£500 system?

IronWarrior · 2 Oct 2014 at 20:29

I been out of the loop for a long time when it comes to the latest stuff, but since I can now afford a new PC, still deciding if I should buy new or second hand.

Could someone please give me some ideas for a PC for gaming (BF4/Planetside 2 sort of games) at £500 or less please, cheaper the better though.

I don't need the following: GPU, SSD, HDD and a Case (maybe, feel free to add it)

It's going to be used for gaming, multi-monitor x3 (Eyefinity but might switch to the green team since I like the idea of shadowplay) I wouldn't mind the extra horse power of a i7 (I might start to encode videos).

Oh, more SATA ports the better since I can have over 10 HDD's.

Much appreciated for the help.

William-Mathew · 2 Oct 2014 at 20:33

Do you need an OS? Also what GPU are you running?

RJC · 2 Oct 2014 at 20:33

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £347.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £65.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £453.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Check your case dimensions for the cooler.

With Case:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £347.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £65.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £493.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Edit: I think you might be pushed to find a motherboard which can take more than 10 without using a add on card!

IronWarrior · 2 Oct 2014 at 20:46

William-Mathew said:
Do you need an OS? Also what GPU are you running?

Oh my bad, should had said that. Windows 7 but maybe Windows 10 one day.

GPU wise, am running a 6950 2GB (Rev 1, OC'ed & Unlocked to 6970) so far, am running it with a Q6600, so am CPU bounded a lot. Once I got the core PC sorted, can always upgrade to a new GPU later.

RJC said:
Edit: I think you might be pushed to find a motherboard which can take more than 10 without using a add on card!

Thanks for that RJC, will have a closer look at them parts.

Yeah, currently am using two add on cards, a old 8/10 port PCI-X and a 2 port PCI-E x1 card.

Could do with a PSU.

RJC · 2 Oct 2014 at 21:02

Ha ha

I missed the PSU bit

Slight change:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £258.58
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £67.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £65.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £472.09 (includes shipping : £8.00).

IronWarrior · 2 Oct 2014 at 23:18

Cheers, I like what I see so far. Thanks.

IronWarrior · 3 Oct 2014 at 17:21

So I been seeing these SuperFlower PSU's about, is that a good make these days? Never heard of them of before.