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SteDLS

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Hey guys, looking for a new system to fit a lonely space.
Building it to run a few very anticipated games for me, at a reasonable pace. BF4, Watchdogs, The Division, Sims 4 etc
My budget went from £900 > £1050 after seeing this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-363-OE&groupid=43&catid=2475

Would be adding 3tb of space + a KFA2 770.

Is it worth it?

PS, what is the OCUK packaging like? Obviously they are the best of the best, but I have never purchased from here before.

(Hoping to get it on finance, so wish me luck!)

Thanks in advance, and hope you all have a very nice new year.
 
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if you can build yourself you can get more for less, making the alterations you suggested pushes the price above £1100 and there isn't even an SSD:



YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 770 Lightning 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x CM Storm Scout II Advanced Gaming Case - White £89.99
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £86.99
1 x Be Quiet Power Zone 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Fully Modular Power Supply £79.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £71.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £68.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Silverstone Argon SST-AR01 CPU Cooler - 120mm £28.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
2 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 120mm blue LED fan - White £11.99 (£23.98)
Total : £970.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).





includes an SSD for your OS and some apps, switching to a 2gb or 3gb HDD wont cost much more, mobo/case/psu all easily interchangeable for similar equivalents (like the sniper ATX mobo, or a corsair carbide 300R case, or a superflower 650 PSU, you get the idea..) this particular shopping trolley comes with two LED fans for the side window which will look nice, and Glowing/pulsing ram, also, this 770 is slightly better than the KFA one i think.
 
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Thank you very much for your help, with my budget I also allocated £75-100 of that on labour, cable management, overclocking etc as although I have no real issues with building myself, it's the little things that I can't do which make that extra money worth it.

At the moment, I'm not too bothered about an SSD, that's why I opted for the extra tb of space. Boot times/loading screens never really bothered me to an extent of spending more.

I will consider both. :)

Do you think that I would be being ripped off if I went ahead with the prebuilt? I don't, personally. But I don't know everything about these things.

The RAM and case fans you suggested are great, I think the NZXT Phantom already comes with LED fans, but I was thinking about putting a window panel in there too.
 
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If you don't mind not having a SSD from the off...

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 780 Phantom 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £379.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £95.99
1 x Toshiba 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA300) HDD £86.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 410 Enthusiast Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal £84.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £69.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £65.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £1,072.31 (includes shipping : £13.75).




You can fit a 780 in for a similar price. The Case is out of stock atm but is the same one as the titan pc.
 
See that one has really sent me off track now, haha.
I love the idea of a prebuilt machine from overclockers, but that looks insane for the price.

I might request no hdd, buy the one you recommended, and have an extra £50/60 to get a better graphics card.

I'm still trying to work out how you saved that much money from the prebuilt though, the case is around £20 cheaper, the CPU is the same, I think the PSU is the same etc.

I need to compare,
thanks!
 
You have to factor in the cost of ocuk building it and also the warranty which will impact the price. I have always built my own, although there is nothing wrong with getting a prebuilt one either. You do get more for your money though if you self build.
 
Here is a prebuilt version with a 780 and the same amount of hard drive space


YOUR BASKET
1 x "Titan 415i Bayonet" Intel Core i5 4670K @ 4.1GHz Overclocked Haswell Quad Core Gaming PC £507.06
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 780 Phantom 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £379.99
1 x No Sound Card Upgrade £0
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 410 Enthusiast Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal £84.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x 24 MONTH WARRANTY - COLLECT & RETURN £0.01
1 x Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days £0
Total : £1,176.18 (includes shipping : £18.50).




So you are saving £100 by building it yourself.
 
You have been a great help, I can get the first one I posted, with 2tb but with the 780 card for £1162.98 inc VAT.

Works better as I do not need the OS :)
I suppose, if it comes to it, I can always get the 3tb drive at a later date just as a backup etc.

Cheers again
 
You are welcome :) Seeing as though the NZXT case is out of stock it might be a good idea speaking to customer services just so you can get an idea of a build time.
 
id just like to add i personally really recommend an SSD as the upgrade you will 'feel' or 'notice' more than anything else more or less, during day to day use, you can put all kinds of things on it (skype, browsers, spotify, steam, windows etc etc) which makes them all very snappy! either way your rig looks fantastic and i hope you have lots of fun with it! OCUK will build it professionally and you'll get a great warranty also
 
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id just like to add i personally really recommend an SSD as the upgrade you will 'feel' or 'notice' more than anything else more or less, during day to day use, you can put all kinds of things on it (skype, browsers, spotify, steam, windows etc etc) which makes them all very snappy! either way your rig looks fantastic and i hope you have lots of fun with it! OCUK will build it professionally and you'll get a great warranty also
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I appreciate the help :).
Would all games have to go onto an SSD? If so I can't really stretch the budget to a 250/500GB SSD. I could add one at a later time though if everything didn't need to be transferred, just the OS etc.

Thanks
 
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I appreciate the help :).
Would all games have to go onto an SSD? If so I can't really stretch the budget to a 250/500GB SSD. I could add one at a later time though if everything didn't need to be transferred, just the OS etc.

Thanks
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it wont make games run any faster, though it might make them open a bit quicker if you kept them on there, typically people have a normal HDD for their games libraries and music/videos etc, for example having steam on SSD but your steam games library on HDD, but if you're purely looking for GAMING performance for money, SSD is a bad buy (wont improve frame rates etc)
 
SteDLS said:
I appreciate the help :).
Would all games have to go onto an SSD? If so I can't really stretch the budget to a 250/500GB SSD. I could add one at a later time though if everything didn't need to be transferred, just the OS etc.

Thanks
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You could put a 120GB SSD in if you don't want to go too far over. The Samsung Evo would be a nice addition. You can always add a larger one at a later date. As Tohrazer said you just put the operating system, any programs you use regularly and games you are playing on the SSD. The main 2TB hard drive just acts as a storage device.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £76.99
Total : £84.73 (includes shipping : £6.45).

 
Ah that makes a lot more sense now.
I quite like the idea of teamspeak/spotify taking less than 4 days to load up :P.

Cheers again, cleared up a lot of newbie questions for me.
 
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