£800 budget for a gaming PC.

RetroVertigo · 25 Dec 2014 at 22:42

Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!

I'm going to be buying and building my first gaming PC and I need an experienced PC builder to help me choose the components for it. As the thread title states my budget is about £800 and I want the best PC that I can get for that amount of money, so that I can play all of the best games to a good level.

I would like an SSD to boot the OS from and the HDD to be 1TB in size. The OS will be bought separately so it doesn't need to be included in the £800 build and I want the PC to have at least 8GB of RAM. Also I would like a DVD±RW SATA ReWriter as well.

Thanks.

Doomedspeed · 26 Dec 2014 at 03:41

Do you need a monitor, keyboard and mouse too?

Will this be upgraded over time or just fully replaced when it hits the wall? (No shame in the later, it'll just help speccers decide whether Xfire/SLI compatiblity is important or not).

Will you be overclocking at all?

RetroVertigo · 26 Dec 2014 at 09:44

Thanks for your reply, no sorry I should have mentioned that I don't need a monitor and I'll be buying a new keyboard an mouse separately. Yeah, I'll want to upgrade certain parts over time. No I won't be overclocking it.

Doomedspeed · 26 Dec 2014 at 18:27

This may be ideal then:

YOUR BASKET
1 x GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EX OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (97NQH6DNB4UX) £275.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £142.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £62.99
1 x Gigabyte B85M-D3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £56.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16001104G-2CW) - Blue Light £53.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £750.47 (includes shipping : £8.00).

RetroVertigo · 26 Dec 2014 at 20:20

Thanks for the build suggestion, I've just got one question with the build that you suggested, would it need any extra cooling fans or is it ok as it is?

Doomedspeed · 26 Dec 2014 at 20:28

RetroVertigo said:
Thanks for the build suggestion, I've just got one question with the build that you suggested, would it need any extra cooling fans or is it ok as it is?

No worries,

The case comes with 2 fans pre-installed, one front, one rear.. So no need for any more.

The CPU comes with a stock cooler, which is okay for running the CPU at stock but you can add a cheaper aftermarket cooler, such as the Themis to improve temps/noise (for £20).. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-RT

sanaxe1 · 26 Dec 2014 at 20:55

Doomedspeed said:
This may be ideal then:

YOUR BASKET
1 x GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EX OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (97NQH6DNB4UX) £275.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £142.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £62.99
1 x Gigabyte B85M-D3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £56.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16001104G-2CW) - Blue Light £53.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £750.47 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Seems you have extra left over doesn't it make sense to upgrade the CPU to the 4690 for the extra £30 : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-532-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567

IC3 · 26 Dec 2014 at 21:04

Change the card to

YOUR BASKET
1 x GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infinity Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive** £287.99
Total : £287.99 (includes shipping : ).

Doomedspeed · 27 Dec 2014 at 00:13

sanaxe1 said:
Seems you have extra left over doesn't it make sense to upgrade the CPU to the 4690 for the extra £30 : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-532-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567

IC3 said:
Change the card to

YOUR BASKET
1 x GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infinity Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive** £287.99
Total : £287.99 (includes shipping : ).

Both are very little gains for the money.

IC3 · 27 Dec 2014 at 13:27

Doomedspeed said:
Both are very little gains for the money.

But isn't that like the only one with coil whine warranty?

ElliottC420 · 27 Dec 2014 at 15:29

290x Lightning is also a very good deal at the price it's currently at.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-273-MS