New and first PC build help!

Hugo- · July 20, 2015

Hi, I'm Hugo and I'm 14 years old. I have experience with building computers as I built my cousin and my best friend one about 6 months ago. Now I plan to! I have £1100 to spend (I earn £140 a month at work and my birthday was recent). I need the full setup excluding OS and I will need it for heavy gaming on mainstream titles such as CsGo, LoL, Battlefield 4/ Hardline, GTA V, DayZ, h1Z1, GMod, Witcher 3 etc and I will be doing Photoshop work and editing too. But mainly gaming

Virtual01 · July 20, 2015

Step down to a 4690K and use the money for an SSD instead.

Goodman2265 · July 20, 2015

Seems good but add a 240GB SSD for BF4 (Took me 5 minutes to load the map on a HDD) and your boot time will decrease by ALOT

Goodman2265 · July 20, 2015

This is a better list, Get ths and you are good to go!

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.50 @ Amazon UK)

CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC12DX_BK 68.5 CFM CPU Cooler (£34.94 @ Scan.co.uk)

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£38.48 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£73.60 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.40 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 390 8GB PCS+ Video Card (£249.98 @ Novatech)

Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£52.79 @ Aria PC)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£63.31 @ Amazon UK)

Monitor: LG 25UM55-P 60Hz 25.0" Monitor (£141.01 @ More Computers)

Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow Tournament Edition Wired Gaming Keyboard (£59.95)

Mouse: Razer DeathAdder Chroma Wired Optical Mouse (£59.99 @ Aria PC)

Total: £1065.71

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-20 01:09 BST+0100

The_Stig · July 20, 2015

I agree with the others, try to fit a SSD into that build but otherwise it'll do just fine.

OAcesync · July 20, 2015

Maybe a better PSU like a EVGA GS, XFX XXX/XTR, Antec High Current gamer or a Seasonic one

samcool55 · July 20, 2015

Looks good but you might want to change the kb and mouse.

It's personal but tbh i don't like razer stuff, i would get a steelseries mouse and a corsair/cooler master/steelseries mechanical keyboard.

The switches in the blackwidow are cheap chinese ones, and not as good as real cherry ones that the manufacturers above use.

XxDeadpool67xX · July 20, 2015

Only £140 a month. Where did you work?

Mindstab Thrull · July 20, 2015

For reference: I have a 4770K with a mild overclock on it, 16 GB of RAM and an SSD on Windows 7. Reboot times from the time I double-click my "Restart" icon on my desktop (I have two on my PC - one for shutting down as well) until I come back up is about a minute and a half. On a standard mechanical hard drive you'd be looking closer to five minutes. This includes all the jazz I normally have on startup - drivers, antivirus, Yahoo, AIM, Skype, mIRC, etc. You *will* notice the difference.