System spec

[MrHappy]

Greetings one and all.

I am looking for some advice and opinions on the system I have come up with. The goal here is a moderate gaming system on a budget of £500 (which of course I have already gone past. Oh well.) with possible room for overclocking, increased memory and a blu ray drive down the line.

Here is the spec I come up with.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11220-00-20G) £134.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £131.99
1 x Asus Z87M-PLUS Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £94.99
1 x Aero Cool Dead Silence Gaming Black Mini Tower Windowed £72.95
1 x Corsair RM Series RM 450 '80+ Gold' 450W Power Supply (CP-9020066-WW) £65.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (1x8GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Channel Kit (HX313C9F/8) £59.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £55.99
Total : £630.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).



I already have a monitor, O/S and 2 1TB drives for storage. The other things to consider are space and noise as the machine will be living in a small bedroom. I went with the Aerocool DS case for both its size and noise reduction as from what I read it seems to tick a lot of the boxes I wanted. However, I have no direct experience with this brand.

Thoughts, opinions and suggestions are all gratefully received.

 

[MrHappy]

My thanks for your time and thoughts. Payday is nearly upon me and I will soon have my final budget to work with. One day I may be able to do this with out a need for working with limited space and with limited resources but for now I have some set things to work to and some things that can shuffle around.

Then there is that slippery slope... Ugh. Crampons attached and sticking in, lets try this.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11220-00-20G) £134.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Aero Cool Dead Silence Gaming Black Mini Tower Windowed £72.95
1 x Corsair RM Series RM 450 '80+ Gold' 450W Power Supply (CP-9020066-WW) £65.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard £49.99
Total : £550.40 (includes shipping : £17.10).

 

[MrHappy]

My skills with a Dremel are like my skills with Molecular Biology - non existent and I would probably create a monster if I tried.

I thought the size difference was far more noticeable. Now I have checked dimensions of the cases (aerocool vs zalman vs xigamek) I can see that they are not as dissimilar as I thought. This becomes not so much of a problem. So my thoughts are now of noise and noise reduction.

Assuming a normal midi tower case what can be done to stealth it?

Current layout.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 270 Gaming Edition OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £137.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £55.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - Black £39.95
Total : £504.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).



And good grief! On budget, is such a thing possible?

 

[MrHappy]

So now i have a budget to work with and looking at what is in stock and what is on offer this week.

How about this?

YOUR BASKET
1 x "Recon iX44" Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz (3.3GHz Turbo) Quad Core Value Gaming Bundle £229.99
- 1 x Standard Build Laptops - Approximately 3 to 5 working days £0.00
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 660 FTW ACX 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (02G-P4-3063-KR) £149.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £67.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £55.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
Total : £551.95 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Recon bundle gives me back the intel with some discount.
Nvidia card with free Watchdogs is a nice oppurtunity.
Case works.

 

[MrHappy]

PC is now bought and in the process of being installed. (When being at work does not get in the way. /sigh)

My thanks to everyone that gave their thoughts and opinions.