New gaming rig please

ALEXZ360 · 16 Jul 2015 at 14:31

Good afternoon everyone, i'm currently looking to build a new gaming tower.

i have up to around £1600 to spend, this does not need to include a monitor however please feel free to suggest a monitor

don't worry about peripherals as i will sort those out myself

i am currently playing ARMA3 with mods so something that could handle that with decent frames would be amazing

Preferably would want an Intel CPU but open to an AMD if your argument is good enough

Thanks Alex

DaleTheWhale · 16 Jul 2015 at 14:41

With a £1600 budget, they'd be no reason to go AMD at all!

What monitor would you like, 1440? 144hz? G-Sync? 4k?

ALEXZ360 · 16 Jul 2015 at 14:55

i'm to clued up on monitors if i'm honest, currently have a LG W2261VP

~>Dg<~ · 16 Jul 2015 at 14:56

defintely go to 144hz if you can.

dacads · 16 Jul 2015 at 15:34

Gone on a bit of a frantic Fractal frenzy

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980Ti G1 Gaming 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £589.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Samsung SM951 512GB M.2 PCI-e Gen3 8Gbps x 4 Solid State Drive (MZHPV512HDGL-00000) £259.99
1 x Asus Maximus VII Ranger Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £135.95
1 x Fractal Design Newton R3 800W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x Fractal Design Define R5 Midi Tower Case - White Window £89.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Black CPU Cooler £39.95
Total : £1,579.98 (includes shipping : £13.50 Ex.VAT).

ALEXZ360 · 16 Jul 2015 at 19:06

so i have decided to up my budget to 1800, i came up with this one myself,

Your Basket
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980Ti G1 Gaming 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £589.99
1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K)£319.99
1 x Asus X99-S Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £224.99
1 x Seagate NAS 4TB 5900RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST4000VN000) NAS HDD £128.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16QC01)£119.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black £119.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £114.95
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU) £89.99
1 x OcUK Tech Labs 240mm+ Extreme CPU Liquid Cooling Upgrade Bundle £62.83
1 x Pioneer BDC-207DBK 8x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM) £34.99
Total Inc VAT: £1,828.39

Please feel free to comment and/or make suggestions on it

dacads · 16 Jul 2015 at 20:54

Is that HDD necessary?

Also you could save some money by going with the following bundle that has the same CPU and mobo you listed:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-022-AS&groupid=2833&catid=2836

ALEXZ360 · 16 Jul 2015 at 22:02

i currently have a 2TB HDD and it only has 101GB free at the minute so i thought i would play it safe and got for a 4TB HDD

Thanks for the CPU & MOBO bundle, i didn't spot that

dacads · 17 Jul 2015 at 11:17

Well it's not the quickest HDD around and not necessary if you won't be using a NAS. If that is the case I would go with a Seagate 4TB, or alternatively the Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB.

ALEXZ360 · 18 Jul 2015 at 02:50

Ahhh my mistake i didn't even realise it was a NAS HDD