"Twitch" Build on a Budget!

FaNaTiiCz

FaNaTiiCz

FaNaTiiCz

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So my cousin mentioned over a match of Cs:Go that his laptop wasn't up to scratch and was toying with the idea of spending some of his hard earned student finance on an upgrade!

Being the ever helpful pc enthusiast that i am i was happy to oblige!

So the three key points that he stipulated were,

1. Had to be reasonably transportable for when he comes home from uni
2. Had to be capable of running current AAA titles at 60fps or better on ultra
3. Had to be in a budget of £600-£700

So with quite a tight budget we struggled to get everything in and keep it balanced, and i may have chosen wrong on some of these but there IS method in my madness or at least i think there is!

So parts are as follows,

Intel Core i5-4690K

Nice solid quad core, decent price and nice speed at stock, overclockable in the future

MSI Radeon R9 270X Gaming Edition OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Really good value for money and not a bad performer, should last at least a year maybe two

MSI Z97 Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard

Love this board, all the bells and whistles we could need and not breaking the bank!

Corsair RM Series RM 550 '80+ Gold' 550W Power Supply

Ive used Corsair psu's in my last 3 build so ive become a bit of a fan boy! ;)

Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit

Enough ram for the time being and he could always stick a couple more sticks in later on

Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive

I really wanted a SSD for the OS and he really wanted at least 1Tb of storage so to meet in the middle and to keep in budget this seemed like a good idea

BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower

I don't know if you guys are the same but if you wander down to the budget end of the pc cases your likely to lose you lunch! lol there are some awful looking cases at this price range but for the price these BF jobbies look the nuts!

Cherry Evolution Stream XT Corded Keyboard - White

And he also wanted a low profile keyboard and at the price and being white especially this was a bargain!

So things were making do with!

No Bling as of yet just couldn't waste the budget on non essential stuff
At stock speeds the stock cpu heatsink will cope fine so when overclocking becomes required we can look at a better heatsink
More Storage
More Ram
And possible crossfire action in future

So as soon as we get a nice parcel from OcUk ill get some pics up! until then,

Thanks for reading!

FaNaTiiCz
 
Think I would have pushed him into a 240GB SSD instead of the hybrid, squeezed a 280X into the budget and gone for a super flower PSU. That and 2400 ram is on sale atm, but hey this always happens whenever anyone buys anything :)

Hmmm, think I would have gone smaller form and waited out on the new corsair cube too, :P
 
Threepwood said:
Think I would have pushed him into a 240GB SSD instead of the hybrid, squeezed a 280X into the budget and gone for a super flower PSU. That and 2400 ram is on sale atm, but hey this always happens whenever anyone buys anything :)

Hmmm, think I would have gone smaller form and waited out on the new corsair cube too, :P
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Time scale wise he wants it building ready for this sun/mon so had to be with what was available now, apparently his steam folder is approx 400gb so he needs the capacity! and we were already pushing the budget with what we had already, (original limit was £600) This lot came in at £715.46 with pp
 
I would have gone for mATX and tried to source higher performance parts myself. there amazing deals to be had by looking into clearance sections of many etailers. and second hand parts can also be a good option.
it'll still be a nice build though
 
Yes probably true but its the hassle of ordering parts for multiple vendors and the risk of second hand stuff failing and not being able to rma it, i think for the money weve not done bad and hopefully with a bit of tweaking ill be able to give him something hes pleased with!
 
FaNaTiiCz said:
Yes probably true but its the hassle of ordering parts for multiple vendors and the risk of second hand stuff failing and not being able to rma it, i think for the money weve not done bad and hopefully with a bit of tweaking ill be able to give him something hes pleased with!
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yeah that's true. if you need it sunday or monday, you might as well order everything from the same place. and if he needs more horsepower down the line, he can always upgrade
 
mATX motherboard and Aerocool DS case. Does he qualify for educational licenses of Windows and Office? And what about a monitor?
 
Well parts came, one small snag, the case came in the black finnish not the white we ordered :/







If my cousins happy with the black finnish we'll be building it tomorrow :)

Thanks for watching!

FaNaTiiCz
 
so we got it built saturday, its running some nice fps in all the games he plays so hes cuffed! next step upgrade the cpu heatsink and modding :)







Hopefully hell let me go to town on it :) i really want to resleeve that loom!

Thanks for watching

FaNaTiiCz
 
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