So I'm going to start buying components for my first build. I've got suggestions from people prior to this and have changed them a little for personal preference.
First of all I want to go with a blue and white colour scheme. Thought I might as well since I was spending so much money (for me anyway) on it. Anyway I've researched the specs I'll achieve with this and as a main use for gaming I understand that it will handle literally any game with very playable framerate on max settings at 720/1080.
GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card - £239.99
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail - £169.99
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - £84.60
PSU: SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black - £79.99
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Arctic White 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9W) - £74.99
Case: NZXT Phantom 240 Midi-Tower - White - £65.99
SSD: Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive Black / White Finish (KE-S32120-W) - £62.99
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD - £42.95
Monitor: IIyama Prolite E2473HS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black - £119.99
Total: £965.59
The GPU was originally recommended was a different R9 280x however this one seemed better.
CPU was a no brainer as it seems it's the best one for gaming without spending too much.
Again I was recommended a cheaper motherboard but this went with my colour scheme and plus it's extremely future proof for upgrades.
The PSU had to be somewhat modular as the case I chose wasn't supposed to be extremely cable friendly so I wanted as little wireclutter as possible.
The case looks amazing for me, great aesthetics, still decent at cable management and has plenty of HDD/SSDs slots. May be a little expensive but I've seen it on amazon recently for about £10 less.
I also need to add an optical drive, I'll just get a cheap one not much need for it aside from installing, I also need to get OS but as a student I can get it for cheaper. I will also invest in some extra case fans, appreciate some suggestions! Also if there's something I really need to change that will make it better and is white/blue/black, I'll be happy to reconsider.
First of all I want to go with a blue and white colour scheme. Thought I might as well since I was spending so much money (for me anyway) on it. Anyway I've researched the specs I'll achieve with this and as a main use for gaming I understand that it will handle literally any game with very playable framerate on max settings at 720/1080.
GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card - £239.99
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail - £169.99
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - £84.60
PSU: SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black - £79.99
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Arctic White 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9W) - £74.99
Case: NZXT Phantom 240 Midi-Tower - White - £65.99
SSD: Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive Black / White Finish (KE-S32120-W) - £62.99
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD - £42.95
Monitor: IIyama Prolite E2473HS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black - £119.99
Total: £965.59
The GPU was originally recommended was a different R9 280x however this one seemed better.
CPU was a no brainer as it seems it's the best one for gaming without spending too much.
Again I was recommended a cheaper motherboard but this went with my colour scheme and plus it's extremely future proof for upgrades.
The PSU had to be somewhat modular as the case I chose wasn't supposed to be extremely cable friendly so I wanted as little wireclutter as possible.
The case looks amazing for me, great aesthetics, still decent at cable management and has plenty of HDD/SSDs slots. May be a little expensive but I've seen it on amazon recently for about £10 less.
I also need to add an optical drive, I'll just get a cheap one not much need for it aside from installing, I also need to get OS but as a student I can get it for cheaper. I will also invest in some extra case fans, appreciate some suggestions! Also if there's something I really need to change that will make it better and is white/blue/black, I'll be happy to reconsider.
