£900 - £950 build

tommrman · 24 Dec 2014 at 17:31

Hello all,

I purchased my old system about 4 years ago from Overclockers and looking to upgrade, I have some experience in swapping components, I have added more RAM & changed the graphics card but wouldn't have the confidence to build a system from scratch I can spend up to £1000 if there is an extra charge from Overclockers to build it for me? Would they?

I have a budget of around £900-£950 to spend on a new system and I would need everything including a monitor. My main focus is gaming with it and if its possible with the budget leaving scope in a couple of months time to add more RAM or another Graphics Card or another H.D.D(but not essential). My main focus would be on a decent processor(on reviews thinking i5 over i7) & graphics card initially (not sure which way to go on this as mixed reviews on Nvidia or Radeon and which is best at the moment)

Any suggestions would be most appreciated

Thanks

Tom

Captain · 24 Dec 2014 at 19:48

What games do you play?

tommrman · 26 Dec 2014 at 12:35

I mainly play Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls but also other RPGS like Skrim, The Witcher series & RTS(sins of a solar empire, total wars series & a few other 4X and tower defence games)

RJC · 26 Dec 2014 at 12:45

Yo can get Ocuk to build this for you:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £188.99
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280 Gaming 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x Asus VN247H 24"Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black £139.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £86.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £84.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £59.99
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 Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
Total : £928.81 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Also you can get £22.50 back from Gigabyte:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/LP/gigabyte-cashback-promo.php

tommrman · 26 Dec 2014 at 13:28

Thanks for the suggestion, I would need to fit in Windows to that somewhere, but I could take out the HDD I could live with the SSD and add a HDD later. In your opinion if I could stretch the budget a little would the 290 with the 3 free games be a better choice?

Danny75 · 26 Dec 2014 at 19:53

tommrman said:
Thanks for the suggestion, I would need to fit in Windows to that somewhere, but I could take out the HDD I could live with the SSD and add a HDD later. In your opinion if I could stretch the budget a little would the 290 with the 3 free games be a better choice?

The 750W would handle 280 CrossFire but isn't ideal for 290 CrossFire.

Dropping to a 550W for a single card, might put you in reach of a GTX 970, as well as help towards the 290 if you prefer.

tommrman · 27 Dec 2014 at 19:12

Which graphics card would be best for my budget if I went single card build as opposed to the crossfire or sli?

RJC · 27 Dec 2014 at 21:30

The 970

Gilbert89 · 27 Dec 2014 at 22:35

The 970! Eats anything at 1080p.

Runs virtually silent, low temps as far as GPU's go and draws considerably less power than Radeons equivalent (290)

750 PSU also enough to SLI this card in the future when prices have dropped and that extra performance is required.

One card to look at though so I hear is the MSI 290 Lightning version (if still on offer)

tommrman · 28 Dec 2014 at 12:36

so if I up my budget a little I come up with this -

1 x MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £293.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £188.99
1 x Asus VE228HR 22" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £86.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £84.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £59.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
Total : £1,062.26 (includes shipping : £13.75).

any thoughts and feedback would be very much appreciated.