£600 build

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My friend needs a new PC everything really apart from a CD Drive, case, operating system and mass storage, a smallish SSD would be good for boot up / game installs.

Will be entirely for his gaming, music and adult entertainment I am assuming.

I'd say you'd be allowed to go £50 over budget, £100 would be pushing it but I will show him his options on what he can get for the price!
 
 
Fire_fly said:
What case does he have / what size motherboard will it fit?

Are both drives SATA?
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He has an Antec 300, I also have the same case but it's easy enough to take the hard drive bays out to make space for a graphics card. He didn't ask for a new case or say he wanted to keep the current one, but he did say he had £600 to spend, so trying to keep it cheap and cheerful for him.
I am gonna give him my 3 Antec blue fans from my case has I've just purchased 5 SP140s, cant remember how many if any he has!
And yea all drives are SATA.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £99.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (TXD38G2400HC10QDC01) £59.99
1 x Akasa Venom 550w Modular '80 Plus' Power Supply £53.99
Total : £649.85 (includes shipping : £10.00).



7870 LE (with a little OCing) is comparable to the 7950.

2400mhz RAM, just to save a little more money. :)

Modular PSU. :)

Really a cooler would be good too (though would be nearer £700):

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 90 Day Guarantee £35.99
Total : £45.89 (includes shipping : £8.25).

 
+1 for Doom's build, you won't do much better for the same price. Although I would spend an extra £7 and get the next motherboard up.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-437-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2574

Are the fans you are giving him Tri Cools that run off a Molex with a manual switch to adjust the speed?

If so I would consider getting him to spend an extra ~£25 on some PWM fans, they will probably be quieter and he won't have to take the side off the case to adjust the speed.
 
Doomedspeed said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £99.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (TXD38G2400HC10QDC01) £59.99
1 x Akasa Venom 550w Modular '80 Plus' Power Supply £53.99
Total : £649.85 (includes shipping : £10.00).



7870 LE (with a little OCing) is comparable to the 7950.

2400mhz RAM, just to save a little more money. :)

Modular PSU. :)

Really a cooler would be good too (though would be nearer £700):

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 90 Day Guarantee £35.99
Total : £45.89 (includes shipping : £8.25).

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Mate this is perfect build. I've just found out he also has a Corsair VX450w PSU (...I should have known this, I bought the system for him...), will PSU be decent enough to run the above or will he need a bit more power? I know the AMD cards are power efficient, but this is more with regards to the whole system.
 
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