New gaming PC help please

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Potent Cheese

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Hey guys, I'm looking to buy a gaming pc but I'm not really sure of what i need and how much i need to spend. I've currently got about £700 saved but I'm willing to wait and save a bit more if it would make a big difference. It would be used pretty much only for gaming (games like BF4, ARMA3, DayZ) and i want to be able to play these games with nice graphics at a good FPS.
Is £800 enough to achieve this or should i save a little more? Any suggested builds would also be great.
Thanks in advance.
 
Hi and welcome to the forum.

Do you need a monitor, operating system? Keyboard, mouse, headset. How much storage do you think you'll need to begin with? Would a 250GB SSD do for starters (it will be fine for those three games you mentioned plus OS and some programs and you'll still have roughly 100GB to spare), then add more if needed down the road?
 
A friend can give me a monitor, keyboard and mouse until i save up a bit to get them later so the only thing i really need is an OS. Not too fussed about storage for now i can add that later as i need it.
 
Well ive come up with this,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-90101-10P) £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £42.95
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £848.92 (includes shipping : £11.75).



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Or a bit cheaper,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £227.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £23.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £19.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £773.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).





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So what storage have you got if you're not fussed by it?
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £227.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £23.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £833.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Thats basically £800 after the offers.

Too much?
 
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