£750 build help

[William.dry]

Hi,

I have a budget of around £750 for my pc build, but i'm struggling with parts to buy.

i have decided on a graphics card, and a case which will be the Radeon R9 280x MSI edition, and the Corsair C70 white edition.

but thats about it, i was going to go with an intel core i5 4670k, but if i did i would not be able to afford a decent power supply, or cpu cooler, so im asking for help on any alternatives, and suggestions on other parts


Just to recap, Parts needed (the £750 includes the price of graphics card and case)

CPU
Motherboard
RAM
SSD/HDD (what ever i can afford)
Power supply

Thank you for any help

 

[jarthur36]

Just for reference, my rig(In my Sig) was £750 without the peripherals. Although the prices will have dropped slightly, you are going for a more expensive GPU and case. I'd say you could save some serious money on motherboard as it has almost no effect of game performance. Instead of 4670k you could go 3570K which is almost as good and save yourself £30. Then you can go any of the Z77 motherboard which can often work out alot cheaper than the Z87 ones. I have used probably the cheapest Z77 board I could find - the ASUS P8Z77-V LX - and it was actually pretty good, intuitive bios and pretty easy to build on.

 

[Mathius]

All that is missing is a Custom Cooler and a DVD drive, but you can install windows from a USB instead. so the optical isnt really needed unless you watch movies on disc, and a customer cooler could come later !?

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£156.94 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£109.04 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB ) DDR3-1600 Memory (£60.62 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.54 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£227.46 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£55.98 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Corsair C70 White (£90.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £743.58


As jarther mentioned, Ivy Bridge i5-3xxx and Z77 will work out cheaper ....or not so it seems :lol: , but being a new build try and get the new platform.

 

[jarthur36]

All that is missing is a Custom Cooler and a DVD drive, but you can install windows from a USB instead. so the optical isnt really needed unless you watch movies on disc, and a customer cooler could come later !?

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£156.94 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£109.04 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB ) DDR3-1600 Memory (£60.62 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.54 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£227.46 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£55.98 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Corsair C70 White (£90.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £743.58


As jarther mentioned, Ivy Bridge i5-3xxx and Z77 will work out cheaper, but being a new build try and get the new platform.

Although here the 4670k is down as being £156 on amazon UK when really it is £193 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Graphics-BX80646I74770-Generation-Technology/dp/B00CO8TBOW

 

[Mathius]

true that........I didnt check it. sorry.....

the next cheapest are Aria and Ebuyer, unless you are lucky and get one on the bay?

 

[jarthur36]

true that........I didnt check it. sorry.....

the next cheapest are Aria and Ebuyer, unless you are lucky and get one on the bay?

Although if you click on the more sellers bit on amazon, Amazon UK themselves are selling for £166 which just about pushes the whole build £3 over budget. Not sure why they dont push that up to be the main price tbh.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Could even go for a cheaper case if you are straining to stay in budget?

Personally i would not go for CX powersupplies. Quality is not in its nature from expierence.

 

[William.dry]

Hi guys,

thanks for the feedback.

i have just gone through my old computer drawer and found an old 128gb SSD so i dont really need a HDD anymore, as i can just re use my current one.

The parts i kind of had in mind were this

Case: Corsair C70 - White (£89.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair vengeance pro 2x3gb (£67.99 @ Dabs)
Graphics card: MSI R9 280x (£224 @ Dabs)
CPU: I5-4670k (£166 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45-Gaming (£109.99 @ Dabs)
Power supply: Corsair HX650 ( £90 @ Amazon) - Still not sure about this
CPU cooler: Corsair H100 - Refurbished (£44 @ Dabs)

However this does add up to £791, although i COULD stretch to that price, i don't really want too

If anyone has any suggestions for other parts ill gladly take it into consideration (as this is my first build)

 

[SeraNoxa]

never been a fan of AMD/ATI since i had 2x gfx cards dying, but thats like 10 years ago. anyways, looking at dabs, you could take a 270x ( http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-a...i-top-oc-91BG.html?refs=55570000&q=270&src=16 ) and save around 60 quid

 

[barnsley]

Hi guys,


Case: Corsair C70 - White (£89.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair vengeance pro 2x3gb (£67.99 @ Dabs)
Graphics card: MSI R9 280x (£224 @ Dabs)
CPU: I5-4670k (£166 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45-Gaming (£109.99 @ Dabs)
Power supply: Corsair HX650 ( £90 @ Amazon) - Still not sure about this
CPU cooler: Corsair H100 - Refurbished (£44 @ Dabs)

However this does add up to £791, although i COULD stretch to that price, i don't really want too

I'd just get a cheaper case for the time being then get a more expensive one later on.
Either the Silverstone RLO4B (cheap excellent build quality and cable routing, its a bargain at £30) or the Enermax Ostrog in white (£43.18, has a window and cable management)

 

[William.dry]

yeah i was thinking about the case, but i really do like the C70, and i think ill stick with it though.

looking at your build under what you just said, is the AMD CPU's any good, because i could have a lot more head way for other components if i went with AMD instead of Intel

And the power supply is still bugging me, don't know much about then, anyone can give me an in sight to what I'm looking for, or suggest one for me that would be great

 

[barnsley]

yeah i was thinking about the case, but i really do like the C70, and i think ill stick with it though.

looking at your build under what you just said, is the AMD CPU's any good, because i could have a lot more head way for other components if i went with AMD instead of Intel

And the power supply is still bugging me, don't know much about then, anyone can give me an in sight to what I'm looking for, or suggest one for me that would be great

The AMD 8320 is great as long as you are willing to OC and only really want to use the PC for gaming. I've found its pretty poor for rendering videos/stuff for UDK and ARMA 2 performance is a bit below par.

Here is an AMD based build I came up with: The CPU cooler is good enough for a moderate OC and I've added a PSU that can be changed for a slightly cheaper one. Motherboard wise it's always a good idea to go for a not cheap-as-chips one for AMD.

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£109.65 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£93.50 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Dominator 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£73.59 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£225.73 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: SeaSonic M12II 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£87.30 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £613.75

 

[William.dry]

yeah i do like what you have put down there, have you played the new DayZ game, and/or battlefield 4? because they are the two main games ill be playing, and wandering how the AMD CPU copes, and if anyone else who reads this has any information, that would be greatly appreciated

 

[barnsley]

yeah i do like what you have put down there, have you played the new DayZ game, and/or battlefield 4? because they are the two main games ill be playing, and wandering how the AMD CPU copes, and if anyone else who reads this has any information, that would be greatly appreciated

Battlefield 3&4 are the games that make the best use of the CPU in my opinion. Supposedly the 8350 is as fast as the 3770k in that game (some 8320s can go as high a 5ghz but almost 99% can do stock 8350 clocks easily). I'm a massive fan of DayZ (more than 300 hours in various versions) but haven't got the new one yet. The new one should run more like arma 3 (fine, some sort of vague cpu optimization) than arma 2 (without various fixes, dayz likes to run at 30fps, ultra settings which is known to lag everything out). The engine the new dayz has is basically the take on helicopters' version of the ARMA engine.