Ignore the title, it's just a spec check now: Tower and OS only, he has peripherals and monitor etc. I have free shipping.
Looking at the following for my brother. It's a Photoshop (he does freelance graphic design, so it has to be at least pretty good for PS, although we don't need spectacular) and moderate gaming (mostly older titles) rig.
Case must be no more than 25cm wide, as it has to fit in his PC desk, and I liked the Arc Midi when making a previous build. Budget is up to £870, but that needs to include being built by OcUK (I'm not sure how much that costs) and he'd prefer to keep it closer to the £800 mark unless the extra really gets him something worthwhile
SSD and 16GB RAM are a must, anything else can be changed if there's a good enough reason
and he'd prefer to keep the optical drive.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £199.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 "ITX Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139) £79.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £69.95
1 x Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 Midi Tower - Black £69.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x Silverstone TD03-LITE Liquid CPU Cooler £54.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £53.99
1 x Samsung SH-224FB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM M disc compatible £14.99
Total : £815.77
Any suggestions or obvious problems or areas for improvement? Anything vital I've missed out?
Looking at the following for my brother. It's a Photoshop (he does freelance graphic design, so it has to be at least pretty good for PS, although we don't need spectacular) and moderate gaming (mostly older titles) rig.
Case must be no more than 25cm wide, as it has to fit in his PC desk, and I liked the Arc Midi when making a previous build. Budget is up to £870, but that needs to include being built by OcUK (I'm not sure how much that costs) and he'd prefer to keep it closer to the £800 mark unless the extra really gets him something worthwhile
SSD and 16GB RAM are a must, anything else can be changed if there's a good enough reason

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £199.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 "ITX Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139) £79.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £69.95
1 x Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 Midi Tower - Black £69.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x Silverstone TD03-LITE Liquid CPU Cooler £54.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £53.99
1 x Samsung SH-224FB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM M disc compatible £14.99
Total : £815.77










Any suggestions or obvious problems or areas for improvement? Anything vital I've missed out?
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