New Intel Build £800 Budget ( Advice )

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Ok guys - I have a tall order and I am wondering if you can keep me under budget as I keep going about £100 over budget.

Looking for an Intel Rig Preferably a 4690k or at least an i5 haswell.
GFX Card would preferably be a 4gb gtx 960.

So all that's needed is a case that 'does the job' a power supply - I was thinking a 600w corsair builder? and a motherboard but all I can ever put in my basket is the Gaming 5 MSI board and some ram of course. The ram i was thinking 16gb of Team Elite at 1800.

Anyone want to pipe in with a basket?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £808.18
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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Few parts aren't in stock at the minute but we can change those around a little. Anybody got any changes they could make?

This is PRIMARILY for 1080p gaming and some streaming.
 
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Some thoughts:

The Asus Strix 970 is (arguably) on a par with the MSI Gaming 970, same warranty, and is cheaper just now.

For PSU I would go with the superior Seasonic-built EVGA GS 550W. Just a few more pounds there. And you gain (at least) two extra years warranty at the same time.

And I would go for a 250GB SSD at least, to stick your favourite games on. It's also considerably greater value for money (per GB).

Maybe swap motherboard for a Z170, in case you want to add an overclocking Skylake (or Skylake II or whatever they are called coming up this year) chip in future.

Nicer looking RAM, same price.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £809.12
(includes shipping: £13.20)
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Antec Edge 550W is cheaper than the EVGA GS and it is also a Seasonic made unit.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £75.49
(includes shipping: £10.50)
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The R9 390 is also a cheaper option if you don't mind an AMD card.

Just be careful with gpu choice with the Bitfenix Nova as the max card height is listed as 140mm.
 
lee32uk said:
Antec Edge 550W is cheaper than the EVGA GS and it is also a Seasonic made unit.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £75.49
(includes shipping: £10.50)
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The R9 390 is also a cheaper option if you don't mind an AMD card.

Just be careful with gpu choice with the Bitfenix Nova as the max card height is listed as 140mm.
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Cheers for the headsup on that PSU didn't realise it was a seasonic build.
Unfortunately it's a no to the AMD Card set. Nvidia through and through.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £826.62
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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Ok to save £20 i could go to the 2.7ghz 6400 and drop to a 120gb SSD. I run 2 lan rigs with 120gb SSD's perfectly fine. So there's 2 costs to lower it down nicely.
 
McGraw said:
Can you not do without the mech drive for now so you can get the 6600k?
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6400 should OC to same speed - he's got a good board.

If anything, I'd drop the mechanical drive all together and get 250 or 500gb SSD instead. If he doesn't store thousands of movies/footage on HDD then there is no point to have one and the 250 SSD will be good enough to store quite a few games. Always can add one later on, maybe get a 2nd hand for £15 somewhere.

@OP what kind of games would you be playing / streaming? Would you do with a lower spec or 2gb GPU? 1080p isn't exactly demanding.

I would also consider throwing £20-30 extra on a better case - it's really worth it if you ever decide to push OC, get extra GPU or add more HDDs in the future. It's not that much to squeeze extra and is a good idea in the long run.

Also, do you need 16GB ram? 8GB is more than sufficient and you can always add another set later if really required.
 
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My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £764.00
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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Here's the final rundown on parts - I have £800 to include postage and case - Anything anybody can recommend? I'm sure an extra few quid can be put up. Or is there anything I can change?
 
Spec is missing SSD and CPU cooler (6600K does not bring heatsink). If you're getting these elsewhere, ignore.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £855.39
(includes shipping: £12.60)
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Bear in mind the total is higher as it includes the case, cooler and SSD. And notice that the motherboard + RAM bundle (plus the extra 8GB RAM) saves £20+ compared to the equivalent in your spec. The Gigabyte Gaming K3 also seems to be a level up in quality.

Changed GPU to a cheaper model, can still be cheaper if you want a Zotac for example. However, the support for Asus (now handled speedily through OcUK) or Gigabyte (with a UK base) should be very good.

Trimming the RAM to just 8GB would get it closer to £800 for now. I would definitely not dream of doing without an SSD for this build.
 
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Danny75 said:
Spec is missing SSD and CPU cooler (6600K does not bring heatsink). If you're getting these elsewhere, ignore.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £855.39
(includes shipping: £12.60)
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Bear in mind the total is higher as it includes the case, cooler and SSD. And notice that the motherboard + RAM bundle (plus the extra 8GB RAM) saves £20+ compared to the equivalent in your spec. The Gigabyte Gaming K3 also seems to be a level up in quality.

Changed GPU to a cheaper model, can still be cheaper if you want a Zotac for example. However, the support for Asus (now handled speedily through OcUK) or Gigabyte (with a UK base) should be very good.

Trimming the RAM to just 8GB would get it closer to £800 for now. I would definitely not dream of doing without an SSD for this build.
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I did have a spare CPU cooler - But when i saw that Antec for sub £40 well the build changed.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £769.41
(includes shipping: £12.60)
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And there she is - the final build is done. Would prefer 16gb of RAM but I can add that at a later date. Case is perfect and that bundle I missed due to how long this post has been active. So everything is in the basket and about to be paid for. SSD Size is low I know. But for a windows OS and my main programs that is sufficient. 1tb will house the steam games. Much appreciated advice from everyone on here as usual :)
 
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