Best Pre-Built Setup @ £950?

Shampoo · 28 Jul 2015 at 13:10

Afternoon, Ladies/Gents

I'll be purchasing a pre-built machine for my brother at some stage this week and the budget is £950 with no room to go any higher. Ideally I'd have preferred to buy the parts and self-assemble but he wants the pre-built and the warrant implications that come with it. Never mind!

I'm looking at the "Titan Tanto DC" as the PC of choice as we can get that well within spec but is there something more powerful to be had that I may have overlooked? As he'll be gaming on it, will the 4790K be worth the premium over the 4690K and will 8GB of RAM be fine against 16GB?

Just need some help getting as much gaming power as possible within the price range. Cheers.

Quite happy to ditch aesthetics if it means more grunt under the bonnet. That's what matters after all.

Glanza · 28 Jul 2015 at 13:16

I'd ring or use the live chat with OCUK and give them your budget as they might be able to spec you something different.

I'd stick with the i5 and 8gb ram for gaming but try pushing the 960 upto a 970. The Project cars pre built system comes with the 970 you just need to change to a ssd and a 1tb hdd.

Shampoo · 28 Jul 2015 at 13:55

CPU on that setup is non-K and the case choices are hideous.

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dacads · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:18

Hello, how about this?

YOUR BASKET
1 x "Titan Tanto" Intel Core i5 4690 @ 3.9GHz Turbo Quad Core Gaming PC £241.13
- 1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infin8 Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive** £289.99
- 1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
- 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU) £79.99
- 1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £35.99
- 1 x NO OPTICAL DRIVE INSTALLED £0.00
- 1 x No Sound Card Upgrade £0.00
- 1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £187.99
- 1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black Windowed £36.95
- 1 x Case Mods Not Selected £0.00
- 1 x OcUK Standard System Warranty - 3 Year (24 Month C&R + 12 Month Labour) £0.00
- 1 x Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days £0.00
- 1 x ESET Smart Security - Trial Key £0.00
- 1 x No Operating System £0.00
Total : £929.03 (includes shipping : £12.50 Ex.VAT).

Room to select a better case as well i.e Bitfenix Shinobi

lee32uk · 28 Jul 2015 at 16:20

You can ask OCUK to build you a pc to your own spec. If you post a basket in the customer services section then they can give you a quote. I think it is about £60+ depending on the system. That way you can choose the parts you want rather than having to go with a pre-build.

Basket Extension:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18371076&highlight=browser

Shampoo · 28 Jul 2015 at 16:26

That's good to know. If I was just buying the parts I'd build it myself though! Brother wants the pre-build and I'm just trying to see the extent we can go within those confines. was hoping for a 5820 setup under a grand but those CPU's only seem to come with the more extreme bundles.

maccy: the report screen kept the little 'loading' animation going as though it wasn't actually completing and sending anything. Sorry about all the dupes.