First Gaming Build - Need Advice

[Andyd1903]

Hey this is my first time building a pc and I don't know whether the components I've chose are right. I have done loads of research to understand how to pick them but I just want to make sure I get it right. I want to play games like; CS, Battlefield, Call Of Duty, Payday 2, Fifa, Gta, Minecraft, Hearthstone etc. I was looking to spend around £500 but have gone over so If there is anything that is irrelevant to have then don't hesitate to say. If anyone could recommend a 1080p monitor that is cheap and maybe a good cheap keyboard and mouse just to get started that would be great. This is what I have gathered so far. Plus if there is any websites you can recommend where I can get the components cheaper. Thanks in advance. 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/CK3BFT

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/CK3BFT/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£140.99 @ Aria PC) 

Motherboard: MSI B85-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£48.02 @ CCL Computers) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£65.76 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£74.39 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.50 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB DirectCU II Video Card  (£168.91 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Case: BitFenix Neos Black ATX Mid Tower Case  (£29.75 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£44.34 @ Aria PC) 

Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer  (£11.21 @ Aria PC) 

Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN821N 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Wi-Fi Adapter  (£7.78 @ CCL Computers) 

Total: £628.65

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-17 21:01 BST+0100

[Soplias]

I Would definitely recommend CCL computers, i get most of my compnonets from there and dont have any problems, their postage is like, you will order on a Monday and they will say "you will recieve your order on Friday" Then you will get on the Wednesday. Its Wonderful

[Andyd1903]

I Would definitely recommend CCL computers, i get most of my compnonets from there and dont have any problems, their postage is like, you will order on a Monday and they will say "you will recieve your order on Friday" Then you will get on the Wednesday. Its Wonderful

 

Cheers I'll do some sourcing

[dizmo]

I'd consider an AMD 280, 280x, or 285.

Do you really need an optical drive?

 

Other than that, looks good.

[Deletive]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
 
CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£43.14 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus H81M-E Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£36.50 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£65.76 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£74.39 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.50 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (£147.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Case: BitFenix Neos Black ATX Mid Tower Case  (£29.75 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£44.34 @ Aria PC) 
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer  (£11.21 @ Aria PC) 
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN821N 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Wi-Fi Adapter  (£7.78 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £498.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-17 21:12 BST+0100

[Andyd1903]

I'd consider an AMD 280, 280x, or 285.

Do you really need an optical drive?

 

Other than that, looks good.

 

I was looking to go down the intel route but thanks anyway. The optical drive was mainly to install the os! It's not to much anyway. Thanks

[Andyd1903]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£43.14 @ Aria PC) 

Motherboard: Asus H81M-E Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£36.50 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£65.76 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£74.39 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.50 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (£147.99 @ Ebuyer) 

Case: BitFenix Neos Black ATX Mid Tower Case  (£29.75 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£44.34 @ Aria PC) 

Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer  (£11.21 @ Aria PC) 

Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN821N 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Wi-Fi Adapter  (£7.78 @ CCL Computers) 

Total: £498.36

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-17 21:12 BST+0100

 

Will the Pentium be able to play all the games on high? It seems too cheap!

[dizmo]

I was looking to go down the intel route but thanks anyway. The optical drive was mainly to install the os! It's not to much anyway. Thanks

Intel doesn't make GPU's...

The performance is a lot better with the AMD cards. Almost double IIRC.

Unless there's a certain aspect of Nvidia you want, why take the performance hit?

[Deletive]

Will the Pentium be able to play all the games on high? It seems too cheap!

Just overclock it and yeah it will. It'll play all of the games your mentioned really well.. 4.2ghz would be a good play

[Andyd1903]

Intel doesn't make GPU's...

The performance is a lot better with the AMD cards. Almost double IIRC.

Unless there's a certain aspect of Nvidia you want, why take the performance hit?

 

Haha I thought it was the CPU I'm not convinced about Amd. They apparently run hot and are a cheap alternative. One of my friends recommended the Nvidia and lots of people backed him up!

[Andyd1903]

Just overclock it and yeah it will. It'll play all of the games your mentioned really well.. 4.2ghz would be a good play

 

I don't want to overclock cause I don't know to much about it so I would probably screw it up and cost myself more! Is there one that which would get me the same performance as that CPU for less?

[Deletive]

I don't want to overclock cause I don't know to much about it so I would probably screw it up and cost myself more! Is there one that which would get me the same performance as that CPU for less?

nope not unless you want to go with an 760k and fm2+ which doesn't have much of an upgrade path

Overclocking isn't hard... it won't ruin your chip at all if you stay under 1.3 volts linus has videos on it and the safe zone would be like 4.2ghz 

[Andyd1903]

nope not unless you want to go with an 760k and fm2+ which doesn't have much of an upgrade path

Overclocking isn't hard... it won't ruin your chip at all if you stay under 1.3 volts linus has videos on it and the safe zone would be like 4.2ghz 

 

What about a 4130?

[dizmo]

Haha I thought it was the CPU I'm not convinced about Amd. They apparently run hot and are a cheap alternative. One of my friends recommended the Nvidia and lots of people backed him up!

At this price point AMD wins by quite a wide margin.

Here's a comparison using BF4 since it's a pretty popular game.

 

 

The 280x is ~10fps faster. Or, 20%. Not a small number by any means and basically on par with the GTX 770.

They don't run that hot. Stock cooler, sure, they're hotter. That's not what you'd be buying, and it's not like it's a furnace. The only people that continuously spout that are either Nvidia fanbois or just horribly uninformed individuals.

 

I don't want to overclock cause I don't know to much about it so I would probably screw it up and cost myself more! Is there one that which would get me the same performance as that CPU for less?

Motherboards that offer overclocking often have a very simple software solution for it.

For example on my Gigabyte board there's an application with three very large buttons. One's green (stock), one's yellow (slight overclock), the other is red (large overclock).

They're all extremely safe as you haven't really altered much.

 

nope not unless you want to go with an 760k and fm2+ which doesn't have much of an upgrade path

Overclocking isn't hard... it won't ruin your chip at all if you stay under 1.3 volts linus has videos on it and the safe zone would be like 4.2ghz 

You can't overclock on that motherboard...it's an H81..

[Andyd1903]

At this price point AMD wins by quite a wide margin.

Here's a comparison using BF4 since it's a pretty popular game.

 

 

The 280x is ~10fps faster. Or, 20%. Not a small number by any means and basically on par with the GTX 770.

They don't run that hot. Stock cooler, sure, they're hotter. That's not what you'd be buying, and it's not like it's a furnace. The only people that continuously spout that are either Nvidia fanbois or just horribly uninformed individuals.

 

Motherboards that offer overclocking often have a very simple software solution for it.

For example on my Gigabyte board there's an application with three very large buttons. One's green (stock), one's yellow (slight overclock), the other is red (large overclock).

They're all extremely safe as you haven't really altered much.

 

You can't overclock on that motherboard...it's an H81..

 

At this price point AMD wins by quite a wide margin.

Here's a comparison using BF4 since it's a pretty popular game.

 

 

The 280x is ~10fps faster. Or, 20%. Not a small number by any means and basically on par with the GTX 770.

They don't run that hot. Stock cooler, sure, they're hotter. That's not what you'd be buying, and it's not like it's a furnace. The only people that continuously spout that are either Nvidia fanbois or just horribly uninformed individuals.

 

Motherboards that offer overclocking often have a very simple software solution for it.

For example on my Gigabyte board there's an application with three very large buttons. One's green (stock), one's yellow (slight overclock), the other is red (large overclock).

They're all extremely safe as you haven't really altered much.

 

You can't overclock on that motherboard...it's an H81..

 

But that costs over £200 and mine is £140 or something!

[dizmo]

But that costs over £200 and mine is £140 or something!

The Sapphire version is 190. Yours is 170. It's a minimal increase for a 20% gain.