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I have a friend who doesn't live anywhere near me so he has to buy a pre made pc from over clockers rather then buying the parts and building a computer.

Now onto what he needs and budget he wants to play mine craft and skyrim on best graphics, able to record vids from his xbox/ps4 and pc to upload to youtube.
He wants the computer to run 3 screens which I also need to buy so ideas for 22" are welcome.

Ideally without the cost of the screens we would like the cost of the case to be around £600

I have seen Titan Tanto DC" Intel Core i5 4690K @ 4.2GHz Overclocked Nvidia GeForce Gaming PC for about £800 which is what he would want to be overkill but its also over budget.

The only way I could make it work as under casual gaming option but I am worried it might not be good enough to run 3 screens etc so views welcome.

Also I was thinking if I wanted to connect 3 screens do I have to sli?


Product Name

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Price

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OcUK Fun CGi - Intel Haswell Casual Gaming PC Configurator OcUK Fun CGi - Intel Haswell Casual Gaming PC Configurator £663.30
(£552.75) £663.30
(£552.75)
Options applied to the above product:
- Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
- No Security Software
- OcUK Value AT/ATX "Kettle Plug" 2 Meter Mains Cable
- No Headset Option (Zero Cost)
- Speakers Not Selected
- Monitor Not Selected
- Mouse Not Selected
- Keyboard Not Selected
- Case Mods Not Selected
- Networking Not Selected
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733)
- SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
- OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
- No Second Hard Drive Option (ZERO Cost)
- Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD
- MSI GeForce GTX 750 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N750-1GD5/OC)
- TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01)
- No Upgrade - Intel Stock Cooler (None overclocked systems)
- Asus H81M-K Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
- Intel Core i5-4690 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
- BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black




Sub Total : £552.75
Shipping cost based on delivery to the UK with:
UPS Access Point
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £112.15
Total : £672.90



thanks for your help
 
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Hi,

Im looking through that and cant see an upgrade GFX card listed? so it will be onboard video which sucks and you wont play any modern games on it at all well.


This pre-built has a 280X which is a very strong card for 1080P gaming.

YOUR BASKET
1 x "Defender X6" AMD FX-6 6300 @ 4.1GHz Turbo AMD Radeon Six Core Gaming PC £271.02
- 1 x No Sound Card Upgrade £0.00
- 1 x No Second Hard Drive Option (ZERO Cost) £0.00
- 1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £35.99
- 1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £161.99
- 1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £59.99
- 1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
- 1 x No Operating System £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
Total : £618.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
What you have specced is a Gaming PC with no GPU, to play Skyrim well, he'll need a GPU.

Is he not able to build the PC himself? He would get much better value and have better choices.

Does he want to just 'run' 3 screens (and game on one) or Game on all 3 screens? Ifits game on all 3, then he REALLY needs to up the budget. If he DOESN'T NEED 3 screensfor what he's doing, i suggest you talk him out of it... I know youseepictures of eyefinity and the phrase 'i want that' springs to mind, but its a lot of money, power and fiddling to get it all to work (especially if SLI/Xfire is neded).

Justto be clear, that spec above won't be good enough. (unless im missing something)
 
Still not good enough (ive had one myself) look at what I posted, thats a strong spec for gaming.

One problem is its small HDD which should be bigger.
 
That' 750 isn't a great card for Skyrim, Minecraft yes but not skyrim...perhaps on low level eyecandy but that defeats the purpose of skyrim, you want the visuals to immerse yourself in :)
 
Doomedspeed said:
What you have specced is a Gaming PC with no GPU, to play Skyrim well, he'll need a GPU.

Is he not able to build the PC himself? He would get much better value and have better choices.

Does he want to just 'run' 3 screens (and game on one) or Game on all 3 screens? Ifits game on all 3, then he REALLY needs to up the budget. If he DOESN'T NEED 3 screensfor what he's doing, i suggest you talk him out of it... I know youseepictures of eyefinity and the phrase 'i want that' springs to mind, but its a lot of money, power and fiddling to get it all to work (especially if SLI/Xfire is neded).

Justto be clear, that spec above won't be good enough. (unless im missing something)
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from what he told me game on 1 and then watch other stuff on the other screen, IE if he was live streaming then watch chat etc but the idea was to game on one
 
Worth noting, that even Stulid's amazing spec abilities can't get you something that will run 3 screens for gaming. 280X is great for a single 1080p for sure, just need some heavy equipment for Tri-1080p!

Need moooar dollar!

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thanks for the feedback, well if he is not going have 3 screens then that's an extra 100quid I could put into the rig I guess
 
stulid said:
Hi,

Im looking through that and cant see an upgrade GFX card listed? so it will be onboard video which sucks and you wont play any modern games on it at all well.


This pre-built has a 280X which is a very strong card for 1080P gaming.

YOUR BASKET
1 x "Defender X6" AMD FX-6 6300 @ 4.1GHz Turbo AMD Radeon Six Core Gaming PC £271.02
- 1 x No Sound Card Upgrade £0.00
- 1 x No Second Hard Drive Option (ZERO Cost) £0.00
- 1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £35.99
- 1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £161.99
- 1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £59.99
- 1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
- 1 x No Operating System £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
Total : £618.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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First time ever, but a few issues with this mate;

Skyrim is a silly (but awesome game) that is killed by AMD CPU's.. It so strongly favours intel its mad. Some benchmarks show the pentium (non-K) performing better than the 6300. It just relies a lot on single threaded power..

As for the spec, from above i think he needs windows included too, and the card in the spec is a 280, not a 280X.. :)

Love you really..

The 280 specced will handle 3 screens (one gaming)..

This is what he couldhaveif he builds himself:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel Core i5 DIY Micro ATX Motherboard, CPU & RAM Bundle £227.98
1 x **B Grade** VTX3D Radeon R9 280 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £129.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020047-UK) £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £581.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
Ive played Skyrim with an APU+280X (when I did my Kaveri review) and it was fine so I'm not to sure about preferring Intel.
 
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