[UK] Review My PC Build

Tehgoose · January 23, 2015

-I am living in the UK and I have a budget of £850

-I am building a gaming PC that can run games at 1080p and high settings no problem.

-The budget includes the monitor and excludes the OS

This is what I have come up with: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/tnttimelord/saved/Lcwj4D

Please let me know about bottlenecking and other problems that could arise

Thank you.

Geekazoid · January 23, 2015

-I am living in the UK and I have a budget of £850

-I am building a gaming PC that can run games at 1080p and high settings no problem.

-The budget includes the monitor and excludes the OS

This is what I have come up with: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/tnttimelord/saved/Lcwj4D

Please let me know about bottlenecking and other problems that could arise

Thank you.

If you're only gaming at 1080p, then you could go with an Intel build and one of the new GTX 960 GPUs.

SimpleG · January 23, 2015

-I am living in the UK and I have a budget of £850

-I am building a gaming PC that can run games at 1080p and high settings no problem.

-The budget includes the monitor and excludes the OS

This is what I have come up with: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/tnttimelord/saved/Lcwj4D

Please let me know about bottlenecking and other problems that could arise

Thank you.

i5 would be waay better + a 960 is better value at 1080p

Lotus · January 23, 2015

The FX-6300 is just not a good choice. It has such poor single threaded performance that it will bottleneck the GTX 970 in lots of games. Plus the expensive (ish) mobo and need for a good aftermarket CPU cooler makes the platform unnecessarily expensive.

This build uses an i5-4460, which is only a tiny bit more for the platform since you can use a cheaper motherboard and the stock cooler. To compensate, I changed the PSU to the EVGA 500B since thats more than enough for this system and modularity is unnecessary with the hidden PSU compartment of the S340.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£130.94 @ Aria PC)

Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£64.74 @ Aria PC)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£69.23 @ Aria PC)

Storage: Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive (£79.99 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (£265.16 @ Scan.co.uk)

Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.94 @ Scan.co.uk)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£38.52 @ Amazon UK)

Monitor: BenQ RL2455HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor (£131.09 @ Scan.co.uk)

Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N15 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£15.59 @ CCL Computers)

Total: £855.20

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available