New Build for a gaming friend.

Karateyid · 1 Oct 2015 at 12:02

A gaming friend of mine wants to replace his 4 yr old rig. He has a budget of £1200 and requires Board/CPU/RAM/GPU/Case/PSU and possibly OS (waiting to find out if the Win 7 on his current rig is retail or OEM.)

He only uses his rig for gaming mainly playing Eve-online, Arma 3 , BF4, World of Warships and a few other titles.

He's ideally wanting the rig to last as long as his existing rig... Show me what beasts you can create

Many thanks in advance.

mickyflinn · 1 Oct 2015 at 12:16

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 980Ti "Infin8 Black Edition" 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £489.95
1 x Gigabyte X99-SLI - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***50 Saving*** £429.98
1 x XFX XTR 750W '80 Plus Gold' Fully Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16QC01) £79.99
1 x Corsair Graphite Series 230T Compact Mid Tower Case Windowed - Black (CC-9011042-WW) £67.99
Total : £1,172.90 (includes shipping : £12.50 Ex.VAT).

Ethermaster · 1 Oct 2015 at 12:40

Sorry I couldn't help myself :$

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 980Ti "Reference Design" 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £529.99
1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail £319.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170X Sniper Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x BeQuiet Straight Power 10 700W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £108.95
1 x NZXT H440 Midi-Tower - Black / Green £89.99
1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/16) £79.99
1 x CableMod B-Series SP 10-CM Cable Kit - Green £69.95
1 x Raijintek Triton AIO Water Cooling Solution £69.95
2 x Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (SHFS37A/240G) £68.99 (£137.98)
6 x Alpenfhn 120mm Wing Boost 2 Plus PWM fan - Green £8.45 (£50.70)
Total : £1,593.96 (includes shipping : £13.75 Ex.VAT).

neiljwd · 1 Oct 2015 at 12:45

Raijintek Triton AIO Water Cooling Solution

That's really quite cool. I love the fact one can change the dye in it if one wished and give your build a complete face lift.

Ethermaster · 1 Oct 2015 at 12:47

Yeah the rig above specced by me was a themed build, all in lovely Nvidia green

Kurgen · 1 Oct 2015 at 13:37

Karateyid said:
A gaming friend of mine wants to replace his 4 yr old rig. He has a budget of £1200 and requires Board/CPU/RAM/GPU/Case/PSU and possibly OS (waiting to find out if the Win 7 on his current rig is retail or OEM.)

He only uses his rig for gaming mainly playing Eve-online, Arma 3 , BF4, World of Warships and a few other titles.

He's ideally wanting the rig to last as long as his existing rig... Show me what beasts you can create

Many thanks in advance.

It doesn't matter if its oem or retail. move the win 7 to the new build. if it fails activation , do the phone line activation (which always works unless you answer I have it installed on 17 pcs) then upgrade to windows 10

I have done this on a couple of systems

Karateyid · 1 Oct 2015 at 13:38

Nice builds.. is there any reason to go I7 over I5 as he only games ?? Also is it personal preference for NVidia over AMD ?? 980 v 390X ??

ci_newman · 1 Oct 2015 at 14:06

Since the old PC is only 4 years old, can anything be recycled? (e.g. PSU, HDD, SSD)

slake7 · 1 Oct 2015 at 14:10

Will he be building the PC himself?

Or does he want it pre-built?

Karateyid · 1 Oct 2015 at 14:30

I'll probably be building it for him. Waiting for him to come back to me on PSU and HDD reusing but likely will be a full refresh and the existing rig given to his kids.

slake7 · 1 Oct 2015 at 15:10

You'd need to use the CD-ROM from the current setup to install Win7.

Think everything is included.

Karateyid · 2 Oct 2015 at 08:21

Was thinking about creating a USB Boot Win 7 install and using that instead of the DVD-ROM drive.. at a push I could use a spare drive I have lying round..

Looks like he's going for an X99 build, 16GB Ram and a 970..

Quartz · 2 Oct 2015 at 10:22

If the build is only 4 years old, a new GPU and a SSD may suffice. Which CPU does he currently have?

Karateyid · 2 Oct 2015 at 11:45

Already advised him that a gpu n ssd would do the trick but he's insisting on new build while he has cash there for it.

McGraw · 2 Oct 2015 at 12:19

Spending 1200 you should surely be trying to make a 980ti fit in a pure gaming rig?

5960xNvidiaGamer · 2 Oct 2015 at 12:32

McGraw said:
Spending 1200 you should surely be trying to make a 980ti fit in a pure gaming rig?

This, 980ti has to be in there.

lee32uk · 19 Oct 2015 at 03:17

slake7 said:
You'd need to use the CD-ROM from the current setup to install Win7.

Think everything is included.

That Motherboard and cooler won't fit in the case.

olivier renault · 19 Oct 2015 at 11:53

What is his current build.

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (06G-P4-4995-KR) £529.99
1 x Gigabyte X99-SLI - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***50 Saving*** £441.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M4B3200C16) £129.95
1 x EVGA Supernova GS 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £76.99
1 x Noctua NH-D14-2011 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler with PWM Fans £64.99
Total : £1,253.51 (includes shipping : £8.00 Ex.VAT).

Dark Rock Pro 3 if he doesn't like the aesthetics of the Noctua.

Devil's Canyon would allow for an almost complete build. Else, GTX970.