Gaming Pc Help - approx £800. Clueless!

Paintedhair · 30 Nov 2014 at 17:37

Hello.

I am looking for a gaming pc and don't really have a clue to where to start, it will be for playing games, battle field 4 etc. I don't need the monitor or keyboard etc but will need it to be able to connect to the wifi. I will need the pc built, I do not know anyone that could build it for us.

The person it is for would like a Nvidia graphics card, that much I do know! If possible I would like to get a gaming pc that wont be out of date in 6 months.

Can anyone advise me, or point me in the right direction?

Thank you very much for any help.

Paintedhair · 30 Nov 2014 at 17:43

Hi stulid, thank you for replying. Yes it will need to have an OS.

My budget is a bit flexible, after weeks of reading, I am still not sure how to make sure I get the best set up that I can, so thank you for your time.

Paintedhair · 30 Nov 2014 at 18:02

Thank you so much for this help. It's for my son.. He better be putting as much thought into my gift from Santa

I am not sure about resolution, I'm sorry. I do know that he has a 24" monitor. That probably doesn't help does it? Sorry.

We would like the best graphics card that we can get, with the intel i5 that you listed. Is it then just a case of asking the store to build for us?

Thank you again.

Paintedhair · 30 Nov 2014 at 18:14

Thank you both so much! I really appreciate this, to me it's like a different language all this stuff lol.

I think it deff has to be the 970 graphics card, thank you.

Shivy, what cooler would you add to that? Does it definitely need one?

Sorry for all the extra questions.

Paintedhair · 30 Nov 2014 at 18:26

stulid said:
This is with Nvidia,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £258.58
1 x KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Retail (77XPH6DV6KTZ) £215.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £56.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND) £16.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £762.10 (includes shipping : £8.00).

There are cheaper cards like the GTX760 range, but the R9 280 is a better buy than that.

Would this card work with the above?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-071-ZT

Paintedhair · 30 Nov 2014 at 18:33

And one more question (most likely will end up more than one!) if he wanted over time to upgrade and had the confidence to learn how to do it, would that build with the GTX970 allow that?

And would it be a case of unpacking, plugging this in and playing - bar the odd thing? But it would be ok on wifi?

Would you be happy with such a build? Would you enjoy gaming on it?

See! I knew it would be more that one question! This forum is a lifesaver, thank you.

Paintedhair · 30 Nov 2014 at 18:38

Thank you both very much for your help.

Paintedhair · 30 Nov 2014 at 20:00

stulid said:
This is with Nvidia,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £258.58
1 x KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Retail (77XPH6DV6KTZ) £215.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £56.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND) £16.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £762.10 (includes shipping : £8.00).

There are cheaper cards like the GTX760 range, but the R9 280 is a better buy than that.

Sorry me again!

Can I just ask, does the above (with the GTX 970) need a cooler? and I know this is going to sound thick but does it need a sound card?

I keep looking at the Titan tanto pre-built too...my budget is getting slammed lol
:eek:

Paintedhair · 30 Nov 2014 at 20:06

Thank you again, that's perfect

I've made a thread in customer sales asking to have the advised spec built linking here.