Helping with building first rig

charliewallace95

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Approximate Purchase Date: End of the month - Early April

Budget Range: 500-1000 all together.

System Usage from Most to Least Important: GAMING!

Are you buying a monitor: Yes

Parts to Upgrade: I need everything, starting from scratch.

Do you need to buy OS: Yes

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: UK websites, no preferable ones though.

Location: London, Essex, England.

Parts Preferences: N/A.

Overclocking: No.

SLI or Crossfire: No.

Your Monitor Resolution: 1280x1024

I've never built my own PC so talk to me like i'm a retard, Spanish or a three year old.

I want a PC for gaming, WoW, Guild Wars 2, Skyrim, DayZ, Total War games, stuff like this.

Would like to get the money down as low as I can so please try and make short cuts, I will be drastically upgrading it in September when I get 5000 of my nan.

It's not as if I want to play very high demanding games.

Thanks for your help guys!
 

mikerockett

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This should be good for you, dont really see the need to cut corners now to spend later.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.94 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£24.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£96.95 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£46.99 @ Dabs)
Storage: Crucial M4 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£84.20 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£87.54 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card (£294.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Antec Eleven Hundred ATX Full Tower Case (£92.20 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£73.24 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.45 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £979.50
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-13 19:13 GMT+0000)
 

mikerockett

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Just noticed you need everything included.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£143.40 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£65.70 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£37.39 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£52.25 @ Aria PC)
Storage: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£101.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Club 3D Radeon HD 7870 XT 2GB Video Card (£171.62 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£39.95 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£34.99 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.45 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£67.19 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: Dell U2312HM 23.0" Monitor (£162.37 @ CCL Computers)
Keyboard: Logitech K400 Wireless Slim Keyboard w/Touchpad (£35.99 @ Amazon UK)
Mouse: Logitech G9x Wired Laser Mouse (£71.82 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £996.06
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-13 19:29 GMT+0000)
 
why would you get such a low resolution for a gaming pc?

1280 x 1024 ?

should be at least 1920 x 1080

and thats a pretty decent list given by mikerocket

though if you never plan to overclock you dont need the k version cpu

unless its near enough the same price as non k version

also i would recommend this ram--great ram no big heatsinks to cause any problems

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-017-SA

though personally i wouldnt spend out that amount to upgrade it later

i would wait till september and do it full on then
 

avacadobread

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