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Hey all, I am looking to build my first gaming desktop in a fair few years I've been using an ASUS ROG G74SX Laptop for sometime now due to traveling a lot but have finally settled at home and want a nice rig set up. I'm based in the UK to part are definitely more expensive over here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 


 


1. Budget & Location


 


my budget is £1500 MAX (around $2500 USD i think). As above im based in the UK  :)


 


 


2. Aim 


 


My aim is purely gaming but with maybe a slight dabble every now and then with video edit but only occasionally 


 


Better put this in the Mrs will definitely want to play the crappy FB games on when im at work lol  :P


 


3. Monitors


 


A monitor wouldn't be a need out of the bag but suggestions for a future purchase are welcomed  


 


4. Peripherals


 


None needed


 


 


5. Why are you upgrading?


 


I have been using my ROG laptop for about 3 years now and have finally settled down with the family so having a decent home rig set up to meet all my gaming needs would be awesome that and you can compare a laptop to a desktop lol :)


 


 


Any help you guys can give would be greatly appreciated 


 


Thanks. 


 


Lee


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id shoot for 4k with this, use the quote button if you want my help 

 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler  (£75.78 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£85.16 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£83.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB Vapor-X Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  (£329.99 @ Novatech) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB Vapor-X Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  (£329.99 @ Novatech) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£128.96 @ More Computers) 
Total: £1397.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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what do you wanna pick SLI Or CrossFire ?
 

Current Build + Setup

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Pro v2 | CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16gb 3600Mhz | GIGABYTE RTX 3070 AORUS MASTER OC 8 GB | NZXT H510 Elite | 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM | ADATA XPG GAMMIX S7 512GB M.2-2280 NVME | Corsair RM850 80+ Gold Modular PSU | NZXT Kraken X63 | Harman Kardon Soundstick 4 | Koorui 27E1Q

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Been a while since I've been out of the building game and the Nvidia and Radeon wars where all but over with Nvidia coming out on top. but I'm open to either maybe swaying slightly towards SLI. I thought one top end card would be better than twin tho? am I wrong?

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id shoot for 4k with this, use the quote button if you want my help 

 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler  (£75.78 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£85.16 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£83.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB Vapor-X Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  (£329.99 @ Novatech) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB Vapor-X Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  (£329.99 @ Novatech) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£128.96 @ More Computers) 
Total: £1397.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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This is a great starting platform :) For higher end PCs Intel is better (IMO of course) as they have lower heat output, making the parts last longer.

However, I'd go for 290Xs or a 295X2, the 780Ti or the 780 6gb edition. For 4K you'll need a ton of RAM and a very powerful top-of-the-line GPU.

Also you could possibly upgrade to a Samsung 850 Pro for better performance and much better endurance (10 year warranty FTW)

Remember to be a good citizen and choose a 'best answer' when your problem has been resolved!

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This is a great starting platform :) For higher end PCs Intel is better (IMO of course) as they have lower heat output, making the parts last longer.

However, I'd go for 290Xs or a 295X2, the 780Ti or the 780 6gb edition. For 4K you'll need a ton of RAM and a very powerful top-of-the-line GPU.

Also you could possibly upgrade to a Samsung 850 Pro for better performance and much better endurance (10 year warranty FTW)

DO NOT GET A 780 6GB PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT GET IT! 

the card can't use the memory properly and is only able to use 3ish~  

Specs

CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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Been a while since I've been out of the building game and the Nvidia and Radeon wars where all but over with Nvidia coming out on top. but I'm open to either maybe swaying slightly towards SLI. I thought one top end card would be better than twin tho? am I wrong?

nvidia and amd are pretty much equal. the 290's and 780's go head to head well however the 290's do better at higher resolutions because of the 4gb memory 

Specs

CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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DO NOT GET A 780 6GB PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT GET IT! 

the card can't use the memory properly and is only able to use 3ish~  

Oh, I wasn't aware of that :/

Even in SLI it doesn't?

then 290Xs would be a great choice, they have more RAM and are more likely to be able to use it

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with 2 way SLI

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/tj97sY
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/tj97sY/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£244.13 @ More Computers)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£78.73 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus Z97-DELUXE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£189.78 @ More Computers)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£59.58 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£112.92 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate SV35.5 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£65.28 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB DirectCU II  Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£229.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB DirectCU II  Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£229.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Phantom (Black) ATX Full Tower Case  (£89.99 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer  (£14.89 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1410.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Current Build + Setup

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Pro v2 | CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16gb 3600Mhz | GIGABYTE RTX 3070 AORUS MASTER OC 8 GB | NZXT H510 Elite | 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM | ADATA XPG GAMMIX S7 512GB M.2-2280 NVME | Corsair RM850 80+ Gold Modular PSU | NZXT Kraken X63 | Harman Kardon Soundstick 4 | Koorui 27E1Q

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nvidia and amd are pretty much equal. the 290's and 780's go head to head well however the 290's do better at higher resolutions because of the 4gb memory 

The 780 Ti is a card I have read quite about into (because of Linus love for it) and was swaying towards one of them but didnt even consider SLI or Crossfire options.

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Oh, I wasn't aware of that :/

Even in SLI it doesn't?

with sli you only get half the memory from each gpu thus sli 3gb card 1.5gb from each for a total for 3gb 

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CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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with sli you only get half the memory from each gpu thus sli 3gb card 1.5gb from each for a total for 3gb 

But if you used 2 780 6GB it would be 6gb with 2 780s, so they'd be able to use the memory right?

(Just for my personal knowledge here, I haven't checked, but 780 6gb sli might be out of the budget)

Remember to be a good citizen and choose a 'best answer' when your problem has been resolved!

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CPU Cooler: RAIJINTEK EREBOSS BLACK 56.5 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£35.97 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G1.SNIPER Z97 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£118.76 @ Scan.co.uk) 


Storage: Crucial MX100 512GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£149.20 @ Aria PC) 


Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 290 4GB PCS+ Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  (£315.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 290 4GB PCS+ Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  (£315.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case  (£87.13 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Total: £1396.79

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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But if you used 2 780 6GB it would be 6gb with 2 780s, so they'd be able to use the memory right?

(Just for my personal knowledge here, I haven't checked, but 780 6gb sli might be out of the budget)

sorry its the card itself it cannot use the memory properly and there's no solution to it so far  

Specs

CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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sorry its the card itself it cannot use the memory properly and there's no solution to it so far  

Wait so they put 6gb of RAM onto a card but the card can't access it all? 

that's dumb ._.

And cheating the customer.

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Wait so they put 6gb of RAM onto a card but the card can't access it all? 

that's dumb ._.

And cheating the customer.

nvidia trying to scum money out of people and try to compete r9 series memory  

Specs

CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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nvidia trying to scum money out of people and try to compete r9 series memory  

oh damn

Thanks for the tip! I was thinking that it was a great card...

Remember to be a good citizen and choose a 'best answer' when your problem has been resolved!

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I had a play with Pcpartpicker, thoughts on the below?

 

 
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£239.94 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£81.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£155.87 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£117.79 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Superclocked Video Card  (£520.54 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£84.00 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £1416.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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I already have an SSD that is easily transferable to this build.
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I had a play with Pcpartpicker, thoughts on the below?

 

 
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£239.94 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£81.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£155.87 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£117.79 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Superclocked Video Card  (£520.54 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£84.00 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £1416.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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I already have an SSD that is easily transferable to this build.

 

The EVGA psu in my spec above is cheaper, and is 850W. It also has a 10 year warranty. It is one of the best psu's around at the moment.

 

If you are just gaming, then you only need an i5 and 8GB Ram.

 

The R9 290X is far better value than a 780 ti.

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The EVGA psu in my spec above is cheaper, and is 850W. It also has a 10 year warranty. It is one of the best psu's around at the moment.

 

If you are just gaming, then you only need an i5 and 8GB Ram.

 

The R9 290X is far better value than a 780 ti.

 

So amended the build with your recommendations, the saving is awesome nearly an extra £500, opinion on the GPU?

 

 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£81.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£155.87 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£65.76 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card  (£398.75 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£84.00 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1086.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£239.94 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£81.59 @ Aria PC) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£85.16 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£111.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP900 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£118.79 @ Amazon UK) 


Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 290 4GB Black Edition Double Dissipation Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  (£279.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 290 4GB Black Edition Double Dissipation Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  (£279.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 



Total: £1447.36

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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So amended the build with your recommendations, the saving is awesome nearly an extra £500, opinion on the GPU?

 

 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£81.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£155.87 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£65.76 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card  (£398.75 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£84.00 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1086.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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That looks better :) Here are a couple more tweaks that knocks £68 off the price. The Coolermaster evo cooler is great for the money, and it will cope fine with an i5.

 

 

 

 
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£163.14 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£155.87 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card  (£398.75 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£84.00 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1018.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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That looks better :) Here are a couple more tweaks that knocks £68 off the price. The Coolermaster evo cooler is great for the money, and it will cope fine with an i5.

 

 

 

 
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£163.14 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£155.87 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card  (£398.75 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£84.00 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1018.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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I think it depends on if you're going to overclock... Personally if I had the cash I'd get a beefier cooler (Like the Noctua NH-D15 or something) simply because lower temps = longer lifespan and coolers never really die, especially with Noctua supplying parts for newer sockets with every new iteration

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I think it depends on if you're going to overclock... Personally if I had the cash I'd get a beefier cooler (Like the Noctua NH-D15 or something) simply because lower temps = longer lifespan and coolers never really die, especially with Noctua supplying parts for newer sockets with every new iteration

No I completely agree and an O/C will definitely be on the cards, hence why the H105 was in my original parts list.

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