Help with Building Gaming PC on a budget

[Zorton]

Hi,
I am looking to build a new Gaming PC for the home. It will also be used as the family home computer. I wanted to keep the spend down and had the following build in mind:-

Cooler Master RC-430-KWN1 Elite 430 Midi Tower with Window - Black
- £39.47
Gigabyte XKT-1155 Z68AP-D3 Motherboard (Rev 1.0)
-£75.86
Asus 1GB GeForce GTX 560TI DirectCUII PCI-E Graphics Card
- £166.99
Corsair CMPSU-700GUK Gaming Series GS700 High Performance 700W Power Supply
- £69.99
Akasa AK-274CB-4BLS 12cm Blue LED case fan
- £6.78
G-Skill 8GBXL Ripjaws X for Intel Sandybridge Platforms DDR3 PC12800 1600MHz 8GB Kit
- £38.84
Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive –£84.65
Intel Sandybridge i5-2500K Unlocked Core i5 Quad-Core Processor (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache, Socket 1155)
£157.19

However, this is coming to about £700 (€840) and excludes a DVD-Rewriter or NIC Card.
For games - I want it to be able to play Crysis 3, Dark Souls,Diablo 3 and any future Unreal Engine 4 games that are due to come out. It doesn't have to be at 1080p on 60fps.

Can I replace some of the components to bring the price down, even if I have to lose some of the capacity ? e.g - i5 Intel CPU to i3 ??

I want to make sure that whatever I build is also upgradable if need be.
Thank you for all your help.
Regards,
Z

 

[honosuseri]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £191.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £189.95
1 x MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £77.38
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £74.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 700W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £49.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £38.39
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £720.66 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Ivybridge uses less power than sandybridge. It also has a better IGP.

Z77 mobo allows the overclocking of the CPU, it's lucid MVP uses the IGP to boost your GPU and quick sync uses it to boost video encoding tasks.

The 7850 would be your best bet with it's 2GB of VRAM. They overclock well too, 2GB is quickly becoming the standard for GPU VRAM. It also gets a boost from lucid MVP which is nice. The PSU is modular and to be honest it's OTT, however it's priced the same as the 600W unit so is a bit of a bargain.

The RAM you have picked isn't low profile. THose aggressive heatspreaders means fitting aftermarket heatsinks over them is a pain.....much simpler to buy LP RAM. The overclock of the CPU is done via multiplier so you don't need RAM faster than 1600mhz on this socket really

Hope this helps, any more questions or problems......you know where to find us

 

[olivier renault]

7850 is pretty much the go-to card. If you have money, a 670 is nice too.

 

[Zorton]

Thanks a million for the responses, especially the detailed layout provided by honosuseri.
Certainly gives me something to think about. My problem is that, even though I would like to purchase the layout provided, my better half is of the opinion that it is not needed. From my point of view, I am arguing on the basis that we will have the PC for a long time and it will be an all rounder (kids, streaming, homework and gaming for me).
Her argument is that I have 2 gaming consoles so why do we need to get a PC that allows me to play games as well.

That is why I was trying to reduce the cost from £700 down to even, £600. It would help my argument.

Thanks again for all your help and advice - its much appreciated.
Z