Spec me a PC

[spope78]

evening,

Long time shopper, 1st time poster so go easy if I've missed anything important off of this post.

Anyway normally I just buy budget PCs from Ebay but this time I'd like to build my own. I just don't really know where to start.

The basic requirements, I'm an Eve Online player and need to be able to run 3 accounts concurrently, I do this at the moment spread over 2 Dell Optiplex 330s with some £20 1gb graphic cards but I'd like to move over to just the one PC, this also means that I'm used to using 4 monitors and I'd like to keep this arrangement too if possible.

My budget is £800-£1000 but that's a very hard ceiling, the wife has spoken.

I have all the peripherals and s/ware so this is for the base unit only.

So, What can you suggest?

Thanks in advance

Stuart

 

[ShivP]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 780 Phantom GLH 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard with *FREE COOLERMASTER SEIDON 120V COOLER £163.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
Total : £923.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).




This only has one GPU however, no case as this is a personal touch I'm not 100% whether these cards can output to 4 monitors, as far as I'm aware they are only capable of 3

 

[spope78]

Excellent, thanks. I had tried to play about with some builds based on other requests on these boards, I got as far as this and then realised I had no idea if any of it was compatible etc so thought I should ask

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £379.99
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 £86.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £79.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £73.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.99
1 x Akasa AK-CC4013EP01 Nero 3 V2 Premier CPU Cooler £25.99
Total : £999.47 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[The Matrix]

I would go for the Samsung 120GB EVO SSD ahead of the Kingston, its cheaper if you shop around.

I would also go for a better cooler, this one is only £15 more and its an excellent air cooler

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-013-PT

It comes in Blue, black or red and you can get it cheaper if you shop around, im sure OCUK would price match for you.

 

[lee32uk]

I would go for the Samsung 120GB EVO SSD ahead of the Kingston, its cheaper if you shop around.

I would also go for a better cooler, this one is only £15 more and its an excellent air cooler

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-013-PT

It comes in Blue, black or red and you can get it cheaper if you shop around, im sure OCUK would price match for you.

If you are spending that sort of money then the K2 would be a better choice.