Im Building A Gaming PC And Need Help/Opinions

[oX5Dylan5Ox]

So I'm Fairly New To PC Building And Have Plans For Building A High Performance Gaming PC Trying To Keep Under £800 To Hopefully At Best Run Games Like Fallout 4 At Decent Settings.

Here Is What I've Got So Far I'm Not Sure If They Are All Compatible, I Think They Are, And Weather It Would Run Games Like Fallout 4 So Any Feedback Is Greatly Appreciated.

 

CPU: Intel i5 4690 £177.92

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-H81M-S2H (Not Sure On This) £38.99

RAM: HyperX FURY 16 GB (2x8GB) £65.99

SSD: Kingston Digital 240GB SSDNow V300 SATA £59.98

HDD: Seagate 2TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s £58.00

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC ACX 2.0+ (4GB Vram Version) £170

PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 550 W £70.97

Optical Drive: Samsung SATA DVD (Honestly Don't Care About This) £8.75

OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit £24.29

Case: NZXT H440 White (This Is My Perfect Case So If Possible Keep This The Same) £105.10

 

Also I Currently Have A Dual Monitor Setup Which Might Interfere With Motherboard Ports.

All Of This Roughly Comes To £779.99 Which Is Perfectly Fine And In My Budget So I Don't Really Need Any Price Lowering.

Please Suggest Ideas Or Compatibility Issues.

Thanks In Advance

[GDRRiley]

grab a better SSD and how much more is it to go to 6th gen. get windows 10 from somewhere like kingun for under 30$ and then get a better GPU

[DarkBlade2117]

Assuming the GTX 960 is much cheaper than it was originally, going to base this off of what I know and not double checking pricing.

 

Grab something like a Crucial BX100 SSD, Sandisk also has some cheap SSD's that perform ( as from experience ) good enough to get that SSD experience.

As for the CPU, just go for Skylake, even if you just get like an i5-6500, you'll have the chance to upgrade to a a locked or even an unlocked kaby lake processor.

Just get a B150 or H170 board that fits your budegt and color scheme along with an i5-6500/i5-6600 and 8GBs of the cheapest RAM ( with a heat sink if you want one )

I'd consider myself an average user, I game and have 4-10 tabs open ( at max 16 ), 8GBs of RAM is not enough but just get 8 now, and get another 8 later, it'll be worth it to get skylake now, plus RAM is super easy to upgrade.

As for the GPU, again, Going to pull a wild card here and ASSUME the RX 470 is the same price, which is roughly R9 380x with a pretty hefty OC range ( I think? ) for about the same price.

[oX5Dylan5Ox]

Sorry Should Of Added The Prices Earlier But Is There A Significant Difference Between The 4th Gen 4690 And The 6th Gen i5 6500 Because if Its Notable Ill Switch To That And Im Kind Of Trying To Stick To Nvidias Line Of Graphics Cards and for the ssd im planning to run my windows on it and would 120gb be enough? But Thank You For The Feedback

 

[Energycore]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£213.34 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Shadow Rock Slim 67.8 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler  (£35.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£97.74 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: *G.Skill Ripjaws 4 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£43.85 @ More Computers)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£53.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£41.58 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: *Sapphire Radeon RX 480 4GB NITRO+ 4G Video Card  (£211.04 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£58.65 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£48.28 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £804.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-08 02:26 BST+0100

 

You Don’t Need a Product Key to Install and Use Windows 10

 

[Energycore]

21 minutes ago, oX5Dylan5Ox said:

Sorry Should Of Added The Prices Earlier But Is There A Significant Difference Between The 4th Gen 4690 And The 6th Gen i5 6500 Because if Its Notable Ill Switch To That And Im Kind Of Trying To Stick To Nvidias Line Of Graphics Cards and for the ssd im planning to run my windows on it and would 120gb be enough? But Thank You For The Feedback

 

120GB would be enough. Don't buy the kingston one it's terrible.

[oX5Dylan5Ox]

Thank You I Think I'm Very Close To The Final Build Plans

 

CPU: Intel Core 6M Cache,3.30 GHz Processor (i5-6600) (Turbo Boost 3.9 GHz) £194.99
MOBO: Asus H170 Pro Gaming Motherboard (Socket 1151, DDR4, S-ATA 600, ATX, PCI Express 3.0, USB 3.1 Boost, Stainless Steel Back I/O) £104.99
RAM: HyperX FURY Series 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz CL10 DIMM Memory Module - Black  £33.43
SSD: Crucial BX100 120 GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - Grey £65.43
HDD: Seagate 2TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST2000DM001) £58.00

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Graphics Card (4 GB, GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0, HDMI, DVI-I, 3 x Display Port) £170
Case: NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case with Side Window and 4 Quiet Fans for PC - White/Black (Previous model) £105.10
PSU: XFX P1-500B-XTFR, P1-500B-XTFR £45.67
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit OEM £24.29
Total: £801.90

[antisleep]

8 hours ago, oX5Dylan5Ox said:

Thank You I Think I'm Very Close To The Final Build Plans

 

CPU: Intel Core 6M Cache,3.30 GHz Processor (i5-6600) (Turbo Boost 3.9 GHz) £194.99
MOBO: Asus H170 Pro Gaming Motherboard (Socket 1151, DDR4, S-ATA 600, ATX, PCI Express 3.0, USB 3.1 Boost, Stainless Steel Back I/O) £104.99
RAM: HyperX FURY Series 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz CL10 DIMM Memory Module - Black  £33.43
SSD: Crucial BX100 120 GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - Grey £65.43
HDD: Seagate 2TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST2000DM001) £58.00

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Graphics Card (4 GB, GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0, HDMI, DVI-I, 3 x Display Port) £170
Case: NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case with Side Window and 4 Quiet Fans for PC - White/Black (Previous model) £105.10
PSU: XFX P1-500B-XTFR, P1-500B-XTFR £45.67
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit OEM £24.29
Total: £801.90

you have a ddr3 ram w/c isn't compatible

not a lot of difference between the 6600 and 6500 so save £20 and go with the latter

XFX XT series psu are bad

that SSD doesn't have a stable price, for £65 you get a 240gb SSD -PNY CS1311, Trion 150, BX200, SSD Plus, etc

get a <£80 H170/B150/H110 mobo

why the previous version of the h440?

[Serpius]

Go with this computer build.

 

Faster processor, better RAM modules, better SSD, and an excellent CPU cooler.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£213.34 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9x65 33.8 CFM CPU Cooler  (£34.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Asus Z170-P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£102.77 @ More Computers) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£61.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Sandisk Ultra II 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£64.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 370 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  (£146.35 @ More Computers) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-03 Blue ATX Mid Tower Case  (£54.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£85.44 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £764.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-08 12:06 BST+0100

[antisleep]

i5-6500 / GTX 1060

 

PCPartPicker part list

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£177.90 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI H170A PC Mate ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£81.99 @ Amazon UK) 

^This has similar features to that £100 mobo you have currently have
Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£33.07 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: PNY CS1311 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£56.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£59.97 @ CCL Computers) 

^Do you really need 2TB right away?
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GAMING Video Card  (£238.99 @ Amazon UK) 

^Was gonna put the 480/470 but you're obviously team green
Case: NZXT H440 (Glossy White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) 

^Newer version
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£50.51 @ CCL Computers) 

^XFX TS Pro Series (9/10 by jonnyguru)
Total: £794.41 / no OS

 

Ways to save £

-1TB HDD: WD Caviar Blue 1TB £41.58

-getting mATX H110 mobo: MSI H110M Pro-VD £47.78 (although this would make the interior of your case look kinda empty)

-If you're getting extra desperate: 120gb SSD: PNY CS1311 120gb SSD £34.99

^I wouldn't recommend 120gb cuz after all your important apps are installed you can only fit 1, maybe 2 AAA games in there. This is coming from someone that suffers from that very problem.

[antisleep]

6 minutes ago, Buzzsaw said:

Go with this computer build.

 

Faster processor, better RAM modules, better SSD, and an excellent CPU cooler.

Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 370 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  (£146.35 @ More Computers) 

I think you skimped on the most important part. He'll have to turn the settings down to medium-low in order to get good fps's in fallout 4 with that.

[oX5Dylan5Ox]

 

15 minutes ago, antisleep said:

i5-6500 / GTX 1060

 

PCPartPicker part list

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£177.90 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI H170A PC Mate ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£81.99 @ Amazon UK) 

^This has similar features to that £100 mobo you have currently have
Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£33.07 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: PNY CS1311 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£56.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£59.97 @ CCL Computers) 

^Do you really need 2TB right away?
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GAMING Video Card  (£238.99 @ Amazon UK) 

^Was gonna put the 480/470 but you're obviously team green
Case: NZXT H440 (Glossy White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) 

^Newer version
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£50.51 @ CCL Computers) 

^XFX TS Pro Series (9/10 by jonnyguru)
Total: £794.41 / no OS

 

Ways to save £

-1TB HDD: WD Caviar Blue 1TB £41.58

-getting mATX H110 mobo: MSI H110M Pro-VD £47.78 (although this would make the interior of your case look kinda empty)

-If you're getting extra desperate: 120gb SSD: PNY CS1311 120gb SSD £34.99

^I wouldn't recommend 120gb cuz after all your important apps are installed you can only fit 1, maybe 2 AAA games in there. This is coming from someone that suffers from that very problem.

I Think That Is Pretty Much The Perfect Build Right Now For Me Btw The I Would Of Got A 1TB HDD But It Was An Extra £10 For The 2TB So I Chose That But Thanks For The Help

[antisleep]

21 minutes ago, oX5Dylan5Ox said:

I Think That Is Pretty Much The Perfect Build Right Now For Me Thanks For The Help

 

Thanks.

 

...tho lemme just correct one thing, nothing too big - the "9/10 by jonnyguru" i said earlier, that was actually the 80+ Gold TS650. the one on my list was the bronze TS but it's still a good PSU nonetheless, the best >500W for under £60