Upgrade advise

[Phil22]

Hi chaps,

Helping a friend upgrade so he can play some battlefield 1. He needs:

GPU
CPU
RAM
Motherboard
PSU
SSD

I know this is the graphics card section of the forum but guessed it would get more views here. Any and all recommendations would be appreciated. Budget would be £1000.

Cheers!

 

[RobinGopher]

Starting point

well that's a broad canvas so equally vague response:

1060(6gb) (any of them) or RX480 (maybe start being picky)
I7 CPU
Mobo - frankly there are no bad ones anymore, pick a colour you like
Ram - Match the mobo
SSD - Well you want a lot for you £1000 so you can't be fussy. Personally I'd avoid Toshiba/OCZ and if its the only drive you need 500GB+
PSU - This isn't a demanding system, something over 500W.

I think that will come to pretty much your budget but you won't get the sexy version of anything.

 

[Quartz]

Including a copy of Windows:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Cougar QBX Mini-ITX Cube Chassis - Black= £42.95
• 1 x Asus H110I Plus Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ITX Motherboard= £64.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £99.95
• 1 x Noctua NH-L12 CPU Cooler= £42.95
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Red (CMK16GX4M2A2400= £89.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 ITX Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1060IXOC-3GD)= £194.99
• 1 x Seasonic G series 450w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £199.99

Total: £1,008.09
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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[easyrider]

Don't get the 3gb 1060 whatever you....not sure why the guy above even specked it.

 

[Quartz]

Don't get the 3gb 1060 whatever you....not sure why the guy above even specked it.

D'oh, I didn't spot that! It was a misclick for the 6 GB version. The 3 GB version is definitely to be avoided.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Cougar QBX Mini-ITX Cube Chassis - Black= £42.95
• 1 x Asus H110I Plus Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ITX Motherboard= £64.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £99.95
• 1 x Noctua NH-L12 CPU Cooler= £42.95
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Red (CMK16GX4M2A2400= £89.99
• 1 x Seasonic G series 450w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £199.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 ITX Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1060IXOC-6GD)= £259.99

Total: £1,073.09
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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[easyrider]

D'oh, I didn't spot that! It was a misclick for the 6 GB version. The 3 GB version is definitely to be avoided.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Cougar QBX Mini-ITX Cube Chassis - Black= £42.95
• 1 x Asus H110I Plus Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ITX Motherboard= £64.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £99.95
• 1 x Noctua NH-L12 CPU Cooler= £42.95
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Red (CMK16GX4M2A2400= £89.99
• 1 x Seasonic G series 450w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £199.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 ITX Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1060IXOC-6GD)= £259.99

Total: £1,073.09
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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H110 Chipset?

Why mini ITX?

80 quid on a 450w PSU?

42 quid on a CPU cooler for a chip that cant be overclocked or a mobo that cant be overclocked?

I would just leave mate

 

[Scurburg]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x 8Pack Approved - Intel Core i5 6400 @ 4.4GHz Overclocked Quad Core Gaming Bundle = £442.87
  • CPU Cooler:Alpenföhn Brocken 2 CPU Cooler
  • Memory:Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C16 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2A26
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 "Founders Edition" 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1070D5-8GD-= £429.95
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury 480GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (SHFS37A/480G)= £99.95

Total: £983.87
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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The OC bundle allows FSB OCing (6600k kind of performance for less, but with some minor limits/draw backs, mainly power saving features and bios that can be used)
Gigabyte Founders edition 1070 although ref type cooler, does come with free a PSU (not great but should be ok for build I believe)
SSD with relatively large capacity for price (currently on offer -20%)
And you even get a free game too (Gears Of War)

Should be ample to run BF1 and any other game or task he throws at it for some time.