Spec Me Up! Gaming System (£1000)

Tunnix

Tunnix

Tunnix

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It's time to bite the bullet and put my money where my mouth is. I've been umming and ahhing for too long now.

I have £1000 give or take. I'm looking for an awesome gaming system that will also be good for lite video / sound editing. I'd also like to be able to record game footage without dropping too much FPS (is this GFX or CPU usage?).

Ideally the system will have;

- i7 CPU
- R9 GFX or better
- 500gb SSD
- Water cooled heatsink

A neat looking case won't go a miss too!

Thanks in advance!
 
Do you need an OS? Any peripherals at all i.e. monitor, keyboard/mouse?
Also does the system need to be silent for the sound editing?
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£35 Saving** £365.98
1 x XFX Radeon R9 290 DD 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-290A-EDFD) £229.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11T3K2/16) £129.95
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Silverstone Tundra Series TD02 Liquid CPU Cooler £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £61.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
Total : £1,082.78 - £20 (GPU) - £12.50 (shipping) = £1050.28 (includes shipping : £12.50).



16GB fast RAM for your video editing, and an i7 to join it
Free shipping - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18630207
£20 off GPU - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18631947
Gigabyte motherboard upgrade program - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18631511
 
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Nvidia GTX970 is not only generally faster it uses less power and makes less heat.

But it also has Shadowplay so you can record 20mins of your games with little impact on system performance - http://www.geforce.co.uk/geforce-experience/shadowplay

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £257.99
1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-90101-10P) £251.99
1 x Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter CT512MX100SSD1) £154.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11T3K2/16) £129.95
1 x Silverstone Enthusiast Bundle - Tundra TD02 Liquid CPU Cooler & Redline SST-RL04B Midi-Tower USB 3.0 Gaming Tower £89.90
- 1 x No Power Supply Required £0.00
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £61.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
Total : £1,082.89 (includes shipping : £11.75).



i7+16GB of RAM

Included a nice 500GB SSD for you like you asked.

£1068 with free shipping if you live in the right area,

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18630207
Free shipping applies to destinations within mainland UK only and excludes Highlands and Islands
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Thanks guys - These look great!

If I'm looking at the GTX 970 - Is it worth upgrading to the 980 - Is there going to be much of a difference?

Thanks again
 
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Tunnix said:
Thanks guys - These look great!

If I'm looking at the GTX 970 - Is it worth upgrading to the 980? Doesn't seem to be any difference in price at the moment? - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-071-ZT

Thanks again
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The cheapest GTX980 is £150 more,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 980 "Herculez X3 Ultra" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N98V-1SDN-M5DNX) £399.95
Total : £409.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).



A GTX970 will not struggle even at 1440P resolutions:cool:

GTX970 vs GTX980 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1355?vs=1351
 
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