Gaming PC spec, help needed.

[Cemetary Gates]

Hi there everyone,

A few months ago the members on this forum were a great help in me building my first gaming PC. Especially teppic, who was very helpful at every stage. I have now been asked to build a PC for a friend which I feel pretty confident in doing, but not so confident in choosing the best components for his budget.

If anyone would be kind enough to offer some ideas or advice it would be most appreciated. His budget is between £1200 - 1300. Display is not required but everything else is. He wants to play a pretty broad range of games but he is a big fan of the Battlefield games and so I would expect he would like it to perform well with BF4. Also it would be nice if it was possible to be able to upgrade at a later date, perhaps by adding a second GPU and/or upgrading the CPU. Thanks in advance for your time

 

[Cemetary Gates]

Wow, I go away for a few days and come back to all this!! Many thanks to everyone here, I didn't expect so many responses so soon!

I have gone through all your suggestions and now shown them to the person who the pc is intended for. I think you have whetted their appetite as they now have decided to stretch their budget to accommodate two GPU's They really are looking at the R9 280 or 290. I will get back shortly with a more concrete idea very soon.

Thanks again to everyone!

 

[Cemetary Gates]

Hello again and thanks everyone,

Apologies for the slow response. After sitting down with my friend he has come up with the following, something of a combination of ideas from everyone here He is not too concerned with colour co-ordination but this is what we have come up with.....


CPU - Intel CORE I7 4770k 3.5ghz (Haswell) LGA1150 £269.99
GPU - 2 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280x REV 2.0 Winforce 3x OC 3072mb £579.98
SSD - samsung 120gb SSD 840 EVO SATA 6gb/s basic £79.99
HD - Seagate barracuda 2TB £59.99
CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i High performance LCPU £99.95
CASE - Corsair Obsidian 750D £138.38
OS - Windows 8.1 64bit £69.95
DVD - Pioneer 24x Internal DVD rewriter £17.99
Keyboard - Corsair Vengeance K65 £69.99
Mouse - Roccat Kone Pure £64.99

Total - £1,381.25 As you can see the budget has since gone up! LOL

Sorry for no links! I cant for the life of get it to work properly for some reason

This just leaves the question of a suitable Motherboard, RAM and PSU. Anyone who can suggest which would be most appropriate would be of a great help. Also if anything with the above seems wrong or just plain stupid, please do not hesitate to point it out

Once again, many thanks to everyone on here!