£800 Gaming Build

[SPS]

£800 for a gaming build, no overclocking and must include SSD.

What would you guys go for?

A quick look up I found this:

i5 3470
Gigabyte H77-D3H
VTX3D HD 7870 black 2GB
Crucial M4 128GB
WD Blue 1TB
Corsair GS600w - not sure about this
8GB Corsair Vengeance LP
Case @ ~£100

This comes to approximately £800, what do you reckon?

This build isn't for me

 

[alienware]

Look up the MSI Z77 G45. Great board with midrange DNA for £84 or so. I would also try for a 3570k if you're spending that much tbh.

 

[alienware]

Here. Add a PSU and case and you might just get away with it.



Prices from Scan.

 

[SPS]

As far as I can see the only major difference between the z77 and h77 mobo that might affect this build is crossfire support. And the I don't know if the small performance increase to the 3570k is worth it as the OC abilities won't be utilised.

 

[alienware]

The Z77 will allow you to run the ram at the correct speed though. H77 may not allow overclocking which means your ram speed will be locked to the FSB of the CPU which IIRC is 1333.

I could be wrong but usually H boards don't allow any overclocking. I had a H61 and I had to run my ram at 1066 IIRC. As soon as I made the switch to Z77 I could clock it as high as I liked.

Just looked up the H77 board and it's very low spec for the price. Only two SATA ports are the nicer edge connectors and it has no VRM cooling at all. Deffo pay the extra £8 or so for the MSI it batters is spec wise.

 

[SPS]

It claims it supports up to 1600MHz

 

[alienware]

Yeah probably if the CPU FSB is 1600mhz.

 

[Huusa]

i5-3570 £155
MSI B75MA-P45 £50
Fractal Design Define R4 £76
Corsair CX500M £50
120GB Samsung 840 £75
8GB Corsair Vengeance £50
7870 ~£180

£638

 

[grassman]

FX 8320 or 8350

 

[s3ns3]

he specified no OC so don`t recommend him z77 boards lol.perfect choice of hardware so go for it.except there are other psu`s that are better at that price. like the seasonic G 550W(more than enough btw)

 

[SPS]

Yeah probably if the CPU FSB is 1600mhz.

Yeah, I wasn't actually planning on getting 1600 ram, as they don't want to OC.

i5-3570 £155
MSI B75MA-P45 £50
Fractal Design Define R4 £76
Corsair CX500M £50
120GB Samsung 840 £75
8GB Corsair Vengeance £50
7870 ~£180

£638

Nice suggestions. Not a fan of the cx series and I don't want to get him a P45 board at this stage tbh.

FX 8320 or 8350

Sorry forgot to mention, Intel only.

he specified no OC so don`t recommend him z77 boards lol.perfect choice of hardware so go for it.except there are other psu`s that are better at that price. like the seasonic G 550W(more than enough btw)

Yeah I'm going to change out that PSU, possibly for a seasonic. Like you said 600w is overkill for this rig.

 

[SPS]

This PSU seems worthy Seasonic S12II 520W

 

[alienware]

TBH if you're not overclocking and you're not worried about getting 1600mhz ram then you should drop to a case like the Fractal Core MATX case for about £35, drop down to an MATX motherboard for about £50 and put the extra cash into a better GPU like the 7950.

Right now you're eyeing up full sized boards and cases which will be a waste. I'm assuming that your friend is not interested in going SLI/CFX so cut back the spec a bit (keeping the CPU) and get him the best GPU.

 

[alienware]

Here. Add your CPU.



You could even push for a 7970 or 670.

 

[SPS]

Hmm.. fair point, I'm gonna look into this.

 

[alienware]

Last year I had a Coolit Eco 1 leak on me. At the time I was running a £50 Gigabyte MATX board with my trusty Xeon and a GTX 480.

After the leak I needed a new board so I bought a £32 MSI MATX board as I was completely broke. I'd only just upgraded to the Xeon and new memory etc.

So, a £32 motherboard with a Xeon plonked in and a GTX 670. And tbh? the results I saw out of that board were no worse than the £80 board I use now with a single GPU. Sure,it has SATA III and USB III (The one I use now) but I don't even have any SATA III or USB III devices.

I'm not saying you should use a £32 board but what you need to do here (being that your friend just wants a stable normal system which I totally get given I don't overclock my rig) is start cutting things back a little. Not to the bare minimum, but there's no point buying say a motherboard that offers SLI or Crossfire if you're not going to use it. Such boards always charge for the pleasure tbh

 

[Sir-Weasel]

cpu: intel i5 3470 / 154.98
mobo: msi h77ma-g43 / 61.72
ram: 8 gb corsair lp / 43.39
psu: 550W Enermax NAXN 82+ ENP550AWT-B / 59.46
ssd: 128GB Plextor PX-128M5S / 82.94
hdd: 1tb seagate / 51.95
gpu: msi GTX 660 Twin Frozr III/OC / 157.99
case: Silverstone Precision PS07B / 57.68
Total £681.09

 

[SPS]

Last year I had a Coolit Eco 1 leak on me. At the time I was running a £50 Gigabyte MATX board with my trusty Xeon and a GTX 480.

After the leak I needed a new board so I bought a £32 MSI MATX board as I was completely broke. I'd only just upgraded to the Xeon and new memory etc.

So, a £32 motherboard with a Xeon plonked in and a GTX 670. And tbh? the results I saw out of that board were no worse than the £80 board I use now with a single GPU. Sure,it has SATA III and USB III (The one I use now) but I don't even have any SATA III or USB III devices.

I'm not saying you should use a £32 board but what you need to do here (being that your friend just wants a stable normal system which I totally get given I don't overclock my rig) is start cutting things back a little. Not to the bare minimum, but there's no point buying say a motherboard that offers SLI or Crossfire if you're not going to use it. Such boards always charge for the pleasure tbh

TBH that MSI board brings more to the table that would suit his needs, now I could never recommend that Gigabyte board.

cpu: intel i5 3470 / 154.98
mobo: msi h77ma-g43 / 61.72
ram: 8 gb corsair lp / 43.39
psu: 550W Enermax NAXN 82+ ENP550AWT-B / 59.46
ssd: 128GB Plextor PX-128M5S / 82.94
hdd: 1tb seagate / 51.95
gpu: msi GTX 660 Twin Frozr III/OC / 157.99
case: Silverstone Precision PS07B / 57.68
Total £681.09

Not bad, GPU is a bit lacking IMO though for an £800 gaming system.

 

[iBeInspire]

LMFAO £800 gaming build, but with no OC. We're all completely thrown through a loop because of ''no OC'' xPP

I'd +1 the matx idea with a low end B75 board (The MSI one - but that's personal preference), a i5 non-k, a 7970/670, ~ 550w PSU... along those lines

 

[SPS]

LMFAO £800 gaming build, but with no OC. We're all completely thrown through a loop because of ''no OC'' xPP

I'd +1 the matx idea with a low end B75 board (The MSI one - but that's personal preference), a i5 non-k, a 7970/670, ~ 550w PSU... along those lines

Yup that's what I'm aiming for. Yeah on here we're not used to non-OC'd rigs, but this is a person who just wants a PC to do it's job to run games and software.