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rhysneville

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http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1kQIj
My friend wants to get into PC gaming but he has no experience and no knowledge of it at all so I'm going to help him, although I've only been gaming for a year.

His budget it around £800, that would be ideal anyway.
He's not interested in OC'ing, (even though it is an i5-3570k, so any other recommendations would be great, even if it's AMD that's not a problem at all)
But yeah, he's not interested in OC'ing because he doesnt' want it all to get too complicated, and he doesn't want to risk his PC by oc'ing too much.

Anyways, what do you guys think about that setup? What would you change?
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£179.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£67.38 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£58.00 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£44.39 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£327.34 @ CCL Computers)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£34.74 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair Enthusiast 650W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£76.38 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £788.22
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-26 15:20 BST+0100)

newer gen CPU, rest is more or less same as ur build
 
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rhysneville

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Looks cool! Think I'd go with a zalman z11 plus case though, it's awesome, and I'd change the GPU slightly and maybe the psu to a Corasair CX750, hows that?
Also, for an extra £14 I can get a 2TB 7200rpm Seagate barracuda HDD.
 
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If there's no overclocking involved, no reason to get a 4670K. Plus pairing it with a B85 motherboard defeats the purpose of owning an unlocked CPU as you can't overclock it. I'd do something like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4430 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£140.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£68.97 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£68.16 @ Dabs)
Storage: OCZ Vector Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£104.54 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£49.32 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£220.97 @ Dabs)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£60.06 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£75.96 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.87 @ Aria PC)
Total: £800.84
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-26 17:16 BST+0100)
 
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