1080p gaming build £750 uk

[arazmatron]

I've put together what i think will be a pretty decent build given my budget.  what do you guys think?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£155.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£64.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£29.49 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£65.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card  (£269.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£34.52 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£70.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)  (£59.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £751.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-09 04:08 GMT+0000

  

[Guest]

Go with the R9 390 instead. It is much better within that price range

[Bcuber]

You might want to add a 1-2 TB mechanical drive for more storage because that SSD will fill up quick. RAM is good for gaming but video editing and things like that need more RAM.

[Fulgrim]

R9 390 > GTX 970

Also, you need at least a 1TB/2TB storage drive.

 

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£149.99 @ Novatech) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£64.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£29.49 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£49.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£69.36 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card  (£259.55 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£34.52 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£67.16 @ Amazon UK) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)  (£59.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £785.04
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-09 04:30 GMT+0000

 

[arazmatron]

I know i should have a mechanical drive for storage but £750 is my upper limit.  I wa planning to just use the ssd for now and add a mechanical drive next month when i get payed.   I will look into getting the R9 390

[Megazero]

You may need additional HDD, 250GB is really really small, especially when about 60-80-ish is already gone because of the OS

Why a Z97 board with a non-overclockable CPU? You could get a cheaper H97 or smt mobo with that CPU since you cant overclock it anyway.

The GTX 970 and the R9 390 is actually pretty much neck to neck at 1080p, at 1440p+ the R9 390 is slightly better, overall I still choose Nvidia over AMD until something else happen, but it's up to you. Here's some benchmark comparing them:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sapphire-nitro-r9-390-8g-d5,4245.html
http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/1984-amd-r9-390-380-benchmark-review/Page-2

[sohaibshtf]

Get a H97 Asus Motherboard,  you can't overclock this cpu so you don't need a Z97 chipset and as other people said too R9 390 will be good in the coming future.,  and yeah get HDD too