Gaming PC for little brother (£800)

[nemesiszero]

Hey guys looking to build a modern gaming PC for my little brother I have set a budget of £800 and heres what I have came up with so far. If you guys have any suggestions that would lower the price without losing any performance that would be great.

Case: Fractal Design Arc £68.95

PSU: Corsair Builder Series 600W £53.98

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-D3H £99.95

RAM: Corsair LP Vengeance 8GB £42.80

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz £174.60

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo £29.12

GPU: Sapphire HD 7850 OC Edition 2GB £189.90

HDD: Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green £85.99

Total: £745.29

 

[ruthless_villain]

ditch the OCZ PSU , get something silverstone, seasonic or corsair. get a 1tb and a ssd instead of a 2tb drive

 

[seumasbeathan]

Change the psu out for a Corsair CX600, other than that I can't really see anything wrong, should be a very nice build.

Edit : Gtx 570's are very cheap at the moment and are slightly better than the 7850 so you may want to have a look at that, also an MSI Z77A-G43 is about £25 cheaper

 

[DanielSK]

I'm not sure about[font="Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans"] Artic Cooling Alpine, I would change it for a Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo. Couldn't agree more about changing the 2TB HDD for one SSD and 1TB HDD. About the PSU I have 5 PCs running in OCZ Fatal1ty PSUs without a problem, but I would buy a Corsair one since there are many forum members having problem with them[/font]

 

[nemesiszero]

Ok changed the PSU.

 

[nemesiszero]

Changed Cooler also now you guys are so helpful thanks.

 

[seumasbeathan]

ditch the OCZ PSU , get something silverstone, seasonic or corsair. get a 1tb and a ssd instead of a 2tb drive

The price difference between a 1tb drive and a 2 tb drive is so small that he would be better off keeping the 2tb and getting and ssd anyway, just my opinion

 

[nemesiszero]

The price difference between a 1tb drive and a 2 tb drive is so small that he would be better off keeping the 2tb and getting and ssd anyway, just my opinion

Yeah noticed that also when looking at HDD not much of difference. As for the SSD my brother isnt interested or doesnt understand what they do personally I couldn't live without my SSD.

 

[TheOneHalf]

I would normally recomend an SSD but if you can't do it with the budget then stick with what you got.

 

[nemesiszero]

I would normally recomend an SSD but if you can't do it with the budget then stick with what you got.

Yeah dosnt come in the budget but thanks anyway mate.

 

[TheOneHalf]

Yeah dosnt come in the budget but thanks anyway mate.

You could always add one later anyway

IF it is needed/desired ^^

 

[Carbon20]

Might want to look at a caviar black or blue instead. Greens are a bit slow as a boot drive.