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TMW2N

TMW2N

TMW2N

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Hi folks,
hope someone can point me in the right direction, I've paid litttle attention to gaming machines since the days of the thunderbird athlons... been too busy with work and other BORING stuff. However, I recently got started playing the odd bit of star trek online, and path of exile. My laptop struggles a bit with both of those, so I've decided to throw together a machine to play games on.
Therein lies the problem, I have no idea what's a good buy these days, so any pointers for a reasonable machine for around the £750 - 850 mark, no preference for intel or amd, nvidia or amd. it's been so long since i bothered, my ideas are old and mouldy.
I have an OS, and monitor, kb and mouse, so just the system unit.

any help GREATLY appreciated
 
Hello and welcome to the forum :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £185.99
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce 3X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £164.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Raijintek EreBoss High Performance CPU Cooler £31.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.95
Total : £844.42 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 280X iPower IceQ X2 Boost 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £113.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 2 620w '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £71.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Raijintek EreBoss High Performance CPU Cooler £31.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.95
Total : £822.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).




... and Welcome. :)
 
Thanks guys. seems the jury is back on the graphics front at least, with the AMD cards being in both builds. She who must be obeyed has just piped up with "i'll buy your graphics card" which is always a nice thing to hear :)
 
Was going to throw my opinion in but both those builds look pretty sweet :) I love Corsair & Bitfenix cases too, they are the only ones I ever buy when building anything for myself or friends.
 
I went with the first build however i need a new heatsink, any suggestions? the one I got doesn't fit, it hits the side of the case, so i'd need to run with the case off, and that's not the best plan.
Machine will be sat under the desk gathering dust for a bit now, so no rush with suggestions.
 
actually, nevermind i'll use the stock CPU cooler until i've got time to mess about taking the machine apart again. Thanks for the help folks.
 
got the ereboss cooler and ronin case. there's not much in it, but the fan hits the case side. if i push the fan down lower, only the top half is held by the rubber grommet things, so it'll flap about and make a racket at best, or not cool the cpu at worst.
might work with a smaller fan...
 
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