My First build, Advice!

Fallen god · 22 Jan 2014 at 10:47

Dxwson said:
that is a nice build but my budget tops out around £1000, i won't be using both monitors for gaming, just the one with a second for other stuff. what makes the other motherboards better than the g1 sniper?

If your going with a ATX build I would go with the G1, if its the mATX version I don't think the price difference is really worth it. I can redo the build and cap at it at 1k, are you intending to go with your original case and a ATX build, it would make things easier tbh.

Dxwson · 22 Jan 2014 at 20:14

Fallen god said:
If your going with a ATX build I would go with the G1, if its the mATX version I don't think the price difference is really worth it. I can redo the build and cap at it at 1k, are you intending to go with your original case and a ATX build, it would make things easier tbh.

yes it will be an ATX build in that case, will be used as a gaming system with 2 monitors however only 1 monitor for gaming, thanks for your help!

Fallen god · 22 Jan 2014 at 21:25

Dxwson said:
yes it will be an ATX build in that case, will be used as a gaming system with 2 monitors however only 1 monitor for gaming, thanks for your help!

Np, I couldn't find the case you liked so I sub'd it for a really nice one, went with a 280x, I like it more then the 770, it has a bit more ram so well help and has a free copy of 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 - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Corsair Force LS Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F120GBLS) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Avexir Venom Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIG) - Green Light £71.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
Total : £995.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Dxwson · 22 Jan 2014 at 22:11

Fallen god said:
Np, I couldn't find the case you liked so I sub'd it for a really nice one, went with a 280x, I like it more then the 770, it has a bit more ram so well help and has a free copy of 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 - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Corsair Force LS Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F120GBLS) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Avexir Venom Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIG) - Green Light £71.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
Total : £995.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

that is a nice build, i was going with the 770 windforce 4gb, i hear they are similar cards but decided to go nvidia, the place i will be buying from gives me a copy of the new assasins creed so that's a bonus too. i went for the 4gb due to the dual monitor set up. at that price the card is very good, so may have to re-consider! thanks for your help

Ethermaster · 22 Jan 2014 at 22:27

Mini ITX?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £369.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £99.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A1866C9) £73.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian Series 250D Mini ITX Compact Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011047-WW) £71.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Samsung SE-S208DB/TSBS External Slimline 8x DVD-RW (TV Connect) - Black £21.98
Total : £1,139.90 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Doomedspeed · 22 Jan 2014 at 22:52

Ethermaster said:
Mini ITX?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £369.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £99.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A1866C9) £73.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian Series 250D Mini ITX Compact Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011047-WW) £71.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Samsung SE-S208DB/TSBS External Slimline 8x DVD-RW (TV Connect) - Black £21.98
Total : £1,139.90 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Stunning but you're not great at this whole budget thing

The OP needs windows too.

Dxwson · 22 Jan 2014 at 22:57

Ethermaster said:
Mini ITX?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £369.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £99.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A1866C9) £73.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian Series 250D Mini ITX Compact Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011047-WW) £71.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Samsung SE-S208DB/TSBS External Slimline 8x DVD-RW (TV Connect) - Black £21.98
Total : £1,139.90 (includes shipping : £11.75).

i wouldn't mind a mini-ATX build but i'd rather start out with something with a bit more space!

Ethermaster · 22 Jan 2014 at 22:58

Doomedspeed said:
Stunning but you're not great at this whole budget thing

The OP needs windows too.

There is also the 3 months Windows 8.1 Enterprise FREE trial that the OP could use until he could get a copy of windows to call his own

Dxwson · 22 Jan 2014 at 23:07

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £369.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £71.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,092.91 (includes shipping : £11.75).

how about this for a little over budget? again SSD isn't really important to me, never been bothered with boot speed!

Ethermaster · 22 Jan 2014 at 23:14

Why only 1600MHz? when 2400MHz is like few quid more?? Also put the internal optical back on the shelf and get yourself a external!

Dxwson · 22 Jan 2014 at 23:18

Also are these graphics cards a little over kill? i will only be playing at 1920 x 1080, if i can get a better value card i will

Dxwson · 22 Jan 2014 at 23:19

Ethermaster said:
Why only 1600MHz? when 2400MHz is like few quid more?? Also put the internal optical back on the shelf and get yourself a external!

i thought about the external, to be honest i don't even think i'd use them!
and just quickly picked the memory haha!

fowler002 · 22 Jan 2014 at 23:29

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-239-MS

£20 cheaper tho it's red so off colour coordination wise.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-052-TG&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387

Faster cheaper ram, again not colour cooridnated with the mobo, if you want colour coordination with the mobo

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-044-AR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387

£20 more expensive but balanced out by the cheaper graphics card.

Dxwson · 22 Jan 2014 at 23:38

going to throw a spanner in the works here and re evaluate my situation, this build will probably be only used for gaming, no over clocking or anything like that, what, in your opinion is the best bang for buck system in the minute? under £1000 would be great and even pre built systems with benchmarks that i can build a similar system to would be even better. thanks for all your help it's really appreciated!

fowler002 · 22 Jan 2014 at 23:58

Would still suggest a 4670k even if you don't intend on overclocking now, will leave you an option to in the future if you find the system is starting to slow.

From the spec in your post #29 you can save money(on top of the gpu and ram I already suggested) by going for a cheaper CPU cooler(can get a decent air cooler for like half the price of the liquid cooler you chose). Can also go for a cheaper motherboard tho the one chose has very good on board sound.

Dxwson · 23 Jan 2014 at 20:04

CPU

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor £172.53
Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler £73.96
Asus Z87M-PLUS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard £99.23 Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory 65.99
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card £224.48
Corsair 350D Window MicroATX Mid Tower Case £89.18
Fractal Design Tesla R2 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply £75.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) £76.79

M-atx build

total around 945, quite like this build

Dxwson · 23 Jan 2014 at 20:05

fowler002 said:
Would still suggest a 4670k even if you don't intend on overclocking now, will leave you an option to in the future if you find the system is starting to slow.

From the spec in your post #29 you can save money(on top of the gpu and ram I already suggested) by going for a cheaper CPU cooler(can get a decent air cooler for like half the price of the liquid cooler you chose). Can also go for a cheaper motherboard tho the one chose has very good on board sound.

i really don't like big chunky coolers so that's my main reason for the cooling option, there are cheaper watercooling all in ones but i don't know weather to trust them

fowler002 · 23 Jan 2014 at 20:10

Are you getting this from elsewhere?
The faster ram I linked to is also cheaper than the one you mentioned, no idea who the oem is of the fractal psu but would say go with seasonic/antec/superflower psu.

Dxwson · 23 Jan 2014 at 20:16

fowler002 said:
Are you getting this from elsewhere?
The faster ram I linked to is also cheaper than the one you mentioned, no idea who the oem is of the fractal psu but would say go with seasonic/antec/superflower psu.

i will be getting some of it from but all over really, i will be going with the ram you linked from here and the fractal psu will be replaced with a superflower from here as well but it's a similar psu to the one i want. i was thinking about getting the noctua NH-L9i cooler if i didn't go with water cooling.