£700 Gaming PC spec help

[Jonzilla71]

Hey Guys,

A few months ago you kindly helped me spec a gaming pc. Unfortunately I was unable to purchase it due to unexpected costs (stupid car!)

Anyway I will be able to buy at the end of next week and since then things have changed, so I have tried to keep to the original spec but just need it checked.

I do not need Monitor, OS, speakers or mouse and keyboard.

I want to play games like DayZ BF4 etc and do some photo and video editing.


Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £264.58
Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £62.99
Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (SHFS37A/240G) £74.99
EVGA 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0600-KR) £53.99
Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £9.95 (couldn't find a white one)
BitFenix Neos ATX Tower White/White £29.99

Total £696.47 without shipping

Is there anyway to lower the price a tad without lowering performance? Any better deals or anything that will work better?

Budget: £700 (but preferably around £650 only if we can do it without lowering performance)

Thanks!

 

[ShivP]

YOUR BASKET
1 x XFX Radeon R9 290 DD 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-290A-EDFD) £215.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £185.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £74.99
1 x Avexir Gold Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331104G-2CEY) - Yellow/Gold Light £65.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £14.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £9.95
Total : £719.86 - £15 (GPU Code) - ~£20 (games sale) = £684.86 (includes shipping : ).



£15.99 off the GPU - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18631947&highlight=xfx+290 Also comes with free games which can be sold for about £25 so brings you closer to £650
Also free shipping which makes it even cheaper http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18630207 Offsets the price of the better PSU

So faster GPU, and better PSU also (and colour co-ordinated RAM/better SSD)
GPU is 29.5cm and case takes 30cm cards so this will be fine

Do you not need a storage HDD?

 

[Jonzilla71]

Sweet! That's awesome thanks Shivy!

I might add a HDD after but to start I won't be putting much more than the OS and a few games on. Just trying to keep the cost down so I can buy before christmas. Also I will still have my laptop so i will just use it as eternal storage if i must lol

 

[ShivP]

Sweet! That's awesome thanks Shivy!

I might add a HDD after but to start I won't be putting much more than the OS and a few games on. Just trying to keep the cost down so I can buy before christmas. Also I will still have my laptop so i will just use it as eternal storage if i must lol

Okay sounds good, 256GB will be ample for games + OS

Only downside to my build is that it doesn't support SLI, but the 290 will last yo for a good while as it is a beast. Again, has a better SSD, PSU, GPU and colour co-ordinated RAM (you could swap it out for that savage you specced as the insides won't be visible with this case but 2133Mhz -> 2400Mhz speed performance benefit is minimal)

 

[ShivP]

Actually had a second thought, remembered the cashback! - £22.50 with this board/CPU

http://www.gigabytenordic.com/uk/intel_z97-x99_promotion/index.html

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £264.58
1 x XFX Radeon R9 290 DD 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-290A-EDFD) £215.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £74.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £62.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £14.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £9.95
Total : £733.45 - £22.50 (cashback mobo/cpu) - £15.99 (GPU) - ~£20 (games) = £674.96 (includes shipping : ).




GPU promotion and free shipping apply still ofc, so cheaper overall and better!