£600 gaming machine

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Hey guys I'm looking to do my first ever build. I have about £600 to spend on a machine and I don't need any peripherals or an OS. The main games I play are CSGO and DayZ but I'd like a machine capable of handling some newer stuff. I've done a bit of research but if anyone could give me any ideas that would be brilliant.

Thanks!
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750Ti WindForce OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £69.95
1 x Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) £67.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £52.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** HDD £46.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £37.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
Total : £595.49 (includes shipping : £8.00).



You can use the windows 8 90 day trial until you get an os, also you get a free game with that gpu. No price hinting, read the forum FAQ's
 
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Thats not very good as you have no heatsink for the CPU, a slow SSD (they changed the NAND chips used to make the read/write speeds slower) and over priced slow RAM.


Instead heres a well balanced spec,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £129.95
1 x Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT240M500SSD1) £87.98
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2133HC11ADC01) £59.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Gold £29.99
1 x Antec VP450P 450W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £602.42 (includes shipping : £8.00).



• The SSD should be big enough to hold a lot of games and the OS add a HDD later.
 
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £131.99
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270 TurboDUO 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £125.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Intel 320 Series 120GB Internal SSD SATA 3GB/s 2.5" 7mm (SSDSA2BW120G3) £54.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Asus H81M-E Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £35.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £31.99
1 x Zalman T1U3 Mini-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £20.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
1 x OcUK Tech Labs Zaward OEM 120mm Golf Ball Fan £2.99
Total : £593.38 (includes shipping : £11.25).



right on budget
intel i5 processor + amd r9 270
120gb ssd + 500gb hard drive
chucked in optical drive for good measure
os included with price

and to be honest, the i5 rig even though its not overclockable will run rings around a fx6300 spec ;p
 
Not deabtable;)

Faster overclockable CPU.

Bigger case with more room and some cable management instead of none.

Faster RAM as the board supports it, Haswell Likes fast RAM as it makes it more "efficient". Most AM3+ boards don't support more than 2000/22133MHz RAM divider, just like that ASUS AM3+ actually, so that RAM will be downclocked.

GFX card and motherboard both have better warranties.

;)
 
You talk about overclocking, I don't see a cooler :p My spec is overclockable and has a better GPU.

GFX Cards tend to arrive faulty or soon after, warranty isn't an issue with a turnaround time of <72 hours.

Not sure why you've mentioned case as we've chosen the same one :p

As for RAM I doubt you'll see a difference. I've gone with faster RAM than yours, again not sure what you're seeing ;)

So not much left to debate really :)

Unless Tamzzy wants to defend his spec?
 
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You talk about overclocking, I don't see a cooler :p My spec is overclockable and has a better GPU.

GFX Cards tend to arrive faulty or soon after, warranty isn't an issue with a turnaround time of <72 hours.

Not sure why you've mentioned case as we've chosen the same one :p

As for RAM I doubt you'll see a difference. I've gone with faster RAM than yours, again not sure what you're seeing ;)

So not much left to debate really :)
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You don't need a aftermarket heatsink as desperately as you do with AMND CPU's to get an overclock on Haswell.

Also you mention faster RAM, yet the board doesn't support over 2133MHz according to ASUS specification

A 270X is the same as a 270 with just a MHz difference.
 
A GTX660 or GTX750ti is equal in price to a 270.

The board wont take long to come back into stock, I could probably get a ETA tomorrow.
 
was looking at getting this setup due to wanting nvidia what do you think. ?


OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black
Antec VP450P 450W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply
TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2133HC11ADC01)
Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT240M500SSD1)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750Ti WindForce OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail

changed mobo for sli maybe you know of a better option there.

thanks also noticed there was pre order on the case you linked any idear what the wait would be. thanks
 
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