800£ budget build, help!

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Hi all,

a friend of mine wants to change his PC, he is looking for a gaming rig.
He needs:
1) Motherboard
2) CPU
3) GPU
4) PSU
5) RAM

I have some ideas but in my opinion is always best to confront with different people and since here is plenty of experts :-) please go ahead and blow my mind out :eek:!!!

Will be nice to fit in a nice GPU 770/280 and above... if we manage to :cool:

Thank you very much in advance!
 
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Danny75 said:
Stretching the budget slightly will get him a nice GTX 780 and the i7-4770K.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £369.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £245.99
1 x MSI Z87M Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIR) £59.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
Total : £865.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Does he have a good cooler already?
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Why a Micro-Atx board?
+ 280X > 780 IMO.
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
Why a Micro-Atx board?
+ 280X > 780 IMO.
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More personal taste than anything really (I have no real need for more than one or two PCI-E slots, or extreme overclocking). That MSI Micro-ATX has pretty much the same chipset (if not identical and just named differently as the "Z87 Express") to the Z87-G43 ATX board but it has debug leds that the other is missing, which are a nice touch imo (the Sniper ATX has them too for the same price, plus better sound, but I'm not fussy about sound and have a slight bias for MSI boards). Good reviews as well.

280X > 780? Yeah, better value per pound if that's what you mean, but the OP was wondering about "above". :)
 
Danny75 said:
Stretching the budget slightly will get him a nice GTX 780 and the i7-4770K.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £369.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £245.99
1 x MSI Z87M Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIR) £59.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
Total : £865.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Does he have a good cooler already?
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If not going xfire/sli or not doing tasks that require the extra threads better off going for the 4670k, save £10 ang get the msi 290 gaming. Also haswell likes faster ram.
 
Thank you very much all!

What I suggested to my friend:

CPU CPU Intel Core i5-4670k 3.4GHz 6MB Socket 1150 84W con GPU HD Graphics 4600 Boxed
Motherboard Mobo MSI Z87-G43 Socket 1150 Intel Z87 DDR3 SATA3 USB3 ATX
PSU Corsair CS750M 750W ATX 80+ Gold
RAM .RAM DDR3 G.Skill RipjawsZ PC3-19200 2400MHz 8GB (2x4GB) 10-12-10-31 2N XMP
GPU VGA MSI TF 3GD5/OC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Core 954/1006MHz Memory GDDR5 6008MHz 3GB DVI HDMI DP

with possible extra SSD
SSD SSD SanDisk 128GB Read 490MB/s Write 350MB/s SATA3 2.5" Retail

He has this case:
http://support.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1433&ID=1404
 
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