system build

theroadblock · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:19

Hi everyone, new to the forum after a friend recommended I come here.

I know you guys probably get this everyday and I apologise in advance, but I'm looking for a little help with speccing myself a new desktop.

The last time I built myself a desktop the ATI radeon 5850 had just come out so it's been a while lol, and I'm a bit out of touch with what's good and what's tat.

Long story short I bought a dell xps lappy for portability, and now need to get back to a real pc...

Budget is £600ish can go a little more if needed,
I play games like WoW, bioshock infinite, and diablo 3.

Thanks for your time

Paul

tamzzy · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:24

what do you have that you could (possibly) recycle?

theroadblock · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:27

Don't have any of my old desktop parts anymore unfortunately, but I do have a new tower sitting in my loft because I was going to venture into this last year. Unless I could use my second hdd from my lappy which currently isn't installed (500gb)?

stulid · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:30

A new tower as in a new case?

if so what is it? as that maybe able to be reused and decide what parts fit inside.

What do you need for £600? OS/monitor, keyboard+mouse etc?

theroadblock · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:32

It's a zalman z9+ just the case no psu

stulid · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:33

theroadblock said:
It's a zalman z9+ just the case no psu

Good, keep that.

I added some questions above.

theroadblock · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:36

Just need the tower and components as have monitor,keyboard,mouse, speakers ect. And have os disc so don't need that.

stulid · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:39

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £605.53 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Hopefully use your laptop HDD as a storage drive.

theroadblock · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:41

Nice one! Thanks for the help and yea could use the other spare hdd as a backup drive perhaps

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stulid · 27 Oct 2014 at 10:47

If you want to tart it up a bit,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N770OC-2GD) £169.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Avexir Gold Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331104G-2CEY) - Yellow/Gold Light £65.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £19.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £651.53 (includes shipping : £8.00).