Why, it's beautiful...

[xvantok]

Hey this is my plan and I am very close to buying my parts - VERY close. All I'm trying to do now is shave a few quid off the build and try to squeeze the most FPS, for games, out of my options. Mainly I'm looking at the power supply and wether I'll need a 500 or 600 watt supply and wether I can pick up a £40 one rather than a £60 one - I don't like the calculators to much as the results fluctuate too much between different calculators. I am also looking to shave a bit of my cooling, mainly the CPU cooling as I'm not sure wether I need to blow £25 on it. I'm doing this as I am looking at a budget of approx. £400 and I am already above it.

Without further ado, here is my plan and boy, isn't it glorious?

GPU

SAPPHIRE AMD R9 280 Graphics Card (3GB, DDR5)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SAPPHIRE-AMD-Graphics-Card-DDR5/dp/B00IRTXPBM/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top#productDetails

Price - £135.00 (Probably going with this GPU)

ZOTAC ZT-61012-10M GeForce GTX 650 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500294&ignorebbr=1

Price - £70.86

Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nvidia-GeForce-DirectCU-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B00DBPKEOI/ref=pd_rhf_gw_s_cp_16_BVST?ie=UTF8&refRID=1YXEYE6QJF30HJBQJK02

Price - £154.99

CPU

AMD FX8350 Black Edition 8 Core Processor (4.0/4.2GHz, 8MB Level 3 Cache, 8MB Level 2 Cache, Socket AM3+, 125W, Retail Boxed)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-FD8350FRHKBOX-FX-8350-FX-Series-Processor/dp/B009O7YUF6/ref=sr_1_cc_1?tag=teksynd-21&s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1417191555&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=amd+8350#productDetails

Price - £126.30

AMD FX8320 Black Edition 8 Core (3.5/4.0GHz, 8MB Level 3 Cache, 8MB Level 2 Cache, Socket AM3+, 125W, Retail Boxed)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-FX8320-Edition-4-0GHz-Socket/dp/B009O7YU56/ref=pd_cp_computers_1

Price - £102.30 (probably going with this CPU)

Mother Board

GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128651&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=10&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo%20

Price - £64.34

Hard Drive

Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840&ignorebbr=1

Price - £35.43 (Probably go with this Hard Drive)

WD BLACK SERIES WD1003FZEX 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236625

Price - £48.30

RAM

HyperX 8 GB 1600 MHz CL9 DDR3 HyperX Beast Desktop Memory Kit (2 x 4GB) - Intel XMP

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00A77202C#customerReviews

Price - £66.18

Case

DEEPCOOL TESSERACT BF Mid Tower Computer Case SGCC+PLASTIC+RUBBER COATING

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811853003&cm_re=Deep_Cool_Tessaract-_-11-853-003-_-Product

Price - £19.32

PSU

Corsair Builder Series CXM 600W Modular 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX/EPS PSU

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Builder-Series-Bronze-Supply/dp/B009RMP44O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419386016&sr=8-1&keywords=corsair+cx600

Price - £62.99

Cooling

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (120mm)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooler-Master-Hyper-212-120mm/dp/B0068OI7T8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419386283&sr=8-1&keywords=Hyper+212

£25.54

Sub total

£445 Approx

I will be using this setup with 1-2 monitors for gaming but also for productivity (and maybe a bit of content creation) and I would like to be playing games at 1080p at high settings.

Cheers and if you can suggest any tip for building I'm all ears.

Cheers

Xvantok

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UPDATE

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Well the shaving gone pretty average.... I have decided to go with the AMD FX 8320 over the 8350 and just over clock it up to 4.0Ghz and have added in an optical drive and sad reader to my build however my case... Is... well it doesn't exist on PC part picker which is very annoying as it means I can't make one (also nor is my RAM for some reason!?) so can anyone help me out with picking out a nice ATX Case around £20 (+/- £2-3) that has good cooling and maybe while your at it find a better CPU cooler at a price range of maybe £15-20? I also worked out what power supply to go with.

cheers for the help.

[brob]

A pcpartpicker list is much easier to read and will have a good max power draw estimate. One can limit the selections to those from one or a few vendors.

[Laputacake]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£135.59 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 V2 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£39.37 @ Scan.co.uk)

Memory: Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£42.97 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.99 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card (£159.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk)

Case: Zalman ZM-T1 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£19.99)

Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£37.74 @ Scan.co.uk)

Total: £475.24

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-24 02:40 GMT+0000

[TheKDub]

for the GPU the 280 is probably your best option of the three, though personally I would go with the 760 as I prefer Nvidia, and the 760 is still decently powerful.

[Laputacake]

for the GPU the 280 is probably your best option of the three, though personally I would go with the 760 as I prefer Nvidia.

good idea. thought they were a bit more expensive now but they have dropped a bit

[xvantok]

Well the shaving gone pretty average.... I have decided to go with the AMD FX 8320 over the 8350 and just over clock it up to 4.0Ghz and have added in an optical drive and sad reader to my build however my case... Is... well it doesn't exist on PC part picker which is very annoying as it means I can't make one (also nor is my RAM for some reason!?) so can anyone help me out with picking out a nice ATX Case around £20 (+/- £2-3) that has good cooling and maybe while your at it find a better CPU cooler at a price range of maybe £15-20? I also worked out what power supply to go with.

cheers for the help.

[brob]

Well the shaving gone pretty average.... I have decided to go with the AMD FX 8320 over the 8350 and just over clock it up to 4.0Ghz and have added in an optical drive and sad reader to my build however my case... Is... well it doesn't exist on PC part picker which is very annoying as it means I can't make one (also nor is my RAM for some reason!?) so can anyone help me out with picking out a nice ATX Case around £20 (+/- £2-3) that has good cooling and maybe while your at it find a better CPU cooler at a price range of maybe £15-20? I also worked out what power supply to go with.

cheers for the help.

 

In fact the memory kit is available from several vendors in uk.pcpartpicker.com.

 

While there are no vendors of the case, the case itself can be added and a custom price entered. Use the Search field in the upper right corner.

 

One can also enter parts that are not in pcpartpicker using the Add Custom Part section at the bottom of the build list.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Memory: Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£66.36 @ Amazon UK)

Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  (£19.27)

Total: £85.63

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-25 08:50 GMT+0000

[xvantok]

In fact the memory kit is available from several vendors in uk.pcpartpicker.com. While there are no vendors of the case, the case itself can be added and a custom price entered. Use the Search field in the upper right corner. One can also enter parts that are not in pcpartpicker using the Add Custom Part section at the bottom of the build list. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchantMemory: Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£66.36 @ Amazon UK)Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  (£19.27)Total: £85.63Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-25 08:50 GMT+0000

Cheers for the help man - it helps as this is going to be my first build and I hope my intro into computing and stufff