Building Gaming PC - £800 / $1200 Budget Average.

aj2013

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Hello guys. I am soon to be getting a lot of cash do to selling bunch of stuff, and decided to throw it all on a beast of a PC as I spend most my time on it anyway.

Right now I currently have a AMD athlon 3.1 Ghz Dual Core, 2GB Ram, AMD 6700, and it has done the job for me but It's getting a bit outdated now.

I will be playing games like Skyrim for example. I want to be able to play on high graphics with solid 60 fps. No jutters, random lagg, worrying about turning this or that down and tweaking, just setting everything on max and boom dive in with my new computer.

So what's the best? Also I'm from U.K so that newegg website is no good for me. I was thinking something like an i5, with 2 graphics cards doing that crossfire thing, I dunno.

What's the best guys? Aslong as it has 8GB ram, no need for more, and hard drive idc it can 500gb, I can always upgrade later. But obviously it has to be that SSD as I hear there good. I just want max cpu+gpu for quality if you understand.

Thanks!
 
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CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£179.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£22.85 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme6 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£145.94 @ Dabs)
Memory: GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£53.99 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£89.97 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.78 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£219.00 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£219.00 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.89 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: SeaSonic M12II 750W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£88.50 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£13.15 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.59 @ Aria PC)
Total: £1202.65
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-29 23:38 BST+0100)

Here's an awesome build with plenty of graphics horsepower and a quick CPU.
 
babernets build look sgood but remember to check prices on the retailers sites as the graphics cards are £10 cheaper from Aria so likely other stuff is. If you plan to game above 1080 then you may want to look at cards with more RAM (note Sli/crossfire does not double the usable RAM).
 


2GB of VRAM for a 1080 display is fine. Now if you want triple displays or a large display, 2560X1600, then you may need to get the 4GB versions.
 

aj2013

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I was thinking maybe after I got the computer out the way, I would set up 3, monitors with native resolution of 1440x900. I'm playing on 1080 right now but it's just too big, at least on the lesser, I would still feel immersed.
 


Yes, for triple monitors, go 4GB on the graphics cards.

 

aj2013

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Ah I looked through everything you mentioned, but it comes up to 1200 pound lol, I meant 800 pound, or the 1200 in dollars. My bad if you got confused. But because I'll use triple monitors, dual 4gb GPU is a must? if so, I can live with 1 monitor, 19inch.
 
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Remove Qty. Product Name Quickcode Price (exc. VAT) Line total
Cooler Master K380 Black Midi Tower Window Gaming Case #53455 £ 30.08 £ 30.08
PALIT JetStream GeForce GTX 760 OC 2048MB GDDR5 Graphics Card #56372 £ 174.16 £ 174.16
MSI Z77A-G45 Intel Z77 Socket 1155 DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard #53350 £ 68.99 £ 68.99
750W XFX Pro Core Edition 80PLUS Bronze Power Supply [P1-750S-NLB9] #53992 £ 60.14 £ 60.14
250GB Samsung 840 Series 2.5" SATA 6GB/s (SATA-III) Solid State Drive SSD This product is not available at the counter #53638 £ 93.95 £ 93.95
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivy Bridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail This product is not available at the counter #49755 £ 139.99 £ 139.99
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You can add another GPU later also windows not included so add £70 for that there is no HDD or RAM as I think you have that also case was chosen at random so select whatever one you want.