Please Help With A £600 Build

PTKID · 19 Dec 2014 at 20:55

Hi All,

After toying with the idea of small form pc's for a while i decided i really dont mind something slightly bigger.

Would love some help building a £600 machine mainly for Blizzard Games.
I have been thinking i3 and gtx 750ti because of the low power usage and that is something i would like to keep going forward if possible>

The only cases im interested in are the Corsair Carbide 240 & 540, but if possible the smaller case would be best.

I also need os and if would like red components / cables etc to make it look kinda nice, but only if possible.

Any help with the spec would be very much appreciated.

Budget is £600.

Thanks

stulid · 19 Dec 2014 at 20:58

Hi,

So pc+os no keyboard etc?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270 TurboDUO 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £113.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £111.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow PC Case - Black (CC-9011070-WW) £70.99
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 Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
Total : £608.47 (includes shipping : £8.00).

PTKID · 19 Dec 2014 at 21:53

Yh I'm buying that myself. Is that build low powered, because I had that in mind.

How does the 270 compare to the EVGA GTX 750 TI FTW edition?

Wouldn't i3 be better?

Sorry haven't been up to date with all this in over 10 years.

stulid · 19 Dec 2014 at 21:56

The 270 is a faster card - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1130?vs=1080

The Pentium K can be overclocked with that Z97 board.

You can upgrade all the way to a i7 4790K if you want.

Do you know how you will put Win on to it? as there is not optical drive, so get an external one or copy the files to a USB stick and install from that.

P.S free shipping - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18630207

PTKID · 19 Dec 2014 at 22:04

I wasn't really thinking about OC that's why I thought of an i3 since most blizzard games only utilise 2 cores anyway.

Apart from that everything seems ok. Would an SSD be possible in the build? Also I was told to go Avexir as ram over Team Vulcan?

Last questing Superflow PSU any good? Never heard of them and I was initially thinking going Corsair.

stulid · 19 Dec 2014 at 22:08

Superflower are a huge maker, they do PSUs for EVGA for example.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270 TurboDUO 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £113.99
1 x Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow PC Case - Black (CC-9011070-WW) £70.99
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 Gigabyte B85M-DS3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £53.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
Total : £631.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

There is this RAM to save more - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-079-AR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1392

But as you can see its rated slower.

PTKID · 19 Dec 2014 at 22:15

Tiny bit over budget but I do get an SSD and i3. Going to have a good look at it and. A good think and will post later.

Thanks

stulid · 19 Dec 2014 at 22:16

This board looks a bit prettier - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-466-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2576

stulid · 19 Dec 2014 at 22:29

You might find if you look at the specs for the B85 boards that they only run upto 1600MHz RAM, so may as well get that Avexir kit.

jigger · 19 Dec 2014 at 23:13