New build - HELP

rorilogan

rorilogan

rorilogan

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Hi all,

Looking to start a fresh PC build!

I need some help from all you wonderful people.
I'm just going to be gaming mostly on it, so I'm gonna need something relatively decent.

Budget would be at around £500-£600...give or take.

Already got monitors and all the extras sorted, just need the build.

Any help is greatly appreciated!:D

Thanks
 
abdidas said:
Well for starters you can tell us what components you planning to keep.
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I don't have a great technical background so I'm not sure what it is what's slowing me down at the moment. That's why I've got the other thread to go through the upgrade process.

However, this is just a straight up new build.:)
 
 
abdidas said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £665.85
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Hi Abdidas,

Thanks for your help.

If possible, what components could i keep out of the following to merge into this new build?

1GB XFX Radeon HD 7770
Intel Pentium G860, Socket 1155, Dual Core, 3.00GHz
LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±R
Fractal Design Core 1000
CORSAIR CX500
MSI H61M-P31 (G3) Motherboard
HyperX Fury Black Series 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM Desktop Memory
500GB Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm
Windows 10 64-bit

Thanks:eek:
 
rorilogan said:
Hi Abdidas,

Thanks for your help.

If possible, what components could i keep out of the following to merge into this new build?

1GB XFX Radeon HD 7770
Intel Pentium G860, Socket 1155, Dual Core, 3.00GHz
LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±R
Fractal Design Core 1000
CORSAIR CX500
MSI H61M-P31 (G3) Motherboard
HyperX Fury Black Series 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM Desktop Memory
500GB Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm
Windows 10 64-bit

Thanks:eek:
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LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±R
Fractal Design Core 1000 (with a micro-ATX motherboard instead of ATX, e.g. this one)
CORSAIR CX500
500GB Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm
Windows 10 64-bit

Might as well stretch a bit more and get yourself the 6600K + a cooler, along with a better GTX 970. And look to replace the PSU for something better within the next year or so. Don't get another CX.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £702.86
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Danny75 said:
LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±R
Fractal Design Core 1000 (with a micro-ATX motherboard instead of ATX, e.g. this one)
CORSAIR CX500
500GB Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm
Windows 10 64-bit

Might as well stretch a bit more and get yourself the 6600K + a cooler, along with a better GTX 970. And look to replace the PSU for something better within the next year or so. Don't get another CX.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £702.86
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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I think i'll be going with this build. Just ordered the SSD and will be slowing buying all the parts throughout the course of the year.

Thanks very much Danny and all others!
 
rorilogan said:
Hi All,

Will the GTX 970 fit in my case without blocking any other ports?

thanks
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Which ports are you thinking of?

According to the specs, up to 350mm length GPU can be fitted with just one 3.5" HDD installed in the case (e.g. your 500GB Seagate). Plus a 2.5" SSD (the Fury). Other SSD's could be added too, just have to be a little creative - they don't really need to go in bays.

Can also make use of the Optical Bays (2) to mount more 3.5" HDD's, with 5.25"-to-3.5" adapters (some of these adapters allow for 1 x 3.5" HDD + 1 x 2.5" SSD in each Optical Bay).
 
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You should also consider the AMD R9 390 card if your spending £250 - 300 on a GPU. Similar performance as the GTX 970 but twice the memory at 8GB which is likely to make it a bit more future proof.
 
If you're just gaming, you don't need a 6600K and you don't need that CPU cooler or that board. You can go to an H board and get a non K i5 and ditch the cooler and use the money to get a 1TB SSD and return the small one you have already.

DO NOT BUY your graphics card yet. Polaris is coming soon from AMD and Pascal from NVidia. They will be quantum leap type improvements in performance per watt and transistors per die most likely yielding a MASSIVE generational jump in performance that has not been seen in a decade to be perfectly honest with you.

Also, ZEN is coming, which is AMD's new CPU architecture. They are promising instructions per clock on par with Intel's Skylake with more cores for the same money which sounds like a winner. Also, AMD charges a lot less than Intel for it's chipsets which yields much cheaper boards.

Don't buy anything else is my advice until Zen Polaris and Pascal are out.
 
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