After a gaming pc build :)

Edwardioo · 31 Aug 2014 at 21:47

hi there im new and dont no much about pc's, im after a gaming pc, at the min i've got a macbook pro 15" retina so im selling this to fund my build

hoping to be spending £1k on a pc including a 22" screen, keyboard, mouse and a os.

any help would be great

thanks, Ed.

stulid · 31 Aug 2014 at 22:29

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £254.58
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x AOC E2460SH 24" Widescreen 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x CM Storm Sniper Elite Gamer Peripheral Bundle £64.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £1,013.44 (includes shipping : £13.75).

SkidMarkKing · 31 Aug 2014 at 22:41

Better get that Mac sold bud

Edwardioo · 31 Aug 2014 at 22:43

SkidMarkKing said:
Better get that Mac sold bud

do me a favour and buy it lol

SkidMarkKing · 31 Aug 2014 at 22:47

Edwardioo said:
do me a favour and buy it lol

Haa! I keep wanting to change my PC enough as it is without buying a mac too lol

Edwardioo · 31 Aug 2014 at 22:58

SkidMarkKing said:
Haa! I keep wanting to change my PC enough as it is without buying a mac too lol

macs are ok but for the money you can have a better pc.

Edwardioo · 31 Aug 2014 at 23:00

stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £254.58
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x AOC E2460SH 24" Widescreen 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x CM Storm Sniper Elite Gamer Peripheral Bundle £64.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £1,013.44 (includes shipping : £13.75).

cheers for that build, think i would change the screen to a 22" though to go with my current one.

DaleTheWhale · 1 Sep 2014 at 15:07

22" is tiny!

David Bisset · 1 Sep 2014 at 15:48

If you don't mind the colour change you could save a few quid on the RAM...

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99

HEADRAT · 1 Sep 2014 at 16:23

Or buy some secondhand Sandybridge equipment and get about 80% of the performance for 20% of the money

deFiniLoGy · 1 Sep 2014 at 16:33

HEADRAT said:
Or buy some secondhand Sandybridge equipment and get about 80% of the performance for 20% of the money

+1 on that

I bought a whole set of Haswell when Haswell-Refresh was out

Edwardioo · 1 Sep 2014 at 21:07

thanks for the help guys