A gaming build for £900

NokkonWud · 25 Apr 2014 at 13:53

Hi there, I recently upgraded my PC quite successfully, so much so a friend has decided he now has to have one, which is great for me as we hadn't gamed together on PC for getting on towards a decade!

So he's put together a £900 budget. He only needs Case, Motherboard, CPU, cooling, PSU, Memory and GPU.

Now, he's pretty set that he wants two things:
1) Case: Corsair Carbide 540
2) Cooling: Corsair H105

The latter I have, and he likes how it looks. He's also set on a cube case (he currently has a MountainMods UFO and he is thinking about selling it and going for this Corsair. He's obviously set on cubes!

These parts are part of the £900 budget. So they should be included.

The rest would be great for some advice. Thank you.

NokkonWud · 25 Apr 2014 at 14:03

For what it's worth, I was thinking something like this:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Radeon R9 280X DirectCUII TOP 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Arctic White (CC-9011048-WW) £115.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £109.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2133HC11ADC01) £59.99
Total : £895.49 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Any recommendations?

lee32uk · 25 Apr 2014 at 14:12

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £249.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Arctic White (CC-9011048-WW) £115.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Fully Modular Power Supply £95.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/8X) £65.99
Total : £897.89 (includes shipping : ).

tamzzy · 25 Apr 2014 at 14:27

no sli/xfire capability
but you get a 290 instead.
matched white/black build

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £329.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Arctic White (CC-9011048-WW) £115.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £65.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £49.99
Total : £904.93 (includes shipping : ).

NokkonWud · 25 Apr 2014 at 15:33

It's not entirely set on being an Intel build, my friend was looking at the AMD FX-9370 too. Is that worth looking at in comparison?

tamzzy · 25 Apr 2014 at 15:37

NokkonWud said:
It's not entirely set on being an Intel build, my friend was looking at the AMD FX-9370 too. Is that worth looking at in comparison?

no.

lee32uk · 25 Apr 2014 at 15:39

NokkonWud said:
It's not entirely set on being an Intel build, my friend was looking at the AMD FX-9370 too. Is that worth looking at in comparison?

No

They are just overclocked 8320/50 chips and they run Hot, and are very power hungry.

CrixxzeH · 25 Apr 2014 at 16:01

tamzzy said:
no sli/xfire capability
but you get a 290 instead.
matched white/black build

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £329.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Arctic White (CC-9011048-WW) £115.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £65.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £49.99
Total : £904.93 (includes shipping : ).

Spending more on the case than the mobo, for performance I would grab a g1 sniper for an exta £19.

tamzzy · 25 Apr 2014 at 16:23

CrixxzeH said:
Spending more on the case than the mobo

i agree, but read 1st post.

Idleman · 25 Apr 2014 at 17:23

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £249.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Arctic White (CC-9011048-WW) £115.99
1 x MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £106.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Silverstone Strider Essential Gold - 700W (SST-ST70F-ESG) £71.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
Total : £870.49 (includes shipping : £8.00).

stulid · 25 Apr 2014 at 17:24

G1 Sniper has better sound than G45

NokkonWud · 25 Apr 2014 at 17:35

Thanks all.

Stulid, you're a bit of a wizard, any recommendations please?

stulid · 25 Apr 2014 at 17:49

Wait a few weeks, new chipsets and new CPUs soon after that.