First Gaming PC Build

[ToXIc Dev]

I have wanted a gaming PC for ages and I have decided to build my own so i can customize everything, I would like to know if this system would be able to run games like BF4, GTA 5, DayZ and other modern games at decent settings and framerates.

 

My budget is £500

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£47.98 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: MSI Z87M GAMING Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£79.04 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£28.19 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (£148.51 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£30.36 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.15 @ Aria PC) 

Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer  (£10.46 @ Aria PC) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£72.35 @ Aria PC) 

Total: £483.98

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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I will probably upgrade the CPU and ram at a later date.

[the jolly roger]

you should get 8gb of ram

[ToXIc Dev]

you should get 8gb of ram

I Probably will at a later date but is everything else good and will it be able to run modern games well?

[the jolly roger]

I Probably will at a later date but is everything else good and will it be able to run modern games well?

everything looks nice and dandy, you should be able to play most games at ultra setting 1080p no problem.

 

so live with 4gb of ram now and later get another 4gb stick?????

[the jolly roger]

I Probably will at a later date but is everything else good and will it be able to run modern games well?

almost forgot, you should get a z97 board, a verty good and cheap one is the MSI z97 PC Mate

[SimpleG]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£47.98 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: MSI H81M-E33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£34.32 @ CCL Computers) 

Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£28.19 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£28.19 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: A-Data Premier SP610 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£52.63 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (£140.79 @ Ebuyer) 

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£30.36 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.15 @ Aria PC) 

Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer  (£10.46 @ Aria PC) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£72.35 @ Aria PC) 

Total: £512.36

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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[ToXIc Dev]

almost forgot, you should get a z97 board, a verty good and cheap one is the MSI z97 PC Mate

What is the benefit of the z97 over the z87.

[SimpleG]

What is the benefit of the z97 over the z87.

newer version, you won't need to update bios. But I would suggest H81, as you can still OC G3258 with it

[the jolly roger]

newer version, you won't need to update bios. But I would suggest H81, as you can still OC G3258 with it

yea true but you need to do a BIOS update, that isnt hard to do

[Guest]

The R9 280 should be a bit faster than the GTX 760, and you get 3GB Vram rather than 2GB.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£47.98 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£67.73 @ Ebuyer) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£61.04 @ CCL Computers) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (£140.79 @ Ebuyer) 

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£30.36 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.15 @ Aria PC) 

Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer  (£10.46 @ Aria PC) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£72.35 @ Aria PC) 

Total: £497.80

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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[ToXIc Dev]

newer version, you won't need to update bios. But I would suggest H81, as you can still OC G3258 with it

I was using the z87 because i might want to sli in the future and it has 4 ram slots and i was using a Nvidia card because i wanted to use tools like shadowplay.

[Guest]

I was using the z87 because i might want to sli in the future and it has 4 ram slots and i was using a Nvidia card because i wanted to use tools like shadowplay.

When you say SLI you don't mean with the GTX 760 do you ? As that wouldn't be a good idea.

 

Also you would need a better psu for SLI. The EVGA isn't really cut out for that.

[SteveGrabowski]

You'd have a much better gaming system paying £80 for the CPU and £50 for the motherboard instead of vice versa. You could get an i3-4130 and a H81 or B85 board. I'd stick with the GTX 760 over an R9 series with any CPU less than a quad core though after seeing Eurogamer's results for COD AW and their recommendations for Nvidia being a better match with dual core CPUs.

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-face-off

[ToXIc Dev]

When you say SLI you don't mean with the GTX 760 do you ? As that wouldn't be a good idea.

 

Also you would need a better psu for SLI. The EVGA isn't really cut out for that.

 

Ahh ok, I might go for the r9 instead the as it is cheaper anyway and will probably give better performance, One of the things pulling me towards nvidia cards is like i said shadowplay.

 

Is there an alternative for AMD Cards?

[Guest]

Ahh ok, I might go for the r9 instead the as it is cheaper anyway and will probably give better performance, One of the things pulling me towards nvidia cards is like i said shadowplay is there an alternative for AMD Cards.

AMD has something called GVR (Game Video Recorder)

 

http://raptr.com/TinyDino/news/53d6730c16b46f0af3/introducing-gvr-and-instant-replays-capture-and-share-gameplay-video-with-nearly-no-performance-impact-

 

http://raptr.com/download

 

I don't know how good it is, as I have never used it (Or Shadowplay for that matter)

[ToXIc Dev]

I decided to put £50 more into the build and decided to use a quad core CPU instead, How will this build run modern games?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£135.00 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus B85M-G Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£45.59 @ More Computers)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£54.36 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (£140.79 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£30.36 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.15 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer  (£10.46 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£72.35 @ Aria PC)
Total: £556.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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[Guest]

I decided to put £50 more into the build and decided to use a quad core CPU instead, How will this build run modern games?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£135.00 @ Aria PC)

Motherboard: Asus B85M-G Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£45.59 @ More Computers)

Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£54.36 @ CCL Computers)

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card  (£140.79 @ Ebuyer)

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£30.36 @ CCL Computers)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.15 @ Aria PC)

Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer  (£10.46 @ Aria PC)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£72.35 @ Aria PC)

Total: £556.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-14 22:47 GMT+0000

That should be a pretty good system for most games.

 

You would be better with 2 x 4GB Ram, so that you get dual channel mode.

 

This Kingston Kit is £5 more, but it is a bit faster.

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-memory-hx318c10fwk28

[ToXIc Dev]

I have changed the graphics card and this is the rig I am going to build.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£135.00 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus B85M-G Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£45.59 @ More Computers)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (£56.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card  (£174.58 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£30.36 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.15 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer  (£10.46 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£72.35 @ Aria PC)
Total: £591.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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