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Hi, this is my first PC build any suggestions or recommendations are much appreciated. This is what I have so far, working towards a £800-850 ($1210-1290) for the PC a monitor and OS for 1080p gaming mainly.

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/KR2J3C
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/KR2J3C/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£139.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£32.34 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£35.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£53.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card  (£229.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master Silencio 550 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£59.99 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£37.99 @ Amazon UK)

 

Total: £590.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-28 21:20 BST+0100

 

Need suggestions for the mother board, would quite like on board wifi and any other quite case.

Also looking to buy the parts soon so if you know of any sales let me know

 

Thanks

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Do not get that hard drive or ssd, That SSD is just slow as shit, and that hard drive is unreliable. Seagate drives have higher failure rates compared to hitachi, toshiba, western digital. Especially the 2-4 tb ones.

I second this 

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https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/631048-psu-tier-list-updated/ Tier Breakdown (My understanding)--1 Godly, 2 Great, 3 Good, 4 Average, 5 Meh, 6 Bad, 7 Awful

 

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Do not get that hard drive or ssd, That SSD is just slow as shit, and that hard drive is unreliable. Seagate drives have higher failure rates compared to hitachi, toshiba, western digital. Especially the 2-4 tb ones.

This is misinformative and subjective, Seagate HDDs aren't any worse for reliability than WD or Hitachi, it's just that so many more are sold by Seagate that the amount of failures is higher compared to other manufacturers.

Dreadnaught: Intel Core i7 970 3.2GHz, Silverstone TD-02, ASUS Rampage III Extreme, Kingston Fury White 24GB 1866MHz, Crucial BX100 250GB + Seagate 2TB SSHD, AMD Radeon Sapphire R9 390 Nitro, NZXT S340 White, Bitfenix Fury 650W, BenQ XL2730Z.

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Hi, this is my first PC build any suggestions or recommendations are much appreciated. This is what I have so far, working towards a £800-850 ($1210-1290) for the PC

Go for a 390 over a 970 for sure

Kingston SSDs are not to be trusted, they did a bait and switch on their controllers

Seagate hard drives are kind of known for failure, which is why they're so cheap compared to WD, usually.

 

And you'll probably just want a slightly higher wattage PSU

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

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What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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