£800 gaming pc advice please!

[pewad]

Looking to spend around the £800 mark on a new PC, this price would be for the pc alone with a copy of windows 8.1, not including a monitor or any accessories. Only real necessity is an SSD.

Primary use will be gaming, with some Photoshop and video editing.

Could anyone offer some advice on what to get?

 

[random_matt]

First advise, Win 8 is terrible. If you have experience with it and liked it, fair enough.
Intel SSD's for me personally, probably the most reliable.
Try and get a 280X.

 

[Danny75]

Will you be building it yourself?

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £245.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £113.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
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) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Zalman Z3 Midi-Tower - Black £34.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
Total : £800.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).



That's more or less what you'll get if you fit a 280X in. Some would advise to try and get an i5 Intel build instead, and a 270X or GTX 760 for now. Unless you can stretch budget to around £880, then you could have the i5 build with a 280X or GTX 770.

P.S. The stock AMD cooler can be noisy. You'd probably want to spend a bit extra on an aftermarket cooler. The stock Intel coolers are okay but not suitable for overclocking.