£650 Gaming Setup

Citizensnipss

Citizensnipss

Citizensnipss

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Hi guys,

Have been lurking a while now and the time has come to buy my first setup.
Budget of £650 (a little leeway if its really worth the moneys) with which to buy everything inc. monitor, mouse & keyboard. Ideally i will be using to play BF4 and Rome 2 etc. so please let me know if it will struggle.

Cheers Gents :D
 
Do you need an Operating System as well?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce 3X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £161.99
1 x Iiyama Prolite E2481HS-B1 24" Widescreen LED Super Slim Bezel Monitor - Black £131.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £75.95
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £49.99
1 x Akasa Venom 550w Modular '80 Plus' Power Supply £47.99
1 x **B Grade** Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM £30
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler £17.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £655.86 (includes shipping : FREE).



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If you're looking at spending a bit extra, the 8320 is a good choice (£110 at the moment), or a higher quality cooler (£25-£30) to overclock the CPU to around 4.5GHz.
 
As teppic suggests, if you can go that extra then of course, extra performance is ready waiting to be purchased. The 6300 is capable, but the 8320 is better as expected.

An SSD is probably the most noticeable piece of hardware, everything becomes so fast!
A better cooler is a good shout as well.

The GPU has the HDMI output. The motherboard won't have any video outputs.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce 3X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £161.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £110.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £75.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £62.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £49.99
1 x Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Pro SR1 CPU Cooler £39.95
1 x **B Grade** Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM £30
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £645.82 (includes shipping : FREE).



With the monitor gone. - Do you need a disk drive?
 
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Citizensnipss said:
I'm thinking of leaving the monitor for now to play through my LCD TV, though this mobo has no HDMI support, any other around this price which do?
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If you don't need a monitor, and you'd like an SSD as Reaper recommended, you could stick an SSD in straightaway for your OS and programs, and then add a HDD for extra storage more easily later on. Also an aftermarket cooler later on. This way you might be able to stretch to an FX-8320 and an R9 280X, for example:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £263.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £110.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £75.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £62.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x EVGA 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0600-KR) £43.99
1 x Aerocool V3X Advance Evil Blue Edition Midi-Tower - Black/Blue £25.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £677.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Hasn't got the best CAS timings, hence the price, but it's still considerably faster than the 1600MHz, and will give you more overclocking range*. However, if aesthetics are a concern as well, then the blue Patriot memory is your best bet for that price range and mobo.

* It will probably start at 1600MHz by default, until you overclock.
 
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