My first Gaming PC Build

[TheGamingBarrel]

1. Budget & Location
I am in the UK and use the British sterling

2. Aim
Heavy gaming and sometimes rendering videos, I will be playing games such as titanfall, BF4, and other high power games (ARMA)

3. Monitors
I will be running on one monitor and may use my television as another screen, so I need a bit of head room there
4. Peripherals
I will be buying a Keyboard (Decided on it already) Microphone (£50 or below) and a pair of headphones (£30 and below) and windows 7, if someone could find one under £60 I will be happy

5. Why are you upgrading?
Well, a low power laptop that doesnt even run most modern games isnt very fun.

 

Under full load this is what my envisioned system would run at (100% load) http://prntscr.com/35empd

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3iW2M

 

If you have any recommendations, please tell me, My budget is around £1350-1400.

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[Redportal]

Why not use both the same saized ssd's and RAID them?

[Guest GRRigger]

pretty beast build, but go with intel. do you want me to make a build with intel cpu? mainly because arma is so single core perf intensive.

very good component selection, but a bit unbalanced. i guess you will have one ssd as a backup or what?

[SAV1OUR]

better 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

 

CPU:  AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor  (£131.99 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler:  Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£82.92 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory:  Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory  (£62.81 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage:  Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  (£62.57 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage:  Samsung 840 Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  (£131.00 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage:  Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£39.00 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card:  MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£239.99 @ Ebuyer) 

Video Card:  MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£239.99 @ Ebuyer) 

Case:  Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£79.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply:  Corsair RM 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£113.40 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Optical Drive:  Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive  (£10.78 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Operating System:  Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)  (Purchased For £0.00) 

Monitor:  BenQ GL2450HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor  (£113.99 @ Aria PC) 

Keyboard:  Cooler Master Quick Fire Stealth Wired Gaming Keyboard 

Total: £1308.43

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-30 09:42 BST+0100)

[RelentlessAF]

I also recommend a RAID array for the SSD's with similar capacities. Also why not a single 780? You could add a secondary card later and avoid the possible compatibility issues that SLI'd cards sometimes have. Also are you hoping to max these games or just run them at Very High settings?

[Anthony10]

Is the extra ssd on there by accident? No need for raid if you're using an 840 evo, samsung has a rapid mode that uses some of your ram as cache to achieve 1gbs read/write speeds.

My suggestions:

-h100i

-1600mhz ram

-800w-850w psu

-gtx 780, save up for another 780 in the future.

-maybe a 4670k?

evga is coming out with a stepup program for the gtx 780, so if you buy a evga 780 youll be able to trade it in the the new one that will have 6gb vram (twice the vram) vram helps with displaying more textures, so theoretically for more displays and higher resolutions.

see details http://www.evga.com/articles/00830/

[Jogostar]

PSU is overkill. You will never use your whole system at 100%

[TheGamingBarrel]

I already have the case BTW,(Carbide 300R) I forgot to mention that I am going with AMD because of the price and I cant go with a H100i because of the size. I also don't particularly like RAID and don't understand it that much

[WoodenMarker]

Whatever calculator you're using is highly inaccurate--like most psu calculators. 

You'd be hard pressed to need any more than a decent 750w if not just a solid 650w psu. 

 

What kind of videos are you rendering?

Why 2 ssds and a 770 sli?

Is the optical drive really necessary?

[TheGamingBarrel]

Whatever calculator you're using is highly inaccurate--like most psu calculators. 

You'd be hard pressed to need any more than a decent 750w if not just a solid 650w psu. 

 

What kind of videos are you rendering?

Why 2 ssds and a 770 sli?

Is the optical drive really necessary?

1080P about 20min videos and one SSD (Partitioned that will have a 10GB Partition and a 110GB) and more storage for games and a 1tb spare for everything else, and with the optical dirve I will most likely ONLY use it to install windows 7 because I have only had bad experiences with USB and have only managed to install with a DVD Drive I saw the price of a 780Ti and thought about it and then went for 770's

[WoodenMarker]

1080P about 20min videos and one SSD (Partitioned that will have a 10GB Partition and a 110GB) and more storage for games and a 1tb spare for everything else, and with the optical dirve I will most likely ONLY use it to install windows 7 because I have only had bad experiences with USB and have only managed to install with a DVD Drive I saw the price of a 780Ti and thought about it and then went for 770's

What kind of videos are you making? Just gaming videos? Programs being used? Are you going to be using Shadowplay?

What's the partition for? Why put games on the ssd? Are loading times that big of a deal?

What problems did you have installing Windows via usb?

The 780 Ti is a bad value and sli 770's are more limiting on the vram/memory bus side compared to 780/290's. 

[TheGamingBarrel]

What kind of videos are you making? Just gaming videos? Programs being used? Are you going to be using Shadowplay?

What's the partition for? Why put games on the ssd? Are loading times that big of a deal?

What problems did you have installing Windows via usb?

The 780 Ti is a bad value and sli 770's are more limiting on the vram/memory bus side compared to 780/290's. 

The 10Gb is for OS and on the USB it just straight up wouldnt work (After selecting it went to HDD and it was trying to boot but couldnt find any bootable files) and once you have got used to a HDD that runs at about 100kb/ps and I want something futureproof, I will be using FRAPS (Why is it caps?) on gaming.

[WoodenMarker]

The 10Gb is for OS and on the USB it just straight up wouldnt work (After selecting it went to HDD and it was trying to boot but couldnt find any bootable files) and once you have got used to a HDD that runs at about 100kb/ps and I want something futureproof, I will be using FRAPS (Why is it caps?) on gaming.

The OS isn't just 10GB. It should be at least 20GB if not more after updates.

Maybe you didn't set up your usb drive correctly? http://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-to-do-with-your-usb-flash-drive-install-windows-7/

There's no such thing as future proof.

You may want to make sure you're recording on a drive that's separate from your games unless you're using the ssd in which case it should be fast enough to not be an issue. 

[TheGamingBarrel]

The OS isn't just 10GB. It should be at least 20GB if not more after updates.

Maybe you didn't set up your usb drive correctly? http://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-to-do-with-your-usb-flash-drive-install-windows-7/

There's no such thing as future proof.

You may want to make sure you're recording on a drive that's separate from your games unless you're using the ssd in which case it should be fast enough to not be an issue. 

Didnt I put the 1tb Seagate Barracuda on the list? and I thought you needed 4gb and then maybe another 4 with updates

[WoodenMarker]

I thought you needed 4gb and then maybe another 4 with updates

No.. The compressed Windows installation and the installed Windows files are very different in sizes. 

[Megazero]

Scrap the 770 SLI, go with a single 780. It cost the same and will run your games better.
Your PSU is crazy, go with a 750w or 800w at most. The calculation for W need go up to 710 on your list because of the SLI, get rid of it and it should drop to around 400.

And why 2 SSD? you should only need one for the OS, game runs on SSD dont make much different compare to HDD.

[WoodenMarker]

Recommended edits: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3iXYX

Save the extra money for future upgrades.