Building First Gaming PC Help Required Please

TheMadHatter

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hi I've decided to build myself a gaming pc on a budget of a £1000

could you help with suggestions with components


1 thing though when suggesting HDD/SSD NO seagate i don't like seagate drives



thanks in advance
 
Hi and Welcome,

Nice budget.

IS this PC just for gaming?

DO you just need the tower for £1000 or do you need monitor/os/keyboard/mouse too?

If its just the tower:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £99.95
1 x Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Fully Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £61.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £43.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £1,007.24 (includes shipping : £17.85).

 
hi doomedspeed gaming and watching 1080p videos on

keyboard and mouse/os are required


Forgot to mention Disc Drive isn't required (I've got a Good Pioneer BD Drive already)
 
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TheMadHatter said:
hi doomedspeed gaming and watching 1080p videos on

keyboard and mouse/os are required


Forgot to mention Disc Drive isn't required (I've got a Good Pioneer BD Drive already)
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That's fine.

Something like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £99.95
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 BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £61.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £43.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse £29.99
Total : £1,015.73 (includes shipping : £19.10).



Not really set-up for Xfire, as you'd need a Big PSU (750w-850W) but 550W will handle a single card. You don't really need another card for standard 1080p anyway. :)
 
mini itx?

YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D Radeon R9 290 V2 X-Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (VXR9 290 4GBD5-DHX) £299.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
1 x MSI Z97I AC Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £89.99
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 Corsair Builder Series CX 600w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020060-UK) £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Hitachi GST Travelstar 5K1000 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Hard Drive - (HTS541010A9E680) £49.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Case - Black £45.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H80 CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 1 Year Warranty £35.99
1 x CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse £29.99
Total : £1,000.44 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
I wouldn't touch the Refurb watercoolers...

(no offence Tamzzy) But for Cooling/Overclocking [overall performance] and ease of building my build is better. :)

For Space saving (maybe overall looks) and Filling a swimming pool (joke!) Tamzzy's is spot on. :)
 
no no. its true ;p
mini itx are always slightly harder to build in and overclock due to space constraints
and the refurb corsair can't be that bad...can it? it's the 2nd time ocuk are offering it...
 
yea. so is the psu =( i'd suggest contacting ocuk customer service to see when they're coming back into stock. i shouldn't imagine it taking too long...the cm 130 sell like hot cakes!
 
All the stuff I specced is in stock.. :)

tamzzy said:
and the refurb corsair can't be that bad...can it? it's the 2nd time ocuk are offering it...
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Well I heard/saw products turning up in brown boxes with little packing, also some got damaged in transit.

Also a loud had to be sent back again.

As their refurbs, they are products which 'failed' and have been 'repaired'. :)
 
MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £299.99
(£249.99) £299.99
(£249.99)
Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £189.95
(£158.29) £189.95
(£158.29)
MSI Z97 Gaming 7 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard MSI Z97 Gaming 7 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £139.99
(£116.66) £139.99
(£116.66)
Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX316C10FBK2/16) Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX316C10FBK2/16) £129.95
(£108.29) £129.95
(£108.29)
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
(£61.66) £73.99
(£61.66
 
TheMadHatter said:
can anyone recommend a good enough PSU/cooler for the above please ??
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What case are you going with ?

You don't need 16GB Ram for gaming, 8GB is plenty.

The Kingston SSD comes with a free copy of watchdogs. If that doesn't interest you then stick with the Samsung.

I would go for the Gigabyte card over the msi. I don't know what msi's warranty support is like, but gigabyte has UK based warranty support.

The superflower or NZXT in doomed's spec will both power the 290 ok.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £299.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/240G) £109.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
Total : £469.57 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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