1st Gaming system and would like your help.

Jonny17291

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Hey and thanks for taking your time to help, Looking at building my 1st proper gaming PC (choose parts and get the website to put it together) and would like your take on what's best. My budget is £1500 about $3000, Ideally in my logic anyhow I want this PC to last at least 5 years and not have to upgrade it, hence why I want to spend a large about of money 1st on it instead of a £800 or $1500 PC. I've asked on here before about my spec but had a lot of mixed reviews but didn't show the price difference so If you can help. Just like to point out that the site I'm using as many others gives you the PC and than you can configure it with the options they have so I''l add what other options they give if you think that's better.

I want to play all or most games on Ultra settings aka BF4 ect without any issues.
Thanks

Spec -
CPU -

Intel Core i5 4670K 4.3Ghz - Moderate Overclock
Was going to get the i7 4770K but people said its more for editing than gaming an its £90 ($180) more for it.

CPU cooler - Noctua NH-D14 Cooler

this is a big ? for me 50% of people I've asked said get a fan cooler and others said a liquid cooler, Liquid coolers are about £40 ($80) more and well not sure on this one?

Operating System -

Windows 8.1 Pro (64-bit)
No help needed here.

Motherboard -

Asus Maximus VI Hero

2 other options are
Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H £28 ($56) CHEAPER and
Gigabyte Z87X-D3H £50 ($100) CHEAPER. so not sure whats better?

RAM -

16GB Corsair 1866mhz Vengeance Pro (2x8GB)

My 2 other options are "16GB Corsair 2400mhz Dominator (4x4GB) £105 ($210) more"

or

"32GB Corsair 1866mhz Vengeance Pro (4x8GB) £150 ($300) more"

Hard Drive -

Plextor 256GB M5S SSD

They don't have the Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA listed but I can phone them and ask or will they both do the same thing? they are both the same price.

Additional Storage -

1TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s

No help needed here.

Graphics card - 2 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB

My orignal idea was to get the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Phantom, everyone who I asked said get this over 2 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB, however I didn't say the price difference. If I get the GTX 780 it will cost me £152 ($304) more than x2 GTX 760's which is a lot of money.

so what do you think?

Sound card -

Onboard 7.1 Audio.

There are other options, not sure if its worth it?

Asus Xonar DGX PCI-E 5.1 £28 ($56) more

or well the others are £50 ($100) more

PSU -

850W Corsair TX V2

However If i was to get the GTX 780 this should be fine however If I get x2 GTX 760's should I get a more powerful GPU,

Options are 850W Corsair HX Modular £33 ($66) more

Currently this comes to with the options I have in place £1,485 but I can go over or under a bit.
So thanks for taking your time and helping. Jon




 

maurelie

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http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1Wo3P
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£173.59 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P SE2 54.4 CFM CPU Cooler (£49.88 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Hero ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£158.00 @ Aria PC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£122.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£128.69 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£63.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card (£414.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master Storm Scout 2 ATX Mid Tower Case (£83.45 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: XFX 750W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£73.99 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-222BB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£15.75 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1285.26
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-02 17:52 GMT+0000)