£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

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)

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?

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?

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.