Hello,
Trying to assemble a game PC for roughly £1000 for my girlfriend and this is for all parts (including peripherals). Most of it will be from OCUK some will be from elsewhere for various reasons, I'm from the Netherlands so I can take some hardware in my suitcase when I'm visiting.
The system is intended to be used for gaming, MMO's in particular (hence the choice for an Intel CPU). Overclocking is of no interest, the case is relatively expensive but considered a must have.
What I went for is the following:
If anyone wants to point out alternative cheaper parts which perform similiar or are simply better for the same price it would be appreciated. I'm fairly confident the parts all have a very good bang-a-buck value but I'd like to be proven wrong
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Trying to assemble a game PC for roughly £1000 for my girlfriend and this is for all parts (including peripherals). Most of it will be from OCUK some will be from elsewhere for various reasons, I'm from the Netherlands so I can take some hardware in my suitcase when I'm visiting.
The system is intended to be used for gaming, MMO's in particular (hence the choice for an Intel CPU). Overclocking is of no interest, the case is relatively expensive but considered a must have.
What I went for is the following:
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| Component | Name | Price |
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| Peripherals and stuff |
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| Monitor BenQ GW2450HM £120 |
| Speakers Bose Companion 2 Series III £79 |
| Keyboard Corsair Vengeance K70 £90 |
| Mouse Logitech G502 Proteus £53 |
| Mouse pad Corsair MM200 Extended £25 |
+----------------------------------------------------+
| Case & Contents |
+----------------------------------------------------+
| Case NZXT Phantom Black £105 |
| Case fan NZXT FS-200 £14 |
| CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 412S £29 |
| Motherboard ASRock H97 Pro4 £54 |
| Processor Intel Core i5-4690 £156 |
| Video card MSI Radeon R9 280x Twin Frozr £150 |
| Storage Seagate 1TB SSHD £58 |
| Power Supply XFX P1-550G-TS3X £53 |
| Memory Corsair Vengeance 8GB (CL9) FREE!|
+----------------------------------------------------+
| Total: £986 |
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+Delivery costs = ~£1000- Monitor
Mostly picked for its looks, but a VA-panel fast enough for gaming so not a bad choice imho. - Speakers
Will be used more for music than gaming. - Keyboard
The keyboard has to have Cherry MX red switches and look good. Since a US-layout is desired it will be coming from overseas. - Mouse
Logitech never disappoints and a decent number of buttons for MMOs. - Mouse pad
Looking for a black mouse pad big enough to cover both keyboard and mouse with minimal branding. - Case
Picked based on looks (not even the Phantom 410 is pretty enough it seems). This one won't change based on suggestions. (To be fair, it is a really nice case in aspects other than looks as well) - Case fan
NZXT uses non-standard fans so really get to pick between their slow (silent) and their more airflow (louder) fan. Went with silence. - CPU cooler
No one likes boxed coolers and the CM 412s is hard to beat although the Alpenfohn Brocken is really attractively priced by OCUK. Being that heavy and not having a backplate bugs me however. - Motherboard
Looking for an ATX form-factor motherboard which is nice and cheap and supports the very recent haswell refresh CPUs out of the box. Ended up at this ASRock which happens to be one of my favourite brands. - Processor
Went with Intel for MMO performance, went with the i5 4690 because overclocking isn't of interest and it's 100Mhz faster than the 4670 at the same price. - Video card
Mining hype passed, bought this R9 280x second hand with 2 years and 7 months warranty left for £150. - Storage
Need to keep the budget in check so SSD+HDD isn't going to work. Although not as good a SSHD is still better than a HDD and helps to give that fast/new feeling. - Power supply
Took some searching but got this XFX recommended. Can't find any professional reviews on it but apparently it's a rebranded Seasonic G-series. The original was very well received by johnyguru. - Memory
Can't beat free, still have 8GB extra tall Corsair Vengeance RAM because it wouldn't fit under my enormous BeQuiet CPU cooler.
If anyone wants to point out alternative cheaper parts which perform similiar or are simply better for the same price it would be appreciated. I'm fairly confident the parts all have a very good bang-a-buck value but I'd like to be proven wrong
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