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[The1nonly1]

Hi, looking at building a gaming pc. I have put this together and my budget is £600. For now, I have included a graphics card but I won't need it straight away but still want it included within budget. Would it work?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Cougar MX200 Midi-Tower Gaming Case - Black= £23.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6500 3.20GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £169.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £99.95
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 970 TURBO OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £209.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FBK2/8)= £29.99
• 1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020060-UK)= £66.95
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £38.99

Total: £639.85
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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To bring the price down to £625, I could go with this instead: H170M-E D3 Intel H170 (Socket 1151) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard

I want it to play Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 1 when it comes out. This is why the graphics card isn't needed for now.

 

[StarShock]

You'd be better off keeping the Z170 mother board and swapping out to an i3 6100, for gaming you'll get very similar performance and it will making upgrading easier down the line. Also there are better PSUs for slightly cheaper, and if possible its worth trying to fit an SSD in, something like this:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2= £47.99
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £59.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £99.95

Total: £218.43
(includes shipping: £10.50)
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[The1nonly1]

That looks good thanks. If the i3 can run newish games, it would be better and save money.