please spec me a PC FOR £900

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Hi all im back again sorry for the mess around i did post before about getting a pc for around £650 but quite happy to say on my part i can increase it to £900 im looking for a pc with good i5 processor good tower good motherboard and a great sound card and LG bluray RW the system will be used mainly for films and music with very little gaming if any and the £900 includes the V.A,T and proberly to build many thanks any suggestions and help will be great my first system build :)
 
Well, here goes:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 4TB 5900RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST4000DM000) HDD £119.99
1 x Asus Xonar Essence STX Sound Card £109.99
1 x MSI Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87M-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x LG BH16NS40 16x SATA Internal BDRW - Retail £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £67.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/8X) £45.95
1 x Cooler Master N200 NSE-200-KWN1 Midi-Tower Windowed - Black £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter (TL-WN821NC) £11.95
Total : £904.72 (includes shipping : ).



The sound card is on offer this week with £15 off and has got some excellent reviews. The RAM is super cheap and is being specced a load at the moment for all kinds of builds. 4TB HDD mass storage for movies and 120GB of super speedy storage for your OS and essential software. Nice little case. A reasonably good air cooler for overclocking the 4670k should you so desire. LG BluRay burner. And I managed to just about squeeze in an R9 260x for if you fancy a little gaming down the line.

EDIT: You may decide don't need that much storage and/or such an expensive sound card. Also, you may not need the GPU at all if you don't plan on gaming and the 4670k integrated graphics is fine for most browser games. If that's the case, then you could get the build down to around 700.

OH WAIT! Do you need an OS? And do you need a monitor? If so I need to redo this mother!
 
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very nice i do have a grahpics card in me pc that im using at mo and its not very old i was thinking taking that grahics card off and maybe getting asus motherboard due to hearing some bad reviews on the gigabyte motherboards oh and i do need windows 7 64bit so maybe taking the hard drive to 2tb instead of 4 but im liking them options
 
no the rig will be set up to my samsung smart tv so no monitor needed i do have a 2tb external drive so the 4tb internal drive maybe to much i could take 2 gig off that drive and grahpics card wont be needed i have graphics card that i can transfer into the new build which would be enough what i would need
 
what are you going to be using the sound card for? are you just looking for surround sound or are you using it with specific audio software?
 
well ive just decorated my bedroom and ive just put up a 32inch samsung smart tv so i will be playing blurays from my drive and i love music so the soundcard will be for playing my music and for movies so it will be a theatre system and the wi fi would be good so i could play movies on me tv downstairs which is also a smart tv
 
I doubt you need such a high end sound card. If this rig is gonna be a theatre system why do you need the bluray burner? Also, Gigabyte mobos are generally well regarded on OcUK.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper M5 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £143.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99
1 x LG BH16NS40 16x SATA Internal BDRW - Retail £79.99
1 x BitFenix Phenom MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £74.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x Corsair RM Series RM 550 '80+ Gold' 550W Power Supply (CP-9020053-UK) £71.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/8X) £45.95
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter (TL-WN821NC) £11.95
Total : £894.77 (includes shipping : ).



  • Motherboard has excellent sound quality so no need for a sound card
  • 250GB SSD for OS and programs
  • Silent Power supply so the fan doesn't start till under load

Also what is the Graphics Card you have?
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £103.99
1 x LG BH16NS40 16x SATA Internal BDRW - Retail £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Aero Cool Dead Silence Gaming Black Mini Tower Windowed £72.95
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Asus A88XM-A AMD A88X Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/8X) £45.95
1 x TP-Link AV200+ Multi-Streaming Powerline Starter Kit with AC Pass Through (TL-PA251KIT) £39.95
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £39.95
Total : £708.14 (includes shipping : £17.85).

 
actually looking around and looking at processors AMD could be a good choice also does anybody have the
AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor looks a good processor as i might be looking into encoding blurays in the future that could be what i need
 
could someone please tell me if the AMD would be better over the intel for encoding blurays ive looked at the AMD piledriver and the reviews are excellent think its the £131.99 but intel offer so much more
 
nicknack35 said:
could someone please tell me if the AMD would be better over the intel for encoding blurays ive looked at the AMD piledriver and the reviews are excellent think its the £131.99 but intel offer so much more
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Can't say for certain how good the AMD chip is when video encoding. You need to find out what software you will be using, as some make use of the Gpu and Cyberlink, for example makes use of Intel Quick Sync.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i5-4670k-4670-4570-4430_6.html#sect0
 
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