New build (after years)

[MrBaker89]

Looking for some guidance...

 

I've been out of the PC scene for years now decided to get back into it and build a new rig.

 

I've chosen the following:

 

i5 4460 LGA1150

 

Asus H81M Mobo

 

Gskill Ripjaws 8GB 2400MHZ

 

Sapphire R9 270X 4GB 

 

Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD

 

Corsair builder series CXM 750W modular 80plus bronze

 

Wondering if anyone has any alterations or adjustments feel free to tell me. My budget is around £600 - £700 

 

This rig will basically be for Elder scrolls online, League of Legends among a few other games.

[Zeke]

PSU is overkill (550W will be sufficient), you can easily swap 2400 MHz RAM for 1600-2133 (yeah, timings aside, 2400 is better but there is no reason to use them in a 700-pound build unless you really really need that fast RAM for some tasks). Also, I don't see a CPU cooler and the case on the list.

[alby800]

PSU is overkill.

This^

[uhMayzedHD]

CXM sucks (never bronze)

 

I would rather RM750 it save you on electrical bill or Evga 750G2 or 650G1 

 

if you only going game I would go with 1866mhz but if you going do editting than go with 2400mhz

[GhostWindGamer]

Budget, location, what are you using it for, monitor, OS, KB and mouse

[Zeke]

Budget, location, what are you using it for

 

budget is around £600 - £700 

 

This rig will basically be for Elder scrolls online, League of Legends among a few other games.

[GhostWindGamer]

Hm ok sorry I missed that bit when I read the post sorry

[MrBaker89]

CXM sucks (never bronze)

 

I would rather RM750 it save you on electrical bill or Evga 750G2

 

if you only going game I would go with 1866mhz but if you going do editting than go with 2400mhz

 

 

PSU is overkill (550W will be sufficient), you can easily swap 2400 MHz RAM for 1600-2133 (yeah, timings aside, 2400 is better but there is no reason to use them in a 700-pound build unless you really really need that fast RAM for some tasks). Also, I don't see a CPU cooler and the case on the list.

 

 

I will only be gaming on this machine so i'll look at getting either 1866 - 2133mhz RAM

 

Ill have a look at those Power supplies

[Manny Calavera]

use Pcpartpicker  (UK) and make build, then export using bbcode markup and paste here. 

[MrBaker89]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£134.99 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.86 @ CCL Computers) 

Motherboard: Asus Z87-C ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£99.21 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£69.98 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£83.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 4GB Dual-X Video Card  (£149.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case  (£63.52 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£80.46 @ Amazon UK) 

Total: £707.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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[uhMayzedHD]

1866MHZ is the sweet spot for gaming if you end up with 2400mhz you might and probably will loosing FPS

 

Like example you might get 70fps in 1 game with 1866mhz if you go with 2400mhz you might get 60fps

 

never understand why but having more FPS is a good thing that's why you see a lot games uses 1866mhz 

[GhostWindGamer]

Have a look at this and see if it takes your fancy

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/GnBy8d

[GhostWindGamer]

Or if you can go a bit over budget

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/882zpg

[HenryDays]

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£161.94 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H55 57.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£49.00 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: ASRock Z87M Extreme4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£76.87 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£63.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Intel 530 Series 80GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£65.05 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£69.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X 4GB WINDFORCE Video Card  (£161.12 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Case: Corsair 350D MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£69.00 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: Corsair RM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£77.40 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £794.36

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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This exceed a little bit , but there are things that u can remove do lower the price , like the WD black 

[MrBaker89]

Have a look at this and see if it takes your fancy

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/GnBy8d

 

Hmmm not sure about the processor tbh

[uhMayzedHD]

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£134.99 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.86 @ CCL Computers) 

Motherboard: Asus Z87-C ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£99.21 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£69.98 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£83.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 4GB Dual-X Video Card  (£149.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case  (£63.52 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£80.46 @ Amazon UK) 

Total: £707.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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I would go with Corsair H80i or Corsair H100i 

I never like those things and I find these a better choice of cooling and plus it make your case look cleaner since you have a window case

 

But this is just me. it's up you this is way I go plus it look more clean if I would have a window case

[GhostWindGamer]

Hmmm not sure about the processor tbh

Over clock that thing and it will be a beast

[Sklo]

Lower the PSU to 600 watts.

Cpu cooler could turn out usefull.

250gb enough? maybe go for a HHD/SDD combination?

[MrBaker89]

Over clock that thing and it will be a beast

 

Small amount of Cache and it's only 2 cores.... Am i being close minded lol

[MrBaker89]

Lower the PSU to 600 watts.

Cpu cooler could turn out usefull.

250gb enough? maybe go for a HHD/SDD combination?

 

At the moment I wont be storing anything on the SSD except windows and a couple games, about a month or 2 and i'll be adding another SSD probably 500GB 

[GhostWindGamer]

Small amount of Cache and it's only 2 cores.... Am i being close minded lol

Trust me dude the pentium anniversary edition can achieve insane over clocks it's well worth the price

[MrBaker89]

Trust me dude the pentium anniversary edition can achieve insane over clocks it's well worth the price

 

Hmmm... I'm a hard one to convince  

 

HyperThreading? worth getting a chip with it for gaming ? or useless unless encoding etc

[MrBaker89]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD FX-9590 4.7GHz 8-Core OEM/Tray Processor  (£155.94 @ Scan.co.uk) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£78.88 @ CCL Computers) 

Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  (£103.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£69.98 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£83.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB DirectCU II  Video Card  (£221.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case  (£63.52 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£80.46 @ Amazon UK) 

Total: £858.75

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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Updated spec... If I wait a month or so I can afford this spec... 

[listinglazilyleft]

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD FX-9590 4.7GHz 8-Core OEM/Tray Processor  (£155.94 @ Scan.co.uk) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£78.88 @ CCL Computers) 

Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  (£103.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£69.98 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£83.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB DirectCU II  Video Card  (£221.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case  (£63.52 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£80.46 @ Amazon UK) 

Total: £858.75

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-15 14:43 BST+0100

 

 

Updated spec... If I wait a month or so I can afford this spec... 

 

The 9590 is a beast, but it's been shown quite a few times that single threaded performance is what counts for gaming, and a Haswell i5 like the 4690k would be just as strong if not better due to single core performance favouring the Haswell chips over the Vishera AMD chips. Adding in the fact that the AM3+ platform is ageing and the newer LGA1150 boards with Z97 chipsets have more modern features such as PCIe 3.0, I'd struggle to recommend a performance AMD like this. Not to mention that you could save a ton of money just by using an different processor because the H100i would no longer be a necessary component for operation! 

[MrBaker89]

So after getting a promotion at work    me and the boss (the mrs) have decided we can go all out (sort of) to get this spec providing it lasts us 3 years minimum... 

 

What do you guys think?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£165.00 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£69.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste  (£11.27 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Motherboard: Asus Z87-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£135.44 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£60.77 @ Ebuyer) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£87.54 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card  (£299.96 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case  (£63.52 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: Corsair RM 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£87.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer  (£12.76 @ CCL Computers) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£70.56 @ Amazon UK) 

Monitor: Asus VS247H-P 23.6" Monitor  (£119.09 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Quick Fire TK Wired Gaming Keyboard  (£74.87 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £1258.76

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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