New build advice please, newbie!

[ShivP]

Give me a couple of minutes and I'll spec you up - what is your total budget now?

 

[Allotmentman]

Give me a couple of minutes and I'll spec you up - what is your total budget now?

Sorry Shivy was collecting my wife from work. Well say my budget is £450 max. If I need a little extra tell me.

 

[ShivP]

Here we go...

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11220-00-20G) £113.99
1 x Intel Core i3-4150 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x EVGA 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0500-KR) £35.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower White/White £27.95
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
1 x TP-Link 150Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter (TL-WN727N) £5.48
1 x OcUK Tech Labs Zaward OEM 120mm Golf Ball Fan £2.59
Total : £470.04 (includes shipping : £11.75).



R9 270 and a mid-range i3!

 

[Allotmentman]

Shivy that's absolutely wonderful, thank you very much. So now I have a decent spec pc which can run games on higher setting and allows me to process big file photos. Next step is the build.......might need help on that too. Perhaps I can post pics of me doing it like your wonderful build.

Thank you all very much, what a super community!

 

[ShivP]

Go for it, it's really not hard to build a PC - just like lego lol

 

[scotsdragon]

Read the instructions!

 

[gerico]

That's gona be a nice build there sir

 

[Allotmentman]

Well as of this morning all of the parts have been ordered, the only change being the case which is still the same one but is now black and red as opposed to white but that's it. Wish me luck in the build. Whilst I appreciate I have been told it's easy I'll wait to judge if that's really the case. I have still yet to set up all of the systems and understand that in fact that's the trickiest bit. All parts arrive tomorrow so will post up a pic of it all. Postman is going to love me!

 

[ShivP]

Nice one - should be a nice little build!

 

[Doomedspeed]

Well as of this morning all of the parts have been ordered, the only change being the case which is still the same one but is now black and red as opposed to white but that's it. Wish me luck in the build. Whilst I appreciate I have been told it's easy I'll wait to judge if that's really the case. I have still yet to set up all of the systems and understand that in fact that's the trickiest bit. All parts arrive tomorrow so will post up a pic of it all. Postman is going to love me!

Best of luck.

These delivery people will be used to it one of our member gets (it seems) 4 of the newest GPU delivered on release day.. At least you aren't that bad.

Build wise each person has their own method, just figure out what you want to do and do it, don't do more than one thing at once.

The way I approach a build is like this:

1) Assemble Motherboard, CPU and RAM (outside of case)
2) Add air cooler (trust me this is much easier than doing it while in the case, attach the fan cables to the motherboard at this point too)
3) Put PSU, HDDs, ODs and SSDs in case and attach PSU cables to these and attach SATA cables (use the case tidying system).
4) Drop in your assembled motherboard and Connect PSU cables and case cables.
5) Drop in GPU, assemble to Case and attach PSU cables.

Though there is no definitive way.

We are here to help if/when you need us.

 

[Idleman]

Watch a few video tutorials whilst you are waiting for delivery.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...&mid=8EFCF960432F490BC7768EFCF960432F490BC776

 

[Allotmentman]

Best of luck.

These delivery people will be used to it one of our member gets (it seems) 4 of the newest GPU delivered on release day.. At least you aren't that bad.

Build wise each person has their own method, just figure out what you want to do and do it, don't do more than one thing at once.

The way I approach a build is like this:

1) Assemble Motherboard, CPU and RAM (outside of case)
2) Add air cooler (trust me this is much easier than doing it while in the case, attach the fan cables to the motherboard at this point too)
3) Put PSU, HDDs, ODs and SSDs in case and attach PSU cables to these and attach SATA cables (use the case tidying system).
4) Drop in your assembled motherboard and Connect PSU cables and case cables.
5) Drop in GPU, assemble to Case and attach PSU cables.

Though there is no definitive way.

We are here to help if/when you need us.

Great advice and it will be adhered to I promise. If anyone needs advice on cars or photography or in business I can reciprocate the help.

I'll keep you all posted!

 

[Doomedspeed]

If anyone needs advice on cars or photography or in business I can reciprocate the help.

Funny you should say that because I need to photograph a car for a business I am setting......



That's a lie.

Like I say just take your time.

Have fun and don't eat all the Haribo at once.

 

[Allotmentman]

Have fun and don't eat all the Haribo at once. [/QUOTE]

I'm Diabetic..........

 

[Allotmentman]

P.s If you want a laugh I doing this because my previous computer purchased in 2004'gave in just over a year ago; an Evesham Axis 64 MKR. I had great time on that discovering the Elder Scrolls series as well as Battlefield, Call of a Duty 2 and age of a empires 2, ahh those were the days.

 

[Allotmentman]

Ok so the parts didn't arrive today due to the motherboard being out of stock so I ordered the same one with a few more connecting points. Oc didn't let me know until I called and asked why my order was still showing as in a queue but alas the parts will be here tomorrow so I shall let you all know when they are. Have a lovely evening all.

 

[Allotmentman]

Hurrah, it has all arrived. Will post pics later, when I can work out how to!

 

[ShivP]

Upload to imgur, get the link for forum boards, make sure they are in large thumbnail mode though and copy and paste the link

 

[Allotmentman]

I'm almost finished building but I've put in two old DVD RW, Sony DWU18A but I can work out how to connect them to the motherboard. I have power for them but the old connectors don't seem to have a place, any ideas or have the cable ends changed?

 

[Allotmentman]

Ok I just learned that I don't have an IDE port! Pants.