Help with first proper gaming desktop build please! :)

Chopsuey19

Chopsuey19

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Good evening all,


I'm looking at building my first desktop - I'm pretty new to the forum and would appreciate any help that you could give me.

Budget-wise I'm looking at around £1k for the actual build with a 1080p monitor on top of that. The sort of games that I'd be running on it would be League of Legends, Fallout, Battlefield, Ark, DayZ etc - by no stretch expecting it to run at the highest settings for everything, I'm just done with my current laptop where that isn't even remotely an option! :)

Feel free to treat me like I know very little - never built one before!

Rough sort of thing I'd be after:
- i5/i7 Quadcore (one of the overclock models)
- 16GB RAM
- SSD
- Not checked graphics cards actually, one that should hopefully do me for the foreseeable future!
- 1TB internal hard drive - would bumping up from 5400rpm to 7200rpm make much difference performance-wise?
- Tower - something pretty! Maybe £60-80

Beyond that I haven't really got much in the way of specs - I'd really appreciate any help or suggestions you could give me.

Thanks in advance,

Alex
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,015.83
(includes shipping: £28.02)
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I can vouch for the Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle as its the bundle I bought last month and its a great board and a super cpu it will play anything you want coupled to the R9 390 Im still using my 7950 and it still plays anything I throw at it
 
mickyflinn said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,015.83
(includes shipping: £28.02)
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Thanks for this post - Just what I am looking for as I too am in the market for this type of priced build (however I already have a monitor). Would it be as simple as removing the £100 monitor and adding around £50 each to GPU and CPU to upgrade them? Really appreciate any advice on this, as you can see its my first post so any extra advice on building it myself would be great! My mate bought a pre-built bundle from here a while ago so I am hoping that I will be able to get a better system together by building it myself? Is that generally the case?
There just seem to be sooooo many options for each component that its hard to figure out what the optimum setup is. :)
 
Yeah I looked at the case and thought that! I will swap that for one with space for a BluRay drive, Cheers!

Leaking coolers doesnt sound good...any others you recommend?
 
I also think the Phanteks Enthoo Pro M is a good choice- o0nly let down by Flimsy side panels & a poor window

Its a great little case though
 
Ok thanks - have changed the case and a few other bits and I am now looking at the below build, any advice if this will all work together of if i've gone unnecessarily overboard somewhere would be great. (Sorry I haven't figured out how to link it nicely like the others)

1x Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Midi Tower Case with Window - Black £59.99 *

1x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£25 Saving** £346.98 *

1x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU) £65.99 *

1x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA100) £32.39 *

1x LG WH14NS40 Blu-ray Writer Optical Drive 14X BDR £48.95 *

1x Cougar GX V3 600W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £69.95 *

1x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED316G2133HC11ADC01 £68.99 *

1x MSI GeForce GTX 980 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £389.99 *

1x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £24.95 *

Total + Shipping = £1,122

Thoughts?
 
You could save some money and get the i5 bundle. The i7 won't get you anything extra in the games you play.
 
Ahhh I thought that might be the case. What situations would the i7 be worth it then? Would the i7 be 'future-proofing' a bit more than the i5 or are the benefits really minimal?
 
Woah sorry I thought you were the OP, didn't realise we had a double spec me thread.

What will you be using your PC for? If it's just for gaming the i7 with hyper threading will perform marginally better than an i5 without HT. But the difference between 2-5fps vs £100 isn't very cost effective.

If you do a video editing, photoshop etc then the HT on the i7 will help out with the rendering times.

As for Future Proofing, it's kind of like a false economy, the i5 2500k which has been out a few years now, is no worse than an i5 4690k that is out now. Intel haven't may huge improvements in the design etc.

But for epeen and bling bling points, having an i7 is nice.
 
Yeah sorry, in other forums ive been in they try to encourage less new threads so figured it would be easier to jump in here as the OP had a similar budget to myself :)

Gaming mainly yeah, and yup its probably gonna also be for the bling points and so that when I tell my friend 'my new PC has an i7 cpu' he will slowly nod and say 'niiiiiiice'.

I need to wait for the money to be available for this so I have a week or so to think about whether its worth the £100 (probably is tbh)
 
I recently purchased the I5 4690k bundle and have moved over from an FX8350 and to be honest... its a great CPU for games and as above..
I wouldn't see the point in the i7 if its just for games.. for video editing then yes the i7

I did consider going for the i7 4790 next year as an upgrade but after much reading and searching ill be spending my next upgrade cash on a 144Mhz monitor

my current spec is

Phanteks Enthoo Pro M
i5 4690K @ 4.5Ghz
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI
Gainward GTX 970 Phantom
16Gb corsair vengeance 1600Mhz @ 1866Mhz
Samsung 120gb ssd system
Seagate 2tb storage
Lg bluray drive, writer
corsair cx750m
corsair H80i

My machine plays any of my games at max settings at 60+fps so I dont see the point in going for the 4790k as it would only give me a few extra fps in my games and still do the same as it does the now..
 
I have an i7 4790k, and the way I saw it at the time was, and it might be wrong and people will probably jump down my neck for it but,

Current games, at the moment don't utilise HT on the cores, but that's not to say games in 3-4 years won't. I'd rather have more and not use it all, than not enough and be screwed. Plus I may not do much PS and video stuff now, but again that's not to say in 2-3 years I won't start to do it more heavily.

If you can get an i7 inside your budget, get one. I read the OP and saw the 1k budget and the games the OP played and then saw your spec with an i7 being £122 over the budget, put 2+2 together and made 5 :)
 
being honest.. if I was to get the 4790k dirt cheap I would take one and then get a cheap board to rehome the 4690k in for my oldest but I dont see the point in paying the full price at the moment for it.
 
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