Mates after a system upgrade

dtsrules · 22 Jan 2014 at 17:02

Ive had a look and picked out the bits below (needs an SSD). Not sure if im on the right lines or not so any help would be appreciated.

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Boost OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Boost OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £149.99
ASRock H87M Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard ASRock H87M Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £71.99
Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £59.99

He's after...

Mainboard
Processor
Ram
Graphics card
ssd drive

£600ish

dtsrules · 24 Jan 2014 at 10:12

Am i close with this build or way off?

mickyflinn · 24 Jan 2014 at 10:34

i am presuming you need a micro atx board, retail cpu has 3 years warranty oem only has 1 year.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce 3X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £149.99
1 x Asus Z87M-PLUS Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £106.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
Total : £576.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).

With a faster gpu, both come with BF4.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO "BF4 Edition" 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £173.99
1 x Asus Z87M-PLUS Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £106.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
Total : £666.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).

dtsrules · 24 Jan 2014 at 20:09

mickyflinn said:
i am presuming you need a micro atx board, retail cpu has 3 years warranty oem only has 1 year.

Thanks for the reply
Didn't think of the cpu warranty tbh. He will be along later to take a look.

dtsrules · 26 Jan 2014 at 19:09

Bought the first one in your recommendation, thanks for that.