Need a new PC (spec please)

[BennyLava1]

Hi guys new to the forum and PC building in general have had a bit of experience but want to have a go building my own PC (with help on hand if i get stuck) I believe i can do it!

I have around a £700 budget to build a PC i want to use the PC for gaming Mainly to play football manager 2013 or 2014 when it is released comfortably as now i can only load about 2 leagues and it is slow as hell! ill also play some other games online mainly RPG games, I need everything as im starting from scratch (dont include monitor, mouse or keyboard in the £700)

Any help would be appreciated thanks a lot guys and girls

 

[mickyflinn]

This is a non overclocking build, drop the ssd to bring it within budget if you cant stretch..


YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £161.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4570 3.20GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x Gigabyte H87-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £80.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX) £53.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard III Gaming Case - Black £27.95
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £777.96 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 

[Potty27]

You forgot the ram mate

 

[Potty27]

AMD build:

YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £161.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £721.86 (includes shipping : FREE).

 

[mickyflinn]

You forgot the ram mate

Tx the new baby is keeping me awake at night.

 

[Potty27]

Rather you than me mate

 

[DaleTheWhale]

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Hmmm.

As plausible as it is, a better solution would be. Try the 3 month W8.1 trial and use that time to save/decide on a OS.

 

[BennyLava1]

really like the look of the AMD build will probablly go for that, Thanks Potty

 

[liverpool199]

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Or try the 90 day windows 8 enterprise evaluation edition to see if you like it.
beaten to it ......

 

[teppic]

I'd replace the RAM in potty's build with this, it's a bit better:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-PA

 

[Potty27]

It is better, not sure if it's £4 better though, hardly any useful deals on ram this week it seems.

 

[teppic]

C11 to C9 is quite a big improvement in latency, definitely worth the £4.

 

[Potty27]

Seem to be conflicting views on timings, as when I was recommending people to pay £2 extra for C9 over C11 I was shot down

Your probably right, I chose that ram to keep closer to the budget set.

 

[Potty27]

Could double the HDD capacity for £10 more too, if he/she needs the extra space.

 

[teppic]

Well whoever told you that is wrong

 

[BennyLava1]

probablly a stupid question here but would this be wireless? as i would prefer it to be wireless if possible,

Thanks again

 

[teppic]

You'd just need to add a wifi PCI-E card or USB adapter.