Gaming PC spec (£1500)

Enaver · 14 Mar 2014 at 13:39

Evening!

Looking to upgrade my gaming PC as its starting to age with new games, going to be giving my PC to sibling so will be getting a whole new one and not just upgrading components; Basically I will be starting from scratch.

I will have £1500 (give and take) to spend, I will be overclocking it but not to the degree where I will need anything fancy like watercooling; good old fans are more than enough for me. Down the line I will also be looking for a new screen, but that will be done on a separate budget than this but if you could recommend one that would be great. I will also be doing some film editing on this spec, thats secondary though.

I will be getting this in around 1-3 months, if you think anything special is coming out between then and now and I should let me know.

Cheers in advance.

lee32uk · 14 Mar 2014 at 14:32

Hi

Just a couple of questions

Do you have a preference for AMD/Nvidia gpu ?
Are you going to want a crossfire/sli build ? Or do you want a single card setup ?
Also do you need an operating system ?

The prices on components will no doubt change over 1-3 month timescale, although you can always swap and change things by the time you come to order.

Enaver · 14 Mar 2014 at 14:37

Ah yes of course forgot about that. I much prefer Nvidia simply because it is what I am use to/know. It will be a single card set up. Hmm I guess I will need a operating system, you can leave that out though as I might have a spare one.

snips86x · 14 Mar 2014 at 14:42

I'll just jump in with a spec for now:

AMD 290x:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290X Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P10 850W '80Plus Platinium' Modular Power Supply £161.99
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI GENE Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £149.99
1 x Parvum Systems S2.0 MicroATX Case - Black with Red £139.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x GeIL EVO Potenza 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (GPB38GB1866C9DC) £59.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £52.99
1 x Samsung SE-S208DB/TSBS External Slimline 8x DVD-RW (TV Connect) - Black £21.98
3 x Noiseblocker Multiframe S-Series M8-P Fan - 80mm PWM £12.95 (£38.85)
2 x Zaward Golf III Fan 120mm PWM LED ZG3-120B - black/red £10.98 (£21.96)
1 x Akasa AK-CB002 PWM Fan Splitter Cable £3.59
Total : £1,508.84 (includes shipping : £8.00).

nVidia 780:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £379.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P10 850W '80Plus Platinium' Modular Power Supply £161.99
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI GENE Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £149.99
1 x Parvum Systems S2.0 MicroATX Case - Black with Red £139.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x GeIL EVO Potenza 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (GPB38GB1866C9DC) £59.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £52.99
1 x Samsung SE-S208DB/TSBS External Slimline 8x DVD-RW (TV Connect) - Black £21.98
3 x Noiseblocker Multiframe S-Series M8-P Fan - 80mm PWM £12.95 (£38.85)
2 x Zaward Golf III Fan 120mm PWM LED ZG3-120B - black/red £10.98 (£21.96)
1 x Akasa AK-CB002 PWM Fan Splitter Cable £3.59
Total : £1,488.89 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Doomedspeed · 14 Mar 2014 at 15:44

snips86x said:
I'll just jump in with a spec for now:

AMD 290x:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290X Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P10 850W '80Plus Platinium' Modular Power Supply £161.99
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI GENE Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £149.99
1 x Parvum Systems S2.0 MicroATX Case - Black with Red £139.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x GeIL EVO Potenza 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (GPB38GB1866C9DC) £59.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £52.99
1 x Samsung SE-S208DB/TSBS External Slimline 8x DVD-RW (TV Connect) - Black £21.98
3 x Noiseblocker Multiframe S-Series M8-P Fan - 80mm PWM £12.95 (£38.85)
2 x Zaward Golf III Fan 120mm PWM LED ZG3-120B - black/red £10.98 (£21.96)
1 x Akasa AK-CB002 PWM Fan Splitter Cable £3.59
Total : £1,508.84 (includes shipping : £8.00).

^This but with a 290 DCII, Saves you £70.

lee32uk · 14 Mar 2014 at 16:15

Enaver · 15 Mar 2014 at 18:20

Cheers,

Never messed around with all the adapters before but I am assuming they are straight forward.

Space Monkey · 15 Mar 2014 at 19:05

They're just extensions, just clip onto the end of the main cable

Enaver · 20 Mar 2014 at 15:12

Quick question, I am planning to get the monitor below for this setup. I have read reviews that even a 780 will experience bad FPS with a 1440p, is this true and am I better off sticking with a 1080p?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-043-AS&groupid=17&catid=1120

Current monitor is LG W2363D 23" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black which I got a while ago, its now scratched and has never been that good. Was around £150.

Doomedspeed · 20 Mar 2014 at 17:11

A 780 should handle 1440p fine. Don't expect 100+ fps but you'll be around 40-60 easy on most big titles.