Gaming PC £1000

Kippered · 20 Apr 2014 at 16:09

Afternoon folks,

A friend of mine is looking to build a PC in a couple of weeks. Specifically for gaming.

Mainly plays games like Starcraft, Diablo, Skyrim, ME. Not really into FPS etc.

£1000 including a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Can anyone suggests a spec?

Cheers

RJC · 20 Apr 2014 at 16:24

Went a bit over:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-03-40G) £319.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x IIyama Prolite E2473HS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £125.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/8X) £45.95
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 950 Liquid CPU Cooler £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
1 x Zalman ZM-K200M Multimedia/Gaming Keyboard £11.99
1 x Gigabyte M6880 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £10.99
Total : £1,037.82 (includes shipping : ).

Kippered · 21 Apr 2014 at 11:46

Cool thanks.

Is there a reason you went for water cooling? I doubt he'll be pushing the limits of overclocking so could do without that.

Looks good though. I suspect he'll spend a tad more than £1k but is good to see whats possible around that mark.

RJC · 21 Apr 2014 at 11:48

There on special offer and won't interfere with the ram

Also should be quiet operation.

Kippered · 21 Apr 2014 at 11:50

Ah right.

I see the R9 290's are being recommended across a lot of threads at the moment.

Is that just because they are on special or are Radeon on top at the moment?

Not looked at the market since I bought my 670's.

ExRayTed · 21 Apr 2014 at 11:56

Kippered said:
Ah right.

I see the R9 290's are being recommended across a lot of threads at the moment.

Is that just because they are on special or are Radeon on top at the moment?

Not looked at the market since I bought my 670's.

Best bang / buck currently.

Kippered · 21 Apr 2014 at 13:13

would the PSU still be sufficient if we stuck another SSD in there?

Thinking 2 x 128gb

RJC · 21 Apr 2014 at 13:14

Plenty

Ruaille · 21 Apr 2014 at 14:05

If you want to go mATX this is a nice option. Also listed a decent air cooler that could help save a few quid.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z87M-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x Cooler Master N200 NSE-200-KWN1 Midi-Tower Windowed - Black £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Total : £152.93 (includes shipping : ).

EDIT: If you use the rest of RJCs build but replace the case, mobo and cooler with these you save £23.04, you get a smaller form factor and a nice window through which to view your pretty GPU. Of course you lose some expansion so if you're planning to use crossfire later it might be better to go ATX for the airflow. Just some food for thought.

Kippered · 21 Apr 2014 at 18:27

Cool thanks for the variation.

He's itching to buy something haha.

Looking like he'll stick with most of RJC's spec but change out the monitor, for

Asus VN247H 24"Widescreen

I see the RAM is out of stock now though. Bit of a bummer as that was a sweet deal.

Any alternatives?

dacads · 21 Apr 2014 at 18:34

Make your pick

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2133HC11ADC01) £53.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £53.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2400HC11CDC01) £53.99
Total : £171.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Kippered · 22 Apr 2014 at 10:01

Cheers

Kippered · 22 Apr 2014 at 19:46

So, after the above suggestions and a few tweaks this is what he is looking at.

Looks good to me. What do you think?.....also slightly over budget

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-03-40G) £319.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x Asus VN247H 24"Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black £155.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 750W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x Aerocool CyborgX Midi Tower Case - Black £67.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G1600HC9DC01) £49.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 950 Liquid CPU Cooler £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
1 x Zalman ZM-K200M Multimedia/Gaming Keyboard £11.99
1 x Gigabyte M6880 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £10.99
Total : £1,131.83 (includes shipping : ).

RJC · 22 Apr 2014 at 20:27

You won't need a 750w PSU

A 550 - 650 will be ample.

But looking ok, case looks ugly

ExRayTed · 22 Apr 2014 at 20:58

Save on the PSU and buy a bigger SSD with the change.

Case is all kinds of ugly though

Exoon · 22 Apr 2014 at 21:36

Yeah case is really ugly

Looking at the picture i thought it would be a £20 case, but £67 ? You have so many better options then that.

Kippered · 22 Apr 2014 at 22:28

haha each to their own. Think he's changed it now, he's a forum lurker and was upset after you lot ****ged it off

Fallen god · 22 Apr 2014 at 22:52

Personally would go with one of these, more leading towards the Ronin.

YOUR BASKET
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black (CC-9011014-WW) £59.99
Total : £142.24 (includes shipping : £10.25).