monitor :) You are probably looking at around £2120 ish when ocuk add the build price on.


I know you prefer Nvidia, but the AMD gpu's are cracking value for money.

The Powercolor is out of stock atm (As is the Monitor), but I would imagine more stock is on the way. You could ask Customer Services when they are due in.

Also there is a free set of 'AMD' Ram with each gpu at present. You could probably scrap the G.Skill Ram in my spec and use the AMD stuff instead. Failing that you could sell it on.

You could probably get away with a single R9 290 at 1440P for most games. It depends on whether you want to go 'all out' from the off :)


YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus PB278Q 27" Professional LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £479.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £351.98
2 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £305.99 (£611.98)
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.95
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower Enthusiast Case with Window £89.99
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) £82.99
1 x G.Skill TridentX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-2400C10D-8GTX) £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 £57.98
1 x Samsung SE-S208DB/TSBS External Slimline 8x DVD-RW (TV Connect) - Black £21.98
Total : £2,062.03 (includes shipping : £16.85).

 
lee32uk said:
290 Crossfire and a 27" 1440P Monitor :) You are probably looking at around £2120 ish when ocuk add the build price on.


I know you prefer Nvidia, but the AMD gpu's are cracking value for money.

The Powercolor is out of stock atm (As is the Monitor), but I would imagine more stock is on the way. You could ask Customer Services when they are due in.

Also there is a free set of 'AMD' Ram with each gpu at present. You could probably scrap the G.Skill Ram in my spec and use the AMD stuff instead. Failing that you could sell it on.

You could probably get away with a single R9 290 at 1440P for most games. It depends on whether you want to go 'all out' from the off :)


YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus PB278Q 27" Professional LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £479.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £351.98
2 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £305.99 (£611.98)
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.95
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower Enthusiast Case with Window £89.99
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) £82.99
1 x G.Skill TridentX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-2400C10D-8GTX) £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 £57.98
1 x Samsung SE-S208DB/TSBS External Slimline 8x DVD-RW (TV Connect) - Black £21.98
Total : £2,062.03 (includes shipping : £16.85).

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He already has a 1440p monitor
 
stulid said:
Whats with the ":D" ?
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No idea tbh, just an emotion that I've overused lol

Either way Lee, that spec looks beast - never even knew the AMD cards were coming with that free RAM :o

EDIT: Yeah, it's referring to the 280 you said :)
 
sorry about the link,
http://gyazo.com/18a3be3afa6602fae87e8847a7ebdabe

can anyone show me how to spec builds where its like the persons basket then all the components etc like above, i have no idea how to do it and was looking how to do it for around 5 minutes then gave up and gyazo' it.

please point out any thing that wrong because first time specing a build.

at the high end of 2.2

now if the 290x xfire would be better for me than 2x780ti then please say, but by better i mean performance wise not price, i dont mind waiting another week for payday to get better performance out of something that im going to be using for years if you get what i mean?
 
jamster0212 said:
sorry about the link,
http://gyazo.com/18a3be3afa6602fae87e8847a7ebdabe

can anyone show me how to spec builds where its like the persons basket then all the components etc like above, i have no idea how to do it and was looking how to do it for around 5 minutes then gave up and gyazo' it.

please point out any thing that wrong because first time specing a build.

at the high end of 2.2

now if the 290x xfire would be better for me than 2x780ti then please say, but by better i mean performance wise not price, i dont mind waiting another week for payday to get better performance out of something that im going to be using for years if you get what i mean?
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Use this to get the shopping basket plugin:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ocuk-shopping-cart-viewer/empfloiadabicdlgahhamannadefhehj


Other browsers: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18371076&highlight=browser
 
kind of been thinking, spending 2k on my first pc would be abit over kill so i'm thinking of going with a build like this, opinions?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £331.98
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE AMD 8GB 2400MHz Memory Kit £299.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 760T Windowed Full Tower Gaming Case - White (CC-9011045-WW) £152.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £102.98
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £74.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £57.98
Total : £1,108.91 (includes shipping : ).

 
Shivy011 said:
H100i may have compatibility issues with Windows 8.1 atm still, so better to go for an Antec 1250 or a Corsair H105 instead

Spend a few bob more and get this PSU, should hold you out for future crossfire

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-043-SS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2466

Otherwise looks great! Unless you wanted to spend a little less on the SSD and get an MX100 256GB
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can you explain to me what it means on psu when its says gold bronze silver/platinum mate?

i assume its to do with warranity?
 
Nah, that's the efficiency rating mate. You want 80 Plus minimum (80% + efficiency), the Seasonic has a fairly low one compared to other PSUs but it is considerably cheaper and the internals are really really really rock solid
 
Shivy011 said:
Nah, that's the efficiency rating mate. You want 80 Plus minimum (80% + efficiency), the Seasonic has a fairly low one compared to other PSUs but it is considerably cheaper and the internals are really really really rock solid
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right, so is the bronze/gold etc just a branding scheme? because if it says 80+ then why put gold silver etc?

also could you link me to the mx100 and what would the difference be from the samsung? slower write speeds / reads?
 
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