Need help on £1000 gaming build ~

cheetow

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Nov 10, 2012
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Approximate Purchase Date: This week

Budget Range: £1000 max

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming (dota2/CoD), surfing the web and the odd photoshop job for college

Are you buying a monitor: No

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: UK Based retailers (Overclocker.co.uk)

Location: UK

Parts Preferences: Intel for the CPU and Radeon for the GPU

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

Additional Comments: First time building a PC and I want to make sure that all the parts are compatible with each other, I also wanted to make sure this build would work fine with 2 monitors, although I will only be using the main monitor for gaming. Also one thing that confuses me is all the different versions of the 7950, I dont understand why some are more expensive when they are the same GPU could someone explain the differences between a £250 version and a £300 one, thanks.

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor - £179.99

ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard - £101.99

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory - £47.99

Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive - £56.99

Crucial M4 64GB 2.5" Solid State Disk - £59.99 (Is this SSD fine for just booting windows or will I need more space, for example 128 GB?)

MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3GB - £259.99 (Is this version of the 7950 good?)

Corsair 650D ATX Mid Tower Case - £149.99

OCZ ZT 650W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply - £67.99

Samsung DVD/CD Drive - £10.99

Total price - £959.32 Including shipping/VAT

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/RGrT - Heres a general list of the parts, the gpu isnt the same cause they dont have it on the website.

Is this build decent and will all the parts work together fine?
 

thasan1

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well your 7950 is quite good.i think its 7% better than reference card, because this one is overclocked than the reference one or any other card priced lower than that.and if you are looking fast boot than the m4 64 GB should be enough but if you have enough money then another extra 64 GB will be useful in the future.and it is a decent build , powerful enough take on any games at high res @ max settings.
 

g-unit1111

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That power supply definitely isn't a good choice, and neither is a 64GB for a boot drive.

Here's what I would suggest for your budget:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9B SE2 37.9 CFM CPU Cooler (£37.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£125.50 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£57.91 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: OCZ Vector Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£104.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£56.98 @ Dabs)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card (£310.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Phantom 410 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£94.99 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£76.88 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.28 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1045.48
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-04-19 19:52 BST+0100)