New build ~£800 budget

[Jordan912]

Hi all looking for some recommendations speccing a new machine. Looking to spend around £800, don't need to include the OS or monitors as those are already sorted. Play a lot of games and also run virtual machines. Also looking to save money on anything that is unnecessary. Thanks for the help.

 

[ExRayTed]

Went for an AMD setup as the extra cores will help with the VMs. Extra RAM will help but 16gb is out of your price range unless you compromise a bit on the GPU. You could step down to a 270X which is a capable card and get 16gb, it's up to you.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 280X iPower IceQ X2 Boost 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £245.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £110.99
1 x Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £103.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 620W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £62.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £43.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
Total : £799.90 (includes shipping : FREE).

 

[Idleman]

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 280X iPower IceQ X2 Boost 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £245.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £110.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £75.95
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £65.99
1 x BitFenix Shadow Tower Case - Midnight Black £54.98
1 x Kingston HyperX NA'VI 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit **OcUK Exclusive** (KHX16C9C2K2/8) £49.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 90 Day Guarantee £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.95
Total : £757.81 (includes shipping : FREE).

 

[Freddie1980]

I was looking at a build for a similar price point and I came back with almost the same parts as the first suggestion above, the only difference was I went with a gtx 760 and a Bitfinix shenobi (sp?) case but it inculded windows 8.1