Spec me up to £1400

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Arthaei

Arthaei

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Hey guys I'm considering a new build, I need a new monitor too, don't really want to spend more than 1.5k for the machine, want a good quality 27inch 1080p screen for gaming. Will primarily be playing BF4 and Wow. Video editing too so some fast 16gb ram I think. 250gb ssd as main and 2tb for vids and music. I've already got an Antec 1200 case I could strip and use I think? (it's pretty big).

Also would there be an oc build close to this. I've never built my own machine, wouldn't know where to begin!

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
Is the budget £1400 (as in the title) or £1500 (as in the post)? And does this include the monitor?

Here's a build for £1500. You'd have to sacrifice either performance or storage space to get it down to £1400, and even more if you want a pre-built for that price. Putting a PC together is pretty easy. There are plenty of guide videos out there (look for Newegg's on Youtube). And if you can take a PC apart, you'll be able to put one together.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X "BF4 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-00-50G) £379.99
1 x BenQ XL2411T Rev2.0 24" TRUE 144Hz Flicker FREE 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £289.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £107.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
2 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99 (£111.98)
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
Total : £1,501.28 (includes shipping : £17.85).



I've put a 24" monitor in there as 27" is apparently too big for 1080p; you lose a bit of image quality. It's 144hz, though, which is good for fast-paced games like Battlefield 4.
 
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I had a go at it too. From what I can make out, the monitor's budget is outside of the budget you stated (correct me if I'm wrong) so the basket contains an Intel 2011 six-core, which should be even better for video editing:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel 4930K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM (CM8063301292702) £429.95
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x OC Rev2.0 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N780OC-3GD) £399.95
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £154.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £149.99
1 x Seasonic G series 650w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.95
1 x Intel Liquid Cooling Solution - TS13X High Performance CPU Cooler £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
2 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99 (£119.98)
Total : £1,514.88 (includes shipping : £11.75).



The Antec 1200 limits what kind of cooler you can have... although I've read a H100i (240mm rad) can be mounted in the front. Unless certain that the hoses/pump can reach the CPU socket comfortably from the front position, I'd go for something like the smaller Intel cooler in the basket above, which will fit in the rear fan mount/s. If it doesn't fit sideways (leaving room for one of the two rear fans), then it should fit vertically (by removing both rear fans). And it brings a blue led fan to match those on your case (if it's the one with blue led fans), along with a blue led logo on the pump.
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 780 Phantom GLH 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x BenQ EW2740L 27" Widescreen LED Professional Monitor - Black £221.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £152.99
1 x Seasonic G series 750w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £109.99
1 x Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT240M500SSD1) £109.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £59.99
2 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99 (£111.98)
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,485.23 (includes shipping : £17.85).

 
Fulax said:
Is the budget £1400 (as in the title) or £1500 (as in the post)? And does this include the monitor?

Here's a build for £1500. You'd have to sacrifice either performance or storage space to get it down to £1400, and even more if you want a pre-built for that price. Putting a PC together is pretty easy. There are plenty of guide videos out there (look for Newegg's on Youtube). And if you can take a PC apart, you'll be able to put one together.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X "BF4 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-00-50G) £379.99
1 x BenQ XL2411T Rev2.0 24" TRUE 144Hz Flicker FREE 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £289.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £107.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
2 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99 (£111.98)
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
Total : £1,501.28 (includes shipping : £17.85).



I've put a 24" monitor in there as 27" is apparently too big for 1080p; you lose a bit of image quality. It's 144hz, though, which is good for fast-paced games like Battlefield 4.
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I would go with this spec :) Very good quality.
 
Thanks for the advice, if I wanted one of the build's mentioned, would someone at Overclockers be able to build it for me, or is this something I would have to do myself? I'd ideally like to have it specced with 16gb ram for video editing and also have the processor up to 4.4-4.ghz. Cheers

p.s. Is the graphics card as good as the R9290x? I don't mind paying extra to get a better card. Thanks
 
They could build it for you, yes. Contact OcUK's customer service and they'll tell you more.

The 290 is like 5% slower than the 290X and £120 cheaper. It's not worth compromising elsewhere to squeeze a 290X into your budget.
 
RJC said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 780 Phantom GLH 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x BenQ EW2740L 27" Widescreen LED Professional Monitor - Black £221.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £152.99
1 x Seasonic G series 750w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £109.99
1 x Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT240M500SSD1) £109.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £59.99
2 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99 (£111.98)
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,485.23 (includes shipping : £17.85).

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Maybe the sapphire 290 tri-x instead to colour coordinate? Put the £20 saving towards a bigger psu to give option for xfire should you desire, if no plan for multi GPU maybe put the saved money elsewhere or leave in the bank.
 
Hi guys, I finally nearly have the money together for this build. I am thinking of the future, with possibly adding a second card for sli/crossfire at a later date, would anyone be able to tweak this setup to include an applicable psu that would handle 2 cards. Also I really want 16gb of fast ram as I'll be doing video editing. I'm also doing a blue theme in my room here at home, so any blue stylings would be marvelous!

Also, how are things regarding Mantle and BF4? is a 780 still a cracking card or is there a real advantage still for getting an amd gpu? - also, I spotted 2 new builds OC are offering, this one seems very close to what I was looking for, what do you think?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-010-OG&groupid=43&catid=2475

Cheers
 
Don't think mantle has progressed all that far, I'd go for the 780 but I'm an nvidia fan-boy D: Still, the R9 290 is a very very good card, just wouldn't get one for myself
 
If you can buy it today, the MSI 290 Gaming at £330 is a great deal, as is the Sapphire 290 Tri-X at £366. As much as I love my 780, I'd go for one of them if I was choosing a GPU today.

Some PSU options for SLI/Crossfire:

YOUR BASKET
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 1000W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £161.99
1 x Corsair RM Series RM 850 '80+ Gold' 850W Power Supply (CP-9020056-UK) £129.95
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £129.95
Total : £431.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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