First Build, Advice and spec please

Vene

Vene

Vene

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Hello!

i would like to build my first Gaming pc and i need advice on the parts, and on the little things such as overclocking.

Budget: £1000 or less

i need everything, but i would like an I7haswell/Corsair 540 Cube

i was thinking i could use my Samsung UE32F6200 tv as a monitor till next payday thus the 1k budget.

i intend to play games such as Skyrim, RomeTW2 and the like

thanks in advance!
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
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 Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Silver (CC-9011034-WLED) £129.95
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x Avexir Venom Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C9 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21330904G-2CIG) - Green Light £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Prolimatech Panther CPU Cooler £32.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £997.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).




Almost forgot, welcome to the forum :)
 
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Presume you need Windows.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO "BF4 Edition" 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW) £129.95
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 Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Akasa Venom 550w Modular '80 Plus' Power Supply £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,087.92 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
i like the build, all it needs is windows :)
thanks for the welcome!
ive been lurking for awhile, kinda stuck between prebuilt/self-build and waiting for the next big release
 
ill be ordering tomorrow
didnt know the 540 come in silver
just a question
does overclocking really improve gaming performance?
and is it hard to overclock?
 
Overcloking does increase performance and most motherboards come with auto overclocking utilities which makes things a lot easier.

You could save yourself some money and go for a 4670k to bring costs down.
 
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would downgrading to an i5 make a noticeable decrease in performance?
could you spec me an i5 to compare
thanks
 
You can certainly get a more rounded build if you drop to an i5. For gaming the performance difference would be negligible.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO "BF4 Edition" 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW) £129.95
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £63.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,028.34 (includes shipping : £17.10).



This would be my suggestion, i've picked what I think are the best bits from the two builds above and made a couple of my own changes. I've kept the sniper motherboard as this has great on board sound and still gives all the features you would need. I've included a nice beefy CPU cooler that will easily let you overclock the i5 to 4.2-4.6Ghz without breaking a sweat, and then included the 280x which is a good bit more powerful than the 270x in the first build. I've also upped the storage drive from 1TB to 2TB with some of the moeny saved elsewhere.
 
Vene said:
i like the build, all it needs is windows :)
thanks for the welcome!
ive been lurking for awhile, kinda stuck between prebuilt/self-build and waiting for the next big release
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Definitely build yourself bud. RJC has done a very good job for you. There is a trial for windows 8 you can use free for 3 months, you could worry about paying for the OS later on then.

The GB Sniper is really the mobo to be considering. It has good onboard audio and can do dual GPUs and is very decent at overclocking. The 650W PSU is enough to run two 270s (you could add another much later when they are cheap 2nd hand) and the 270 has decent grunt for 1080P gaming.

To be honest if you are just going to game then the i5K isn't a bad compromise at all. Yes the i7 is better suited for dual GPUs and some games but the Hyperthreading really is most useful for video editing etc.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
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 Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW) £129.95
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Avexir Venom Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C9 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21330904G-2CIG) - Green Light £79.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Dark Knight SD-1283 Night Hawk Edition CPU Cooler £34.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
Total : £997.91 (includes shipping : £11.75).



That's everything but honestly I'd probably consider a cheaper case on your budget, unless you will watercool or use a CLC then the 540 could be a little overkill.....lovely case though.

Did you know what monitor you will get? This could have a knock on effect to what GPU you should choose. Skyrim isn't very demanding to be fair and I'm running Rome2 on an old Nvidia 460 reasonably well at 1080P

All the best with it bud. I'm not trying to confuse you just making sure the rig is tailored to your needs. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and seeing what you settle on :)
 
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