Sold ps4 now need to join the master race with £750

GloryBoyTom · 17 Feb 2014 at 21:02

I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse but need a OS
I play bf4 and it would be nice if I could run it better than my ps4 did

I also would like to play wow but surely anything can play that. Any help would be greatly received, it's been 10+ years since I last built a pc but surely not much has changed?

Fulax · 17 Feb 2014 at 21:25

Welcome

So, I'm slightly over budget here (slightly more as you'll have to pay for shipping). But you do get an Intel CPU for that money, and a 280X. WoW needs good single core performance, and that's what you get with Intel over AMD.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - FREE Alpenfohn Civetta Cooler!! £86.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £65.99
1 x Corsair Graphite Series 230T Compact Mid Tower Case (CC-9011036-WW) £57.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £757.87 (includes shipping : FREE).

You can use a three-month free trial of Windows 8.1 for the time being. I did that when I was building my rig and it works a treat - no strings attached.

GloryBoyTom · 17 Feb 2014 at 22:16

Is intel the processor to go with these days? When I last knocked up a pc it was amd that every gamer went for.

Fulax · 17 Feb 2014 at 22:26

Yup, Intel CPUs are the ones to get for gaming - if you can fit one into your budget. AMD's alternatives have more cores, but games don't really utilise them and Intel has better performance per core.

I can do you an AMD spec if you want, for the sake of comparison?

GloryBoyTom · 17 Feb 2014 at 22:30

Yeah sounds good

Fulax · 17 Feb 2014 at 22:35

A little cheaper. You'll also be able to overclock the CPU a bit with that cooler. If you won't be overclocking you could save £15 or so by getting a cheaper cooler. If you won't be overclocking and don't mind a bit of noise (by which I mean quite a lot of noise) you could save £30 by just using the stock cooler.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £65.99
1 x Corsair Graphite Series 230T Compact Mid Tower Case (CC-9011036-WW) £57.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £732.86 (includes shipping : FREE).

GloryBoyTom · 17 Feb 2014 at 22:45

Many thanks, I think the intel build looks very nice and the more I read about the i5 the better it seems over the amd.

fantasticCG · 17 Feb 2014 at 23:24

Welcome to the master race, you'll never go back to consoles