First PC £500

gibbo123 · 4 Jul 2013 at 21:07

looking to build my first gamming pc...I have a monitor, key board, mouse and I also have a pretty decent graphics card (thanks to a mate)...Could any one spec me the rest of the parts.. 500 max...cheers

RJC · 4 Jul 2013 at 21:17

Hello and welome to the forum

A little over but do you know the model of the GPU?

Done a quick build below:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £194.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £106.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual CHannel Kit (PV38G213C1K) £59.99
1 x Thermaltake Smart 630W '80 Plus' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
Total : £531.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).

honosuseri · 4 Jul 2013 at 21:20

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £83.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Windowed Case - Black £59.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £49.99
1 x Thermaltake Smart Series 530w Modular '80Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £505.03 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Going Ivy is a little cheaper than Haswell. It's still not to be sniffed at and you can overclock the i5K CPU. Ideally you'd want to add a better heatsink in time but they don't have to be expensive.

If you need an OS there is a trial for windows 8 you can use for three months for free.

gibbo123 · 4 Jul 2013 at 23:13

Cheers guys!

MikeTheNative · 5 Jul 2013 at 14:14

It's a 6870 (I'm the friend), not much but I thought it would be the difference between him getting an I3 and an I5.

RJC · 5 Jul 2013 at 14:47

MikeTheNative said:
It's a 6870 (I'm the friend), not much but I thought it would be the difference between him getting an I3 and an I5.

Thought I ask mainly getting the PSU right, the 650w in my build can be dropped to 500w~ to save some money but OcUk seems limited in lower end decent PSU in stock.

Jony27 · 5 Jul 2013 at 15:05

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-006-XF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2462

Should be enough.

honosuseri · 5 Jul 2013 at 15:10

RJC said:
Thought I ask mainly getting the PSU right, the 650w in my build can be dropped to 500w~ to save some money but OcUk seems limited in lower end decent PSU in stock.

A nice spec it was too bud. I just did the Ivy build alternative as it was easy to get it to £500 which was the max he wanted to pay. To be fair I could have used a cheaper case to help fund an aftermarket heatsink to OC the i5K.

A 6870 isn't sad at all, although only having only 1GB of VRAM I can understand wanting to upgrade from it. I still run a heavily OC'd Nvidia 1GB 460 which is roughly on par. New drivers and overclocking have helped keep it in service, I can wait till Oct time before I change it out.

I'm sure he could push that GPU a little harder with MSI afterburner